I would really like to see apropos of this discussion a couple of things:

Um, what is "a method designed to be burdensome?" I mean, she makes a video taking apart sexist tropes — and the videos are pretty simple, 101 level stuff (as I understand it that is what they are supposed to be in the first place). So what burden does that place on anybody, anywhere?

The first problem (from a pure logic/ philosophy end) is that no matter how bad you ractual death is, heaven is (by definition) infinitely good. That means there is nothing on Earth, nor can there be, that is anywhere near as wonderful or makes you as happy. Conversely, it means there is no suffering on Earth that…

Here's a reason I don't think Christians actually believe in heaven:

Jesse Orosco came close, no? He was 46. But unlike Franco he wasn't playing infield.

Apropos of @dirtside:disqus
's later stuff, every single piece of classic literature is chock full
of rape (the Iliad and the Odyssey, Metamorphoses, the Bible has a rape
scene in just about every other chapter). But you aren't going to say "I
can't like the Odyssey and enjoying it is morally objectionable."
That's…

Short answer: no.

As I recall (and looking it up) the Germans had more planes, something like twice the force the French and Brits combined had, and the French tank force was larger, but yes, they used them poorly and couldn't conceive of the Germans trying to get through the Ardennes. But I still would stand by the comment that the…

I think the issue is just plain historical inaccuracy.

You'd be amazed. I had study halls where the teacher didn't care what we did as long as it was relatively under control. I had some oddly deep conversations with people in there, though the crossing of social barriers wasn't as apparent (I went to a relatively small school, though, there were some 200 students in my…

Actually he saved the company before any of the i-product line came about. The thing that Apple does is retain control of hardware and software design; this is different from the PC world (formerly known as "IBM PC clones"). PCs still generate a ton of money for IBM via licensing. IBM said "fuck hardware, licensing is…

Don't worry— I kept it between the songs. :-) (There was a sort of funny Kevin Nealon SNL skit about just that by the way). In the days prior to CD players and when you were cueing up records on a turntable you really couldn't get on during the songs anyway, since the mike — mine anyway — we hit the switch to cut out…

Apropos of @Cerusee:disqus - Raccoons are not rodents, they are procyonids. Related to kinkajous and coatis. Not to be confused with Procyonids that look like ankylosaurs.

The rest of their lives? I vaguely remember them all dying in a train crash, was that what you refer to? (IIRC they all die and end up in Narnia?)

I was rather squarely in the generation that this movie was aimed at (roughly) and I was actually doing college radio when it came out.

I actually read Freaky Friday the first time not terribly long after it came out; say, the early 1980s(?) I must have been in fifth or sixth grade, anyway. So only the Jodie Foster film was around by then and I never saw it. I remember liking the book.

I think you have to be careful that you don't fall into the respectability politics problem.

> is the greater than sign, so that's ok I guess.
ex: 8 > 5

I actually liked the origin story they used here. The idea that Reed was telling Victor, "hey, a little error checking" and Victor is scarred by the fact that he actually had confidence in Reed's work.

You mentioned that if people had the means or technology to do something they would do it; we're trying to point out that that isn't the whole story. Usually the implication is that people in whatever country just weren't entrepreneurial or bright enough or whatever, or that it's all down to market forces (which is…