ah i should have edited that. I meant that most developing nations you
don't get to go to a hospital, and historically they have gotten away
from it because getting to one is such a problem for huge chunks of the
populace. Many births are at home or a clinic.

Thinking through Jonas' bit about killing. I wonder if it wasn't the point that non-Sensates are just killers, but that it is a whole lot easier to do. He notes that evolution is parsimonious (which scientifically speaking is true). Tweak a chromosome and you get a Neandertal. The difference between us and chimpanzees…

Most places don't do hospital birth anymore, and in the developing world they never really did.

possible, though I hadn't heard one way or the other. Girls on Film wasn't released in the US for a year or so (the 1981 version didn't chart here) but I looked it up and saw that it came first in the UK.

More power to him then, Schools were pretty messed up in the 80s and I remember they had to shut down English early one year because they couldn't keep the lights on. My parents got us out of Lynn for high school because it was just so bad. Curious what your uncle taught and how he survived it.

TO add to @vivekramkumar:disqus - there's a longstanding issue in India with secularization generally. You have to remember there are laws in India about agitating religious people because of the horrible conflicts that basically tore the country apart in the 40s, that's why Pakistan exists at all.

You can track down the original video on DailyMotion (YouTube's nudity policy is definitely violated here, though I did see the uncensored version of "Bullet Hits the Bone" on YouTube so go figure). It's pretty tame by today's standards, lots of lens flaring to blur out the nudity even though there's still a lot of…

Another one who remembers FNX! (The Boston Phoenix folded, that's why the station went away). Yay!

well, sure, we recognize "thee" and "thou" as alternatives for "you" and people will understand you if you say "Confound it!" and "I think that's keen" but I haven't heard of anyone under 70 say someone is "deaf and dumb," you know?

I don't think most folks (American English speakers anyway) use the term "dumb" to mean "not capable of speech" anymore.

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I loved Wolfgang's role in Lito's storyline. His skill becomes pretty obvious-not just the fighting, but the personality that lets you fight and take a punch and not get hung up on hurting. Not everybody has that sheer bull-headedness. And sometimes the utter ruthlessness that you need to be a survivor.…

If it helps here's a NYT story on this very point:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015…

Wait the Bay Guardian is gone? Oh, shit. Man I remember trying to come up with stories I could pitch there…

and what i liked was that in one ep two sensates were smart enough to exchange a phone number. (I get that language barriers might come up in some cases, though Wolfgang and Kala both presumably speak English, Sun might not and it isn't at all clear Lito does either. Cepheus does, he said as much),

Something that struck me about Nomi and Amanita's story (and maybe I am biased) but if Nomi wanted to F things up for the conspirators and Metzger, I would tell her to call the local paper. If I were working at the SF Schron or East bay Express or SF Weekly and some person called and said, "there's a doctor doing…

No it isn't sore at all. 267 is a win if you get any of several small states that don't close until late: Hawaii is one. (And if you are a Democrat it is kind of a gimme). Nevada is another. Some Eastern states don't close the polls until the evening (NY is one, and I think Rhode Island?). Depending on what side of…

I stand corrected! Thank you.

As @daedalus_x:disqus notes the concessions aren't binding. I could concede an election too early and then say, Florida comes in or New Hampshire and I find out I won, and then legally I am president, full stop.

Dunno about the ones you had but on ours it wasn't a sharp blade, it was more a thick piece of metal sliding against the base — that is, you couldn't cut yourself on it easily, like a guillotine. It was more the pressure from two adjacent blocks, Still not good though if someone slammed it down on you.

"You will not share your mangoes."