All of Labyrinth is disturbingly sexual - David Bowie's creeping, the masked ball (come on - you know it's a a metaphorical orgy), the Fireys, the Helping Hands, etc.

I know this is completely beside the point and deserves to be buried in the comment section click-fest hell, but: "machete-wielding karate knight with a carnivorous goat sidekick" - is this a real thing (cartoon, comic, or other)?

I think stoprobbers point was that there is a lot of books that deal with feminist themes perfectly appropriate to this site that are not traditional "lady!books" (although I don't feel quite so dismissive of those) - especially sci-fi. Hell, I always figured that the title of this site was at least partly indebted to…

I would think that the robot who thinks non-human entities (corporations) deserve equal rights might be better at dealing with aliens. Think of the potential for out-sourcing!

I do the same thing - my guess is that the counting system used by my immigrant great-grandparents (Italy mostly, but also Sweden and the Ukraine) has been passed down without being influenced by North American norms. I can't imagine this is too unusual, either, given that most people are counting on their hands…

Part of the charm of it for me is that there is no good reason for these movies to exist except as a romantic gesture.

I really love the Resident Evil movies - they just seem so romantic to me. What we have is a director making movies in which his wife is not only a bad-ass zombie killer but also the ultimate apocalypse survivor. In my head I can hear him saying, "no matter how horrible the world becomes, my wife is awesome enough to…

But surely they will see that single parents are 50% less likely to screw up their children. You can't argue with The Math!

The Holy Spirit can also be depicted as flames, which might cover the second image above. There is also the long-standing tradition of the heaven being in the heavens - meaning that saints/angels occupy the planets/stars (see Dante's Paradiso).

When there's no bread, there must be more circuses.

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).