Also BTW: some states do have a 2-year rule (CT is one) so a high school student can't get arrested for taking his date to the prom and getting it on afterwards — which I think is OK, as adolescents have enough trouble exploring their sexuality without having to fear arrest.

I have to say that one of the things that gets me is people who rage against age of consent laws. Yes, they are imperfect, and yes they are sometimes terribly applied. (At least one case I can remember of the parents of an 18-year-old high school student who used such laws to go after him because he was dating their…

Humanity is the race that gave our own world Slobodan Milosevic, the Hutu Power Interhamwe, the Mongols, the SS, and the ordinary god-fearing folk who served under a certain Colonel Chivington and thought cutting off women's breasts and playing catch with them was a fine idea.

Jack Harkness used to do that sometimes. I miss him…

So why didn't he just put a bullet in the ground in front of her?

My favorite place name in the U.S. is Why, Arizona. Yes it exists and consists of a roadside cafe/ store/ gas station with a cow on top of it.

Turkmenistan really isn't in the Middle East so I guess it's all right then. But there aren't exactly loads of churches in Central Asia either.

I'm really curious about something, in terms of your moral calculus here.

I am happy to be corrected here; though I think it's worth noting that most of the time (the vast majority) the defendants in SYG cases are white. And the acquittal rate, as near as I can tell, seems to be much, much higher.

Apropos of the other commenters below, there are a couple of things going on.

I was wondering about that, as he said he went back to Scotland and he needed to get on a plane…

Something that nagged at me: Ichabod speaks with an "English" accent. But

OH, it's a song called Radioactive by The Firm, (yes I date myself) was what I was referring to, if you're interested:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I ask because I kind of wish they used The Firm's version as the theme for Firestorm. :-)

I'm glad to hear that, because honestly, I wanted them to break out the one by The Firm when they intro'd Firestorm. If you don't know it:

Do you mean the one by the Firm or the more recent one by Imagine Dragons (I think? It's such a silly band name…)

I also work as a journalist and so much shit with Iris made me angry because clearly the writers have no idea what we freaking do all day. The sports reporter Barry was involved with earlier was more convincing.

No, just earlier in the series. Example: she was mad about being asked to write Flash stories, but that was why they freaking hired her. I was hired at one place because I was the sole Spanish speaker; therefore when stories that needed a translator came up I bloody well offered. Because that was why they hired me.

Yeah she seems to be a reporter who would get fired at any place I worked at.

It was my grandfather. He married "out." He was studying to be a rabbi and then went to Colorado (it was some Great Depression /New Deal program to get kids from NYC and other urban areas to land grant schools) to the U of C, met my grandmother, who was Japanese. Things did not go well with the parents (at least his…