I was talking to my wife about this the other day - with Netflix streaming, it's very easy to compare the quality of 80s cartoons to more recent series. That comparison is rarely flattering to the older shows, even if my three kids will occasionally blow through one of them for a change of pace.

Translation: "We're not saying it's hopeless ... but it's hopeless."

"But clearly, given that nearly 2 in every 100 persons is a psychopath, they can't all be bad — otherwise society would have completely imploded by now."

Well, yes - one could ignore the article and just use this space to discuss one's personal life without passing judgment on anyone else's or the issue of pornography in general. I wouldn't classify that as the typical debate that too often accompanies stories like this - which, more often than not, seem to start when…

Is answering in the affirmative not allowed? After all, the basis of this "discussion" is a hopelessly flawed study proving only that people who dislike porn tend to dislike it - not a productive basis for anything other than people making sweeping generalizations based on anecdotal evidence. Or is there some…

Please not another porn debate - there's just nothing good that can come from this. Why can't people just say, "I do/don't like porn, but understand that some people feel differently and that's fine."

Mystical deaths are usually no problem to undo, but unfortunately someone went and broke the last Urn of Osirus after buying it off eBay.

I won't get a Kindle until they stop making (or severely overprice) print books - between the shady licensing that makes you rent what should be your property and the inevitable energy crash, I don't think digital books are a good long-term bet. And that's my professional opinion as someone who works at a press…

I am incapable of selling/lending/trashing a book after reading it. It doesn't matter what kind of book, whether pulp or classic literature - excepting kid's books (i.e., anything written for children under 6). Fifteen years ago my wife and I counted our books and were approaching 3,000 - and that was before we…

Yes, but it does end - even if it's ten years later and you've managed to become one of the world's experts on something about which only three people care (two of whom will be dead within a decade).

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.