Whether or not the entire party is socially conservative or homophobic is irrelevant to the point that they, and no other party, attempted to 're-open' the debate on marriage equality. The fact that they figured out it was political suicide to do so is also irrelevant to the beliefs of their party members in…

"My god! They had a free and open debate on a contentious social issue! In the house of commons of all places!"

Yeah. The Harper Conservatives who tried a couple of times in the early months of his minority government to 'reopen the debate' on marriage equality, and were shot down when it was made clear that both Parliament and Canadians weren't interested in it.

Of course, that has a lot more to do with the fact that we ousted the Liberals who put into place the same-sex marriage legislation and installed Dead-Eye Harper instead.

The walrus has diabeetus?

I was just about to say... if your gas sounds like that, there is something terribly wrong with your GI tract.

Absolutely. Epidemiologists are really worried that diseases like measles, which was previously declared eliminated from the US, could resurge if the anti-vaccination movement continues growing. It has the potential to make other diseases, like influenza, more dangerous as well, because the people that are at highest…

"I gotta say though, having a Kindle really has been great for the "great book with horribly embarrassing cover" problem I had with most sci fi/fantasy books."

They really don't.

I recommend listening to this podcast if you'd like to hear a clear, aimed-at-the-layperson explanation of the papers;

Even better, a lovely Kotaku commenter by the name of blueTunic has come up with two addons for one's internet browser that modify the Gawkerverse into something approximating the old system!

They must've figured out how to delay aging in the Disney Genetic Engineering labs.

The problem with that comparison being that this game isn't dealing with the atrocities in Africa and India and elsewhere, but a war between two largely English-speaking, European and 'civilized' groups. That's not to say that warfare between European states during this time period was a genteel and harmless thing,…

Did you seriously just compare the British to Nazi Germany? Really?

You're quite welcome! :) Though this is a couple of centuries off (ie in Shakespeare's time), this Open University Youtube clip on the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's works might give you a taste of what it could have sounded like. (Hopefully the Youtube link works)

"I will be honost with you, but getting tard and feathered and running away to Canada does not sound like a fun game. "

AFAIK, the accents during this time period were a bit strange. The modern 'British' family of accents as we know them developed after the divergence between America and Britain; the American family of accents retained a lot of 'archaic' pronunciations, while British English developed on its own, separate path. I'm not…

It may interest you to know that there were significant numbers of American colonists who actually sided with the British leading up to and during the War for Independence; they were known as the United Empire Loyalists, or more commonly as just Loyalists. Most of the estimated 70 000 Loyalists fled to what is now…

Blargh. Not entirely sure why that didn't work, but here it is again, just in case;