I think we all learned an important lesson today. That maybe Venture Bros. season 6 was really inside us all along.

I'm actually okay with the last few seasons, taking into consideration the broader tendencies of Doctor Who as a series. When you go back and watch the Davies era, and even Old-Who series, the arcs were never seamless, the hooks were never sensible, and quality always varies. Moffat had the misfortune of making a…

My vote goes to CCH Pounder, either as River, or for the next Doctor, or maybe new Bond.

Politically, I fall pretty far to the left of most people. My girlfriend and I recently had a minor argument about welfare issues (she takes a pretty dim view towards some welfare recipients, particularly those who don't work. I'm more of a welfare state, guaranteed-minimum-income kind of guy). It was maybe the first…

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Counterpoint, though: they at least knew to mark 'Arab' and 'Muslim' as distinct categories. That deserves some credit, right?

I don't know if you're using 'ironically' literally or figuratively in this context.

But this one will be for girls!

Actually, it's the product of Percival Lowell misinterpreting Giovanni Schiaparelli's use of the word canali to describe certain features of the Venice, CA surface. Lowell took these observations (and strange features which appeared in his own study) to indicate that it harbored complex, intelligent life forms.

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I have no frame of reference for understanding this, and am both fascinated and discomfited.

The first time I read about all the miraculous hoops the priests had to jump through to turn wine into metaphysical blood, all I could think is that God sounds like the kludgiest programmer ever.

Isn't part of the miracle (i think there are multiple miracles involved in the communion, but I'm working from half-remembered philosophy class here) the fact that the wine becomes the literal blood of Christ without assuming the literal properties of blood (like the taste and texture).

Aww, I like the uke. It's nice.

I liked that article. Obviously, the conversation on racism doesn't necessarily want for one more white guy to try and throw his opinion into things, but it is worthwhile to understand how the mechanisms of racism work on individuals.

There are a lot of interesting generational shifts around the issue, and my perspective is probably skewed by growing up in a late adoption area of the US.

I understand where you're coming from with it, and I saw how my original comment could be ambiguous on the point. No hard feelings.

Yes I do?

I think you may have taken my comment to be more dismissive towards the new attitude than I meant it to be. I'm sorry if I sounded pissy about the shift, that certainly wasn't what I was going for.

As a 4channer, I promise you we hate these tools as much as anyone else.