Here's one answer to the last objection from a recent Dinosaur Comics strip: [www.qwantz.com]

I completely agree and also completely fail to see a problem.

It sometimes seems like the sum total of schools who call themselves "the Harvard of the ..." is roughly equal to the number of universities in the US minus 8.

And so it came to be that the construct known as Mitt Romney found the final ingredient to achieve personhood, just like his beloved corporations.

Next week I might have something better to do with my time. I already know that I'm wasting my time today on Gawker sites and feeling guilty about it.

This problem reminds me of that feature in Google's Picasa in which the program identifies what it thinks are people's faces and asks you to name them - then it starts guessing the identities of the people in the pictures. Similar to this is that Google Image Labeler game: sure, it would be hard for one person to tag…

Or is it?

If I were running Romney's campaign:

The usual MO around my house: wait until the day you should be starting a new pack of pills and then call your doctor saying that you really need an extension on your prescription called into the pharmacy immediately - and sure, let's go ahead and schedule that exam (oh dear, how could I have forgotten? Bad on me).

Oh, I know (currently midway through Buffy 6/Angel 3 during a re-watch). This was just my lame attempt to reference the semi-popular glasses fetish in porn.

Perhaps this movie explains why Giles' glasses are always in need of cleaning.

Zombie dragons (dracolich?) are definitely the worst.

I would argue that the desire to emulate physical attractiveness is a sexual desire - the men on these covers are being objectified, just differently (i.e., they are being presented as idealized dominants in the same way women on these covers are idealized submissives).

I'm sorry that you misunderstood me - my main point was: "we're confusing dominant/submissive with power/sexiness binaries." This in no way refutes the overall message of the article, but simply points out that it's all about sex and sexual power dynamics.

"2.) Male poses do not generally emphasize sexuality at the expense of all other considerations.

Given your Dr. Who-inspired screen name implies a certain level of comfort with sci-fi/fantasy in addition to erotica, my quick recommendation would be the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey (at least the first six books).

Spooning can be good - if it's not vaginal and toys are involved.

But she's not dead at the end of the first series - although Azula's grandchild might make more sense (new villain = 30 years old = Azula having a kid way too old; new villain = 30 years old = Azula having a kid at 25 and her kid having a child around the same time).

My money would be on Azula's child - someone with a crazy mother and a vengeful grandfather.

Old English? As someone with a PhD in medieval English, saying that Coleridge wrote in Old English just about made me cry.