See, that's me. I actually get the logic of "more risk" if and only if tissue isn't being tested. But since not testing tissue might be a spectacularly bad idea for malpractice reasons, why would anyone reasonably accept "risk" as an excuse. Unfortunately you can't sue the FDA successfully for blocking the tissue. …

Maybe this is a New York thing, but I was out on this article the second the article informed me there were zero parks for dogs in the context of the story. How in the name of sweet, clean, baby Cthulu can tiny New York parks manage to shoehorn those things in with regularity and LA spends over $140 million and…

Why? Just curious. I could sort of see it, but given a lot of suspense in Clash of Kings is coming from Renly's camp being the X factor and later books allowing the Tyrell's to be an x factor to the Lannisters, do you not feel Loras would have given too much away?

"for the sake of it" in the context of HIS story would be bad. He's just plotted everything so tightly that if it showed up out of nowhere, it would look odd and forced. If he were writing something a bit more loose which left more to the imagination and relied less on the motivations of people in a serial manner,…

But is it really a good critique of this particular story? I can criticize "As Good As It Gets" for lack of suspense and how it fails as a classic thriller, but I'm criticizing it for being something that it is not. ASoIaF is not a story vehicle for sex scenes, so specifically looking at representation in sex…

My guess is Oberyn never becomes viewpoint because of how his story resolves with the Mountain. If we knew what his thoughts were going into that fight, whatever tension we might have felt for Tyrion would have been gone since we would know he'd fly off the handle.

Your opinion is fascinating but I'm not understanding the basis. What are you criticizing? His range or his actual acting ability?

I think that's because, as critics most of us are quite bad at it. And fans lob flaccid criticism at actors, actresses, writers and directors that spend months and years producing something they believe in or at the very least worked their ass off for only to read extremely douchy comments. People use the money…

Most people will believe it when the ratings actually go down. Right now, people have been bitching about GoT since season 1 and the ratings have only moved in one direction to the point that Jezebel gleefully recaps it every week. All my favorite characters died or were made irrelevant in the first 3 books. I like…

Strange thought that no one will agree with... but is this possibly the result of how the books are written themselves? We're reaching the point in the story where every position of major power in Westeros is very much controlled by women anyway. Tommen is a good kid but Cersei/Margery. Dany controls the other…

Agreed. Reading through the articles (specifically the part where the DA found insufficient evidence to move forward and the school's roughly similar finding) the civil courts may very well be the equalizer. Criminal courts have a high burden of proof by design and some schools may lack the experience or interest…

Ok that graph just made me laugh. Thank you for that. Protip: statistics don't work like that.

Well, there's no need for us to agree on that... different lenses and all. But I tend to put things through a "some people vs. most people" filter. Especially on a place like Reddit or Gawker sites where the entire story is coming from one side. I think it plays to some people's hot buttons which makes it…

It's primarily about CBA because that is a contract "signed" by two parties governing work. It's how in New York public employees in certain areas enjoy less protection than their private sector counterparts and more in others. Both parties signed it in good faith but it means some people can lose their job because…

What is true about Public Sector employees is true about the NFL: they are both collectively bargained. There is no "right to fire" in the NFL because they are governed by a collective bargaining agreement and the contracts that are signed aren't implied. They actually exist.

Wait... Politicians grandstanding a credentialed economist is news? This is a weird case of something so absolutely normal in Washington you can pretty much read anything you want into it.

Unless the couple is mostly asexual which does happen in both men and women and varies with age. Sexless marriage does work with some people because they are intimate different ways. The issue I see here is the mismatch.

Would it have been better? We don't know everything that preceded this other than what the Wife said happened in the e-mail. Are we sure this isn't a response to a different conversation? She describes this whole affair as "completely out of left field." Is that possible? Yes. Is it likely? Would most people…

Pretty much. I can dig maybe the guy is the reason she's not interested most of the time, but then maybe that's ALSO a conversation that should be had. Or maybe she has a libido issue. Or maybe his is so high that it comes off like a drug addict in need of a fix. But in the end, the guy chose to initiate the…

I'm actually shocked they floated UT Dallas as an option. The average enrolling student there has test scores and grades above the UT Austin campus average student.