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Benjamin Sapiens
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I found it condescending and almost cruel in its criticism of people who are making an honest effort to be decent and honest.

Checked out Night Physics. Afterward, I googled "Dramamine."

At least in the early episodes from the first season of the first series, the setting is very clearly Chinese, from Oolong's Maoist Chinese uniform to the karst topography (the domed peaks you always associate with China).

I like how all the members of Bulma's family are named after underwear.

Yeah, I got that sense from Max Dare's comment. That makes sense. It just seems like it would be a lot easier to manipulate the facial expressions and hand gestures if they weren't so incredibly tiny, but for any kind of large-scale set that would quickly become completely impractical.

They've got a few of them even is the fairly rural outskirts of Bangor and they all seem to work without a hitch.

Doesn't matter how great a song is: if they play it too often on the radio, it becomes a song that sucks.

"The mighty robots of Battlestar Galactica versus the gay robots of Star Wars."

Did people seriously say that?

It would also help if he wasn't so damn unnecessarily judgemental.

I love Maher's smugness when he's completely, utterly right about something.

*(It's also worth noting that studies have shown that the lower classes aren't actually any more bigoted than those above them; it's just that the more upper-class you are, the more tact you have in expressing your disgust at anyone who's different than you.

That’s not any kind of prejudice or bigotry, I’m just noting a fact. Beliefs like these are utterly moronic and usually at least a little sociopathic regardless of who holds them. Both conventional wisdom and sociology tell us that the lower classes are generally more conservative and ignorant and the upper classes

That's a pretty ridiculous ploy.

Can ya name the truck with four wheel drive,

I dunno. The guy did rail against the evils of civil rights and integration. Just because he was eloquent while doing it doesn't make any less of a neanderthal.

The main issue with the Obama Presidency and warfare is, as far as I can see, his drone strikes. The collateral damage on those is just too outrageously high, and there's fairly little accountability for innocent people killed (https://www.buzzfeed.com/mi… "No Criminal Charges For U.S. Military Members In Deadly

I came across a very interesting comment recently on why Trump could actually be the more dangerous candidate despite having a past history of liberalism and Cruz being a dedicated wingnut theocrat:

Synesthesia? That, of course, is a rather different phenomenon than simply having a gift for numbers, although (as Fresh Jive noted above) I suppose in some situations the former could enable the latter?