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Truly, truly outrageous.

I dunno, the fact that a studio could make Rataouille, Wall-E, Up, Toy Story 3, and then produce a blatant toy commercial with Lawrence the Telecom Shitheel is pretty fucking depressing.

They'll have to hire some more security, just tin case, to alloy people's fears.

It's kind of a shame that there aren't any more Lord of the Rings movies in the works, because can you imagine what Colbert would do if he didn't even have to maintain the facade of a character who is not entirely about JRR Tolkien?

You're not fooling me, Archmage! You're playing fast and loose with these mechanics!

Contingency only lasts a day per caster level! What do you think this is, some kind of game!?

You can't be Resurrected involuntarily, it's right there in the spell description. All it would do is expend the contingent spell.

This might be one of those areas where I have a bias without realizing it. I don't know what the trend is, big picture; more and more competitive activities (which could also be competitive parents pushing hard)? My peer group contains several people who want to see peewee football and soccer drawn back or put aside…

The problem I have is that the insistence on one-size-fits-all methodologies has already been applied to a lot of boys (and girls who happen to have similar personalities).

There are ways right now to look at what the effect is, how prevalent it is, and on what kind of scale it's taking place.

Your illustration of the effect is better than mine, but in broad terms, that's what I was getting at. "Cooperation" as in "willingness to work with rules/structures that keep the class sailing smooth."

Honestly, I don't think it's just a matter of code. There's some solid evidence that girls are just better at the sort of cooperative tendencies by which schools grade students (things conscientious behavior, setting/achieving specific goals, and self-regulation), tendencies which develop later and with more…

It makes me feel like Speed Racer, and that's all I ever wanted out of life.

I'm a little rusty on the deets, but I think the kid was the one pretending to fuck with said car.

I'm genuinely worried about the state of affairs wrt the social and emotional development of boys in their formative years.

Elizabeth Warren actually made the argument that having not just both parents, but one who stays home, is a better economic model for household economies.

I'm actually okay with Braff beating up a child, given the circumstances.

I think they've moved from outright dismissal to confused frustration with the politicking. If Stan in Cissy was the author surrogate, then we might say their position is "We have some questions about this, including what it means about our own identities, and how some people use or might use it for personal gain or…

We're going to work up quite Auschwitz.