"aimed for teenage girls crap" - obviously someone isn't bright enough to appreciate Buffy and is feeling a bit defensive.

AD&D 2nd Edition with D&D 3.5 math? That does sound like the ideal core onto which different modules (4E battle-grid combat, 3.5E skills, 2E kits, 1E zaniness) could be fitted into without too much hassle. I suppose people who really like Thac0s would be disappointed, but those people need help anyway.

These guys are doing it all wrong - obviously you need to kiss the girl and then scream "Fire!!!/Look out, he's got a weapon!/Why is Ryan Gosling kissing that girl?" as loudly as possible

My two cents: Karl Rove et. al. have told Rasmussen to fabricate some data to make Akin drop out of the race and Rasmussen (naturally) complied.

Well, we all know how much everyone loved the supersonic sky-sex when it was Buffy and Angel. On a personal note, though, I expect to see some lasso/kryponite powered BDSM or I'm not buying it.

Agreed - this really does read more like advice for a DM/GM than an author. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Obviously there is a systematic problem with the way lactation nurses are trained - I've come close to physical violence with two of them after two different pregnancies. There's really nothing worse than a fundamentalist who thinks their way is the only way and then bullies someone who is already in a…

Yes, for two reasons:

This sounds like a non-controversial idea, although I can easily imagine this same technology being used to commandeer and/or compromise "enemy" satellites.

"He went extinct [to fuel] our sins!"

You may be on to something there ...

Character is important, but the key to Whedon is also his ability to take something that seems funny and shallow and imbue it with surprising depth - he sneaks up on you with existential angst and tragedy while you're busy laughing.

The funny thing is, it's almost certain that Romney has always been anti-choice - he just found it necessary (and excusable in an ends-justify-the-means way) to lie when running for governor of Massachusetts. During the primaries, he let the mask slip a bit so that the anti-choice leaders would know he's on their side…

I'll see that and raise you a ....

I eagerly await the touching moment when the last dinosaur - toting his alien-compatible Mac laptop with a virus to disable the mother ship - wistfully bids farewell to Earth before his suicide mission. As a single tear rolls down his scaly cheek, a small mammal will scurry out of the underbrush and the noble beast…

How are they controlling for pre-existing mental illness in the abused children? I have always thought that parents faced with raising dysfunctional children might be more likely to resort to physical intimidation out of desperation. This is kind of like the causation vs. correlation problem, except that it seems…

Senator from New Hampshire paired with former governor from Massachusetts? Not going to happen on a Republican ticket.

Not as a character - she may have been mentioned without explanation (can't remember that well).

Intellectually, I know this answer is paternalistic and privileges my mental comfort over the life of my family - after all, they might choose suffering instead of death, too. Emotionally, the idea of facing suffering myself is so much easier than imagining my wife and kids starving and at the mercy of crazies…