I mean, people have always been sort of racist. Sometimes this stuff swells up, and sometimes it gets put on the back burner. But I don't think that the UK election is going to solve racism or anything like that. Truthfully, I think a lot of minorities would tell you that this last election wasn't even that much of…

Overextended analogies? On The A.V. Club? Why, I've never heard of such a thing (and am certainly not the principle propagator of them!).

Credit goes to Hellsing Abridged.

No, they're definitely not. The comparison was more personal; I definitely still feel uncomfortable enjoying OSC works.

We can get along with anybody . . . as long as they don't watch the Big Bang Theory. Certain things are just unforgivable.

Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah, the DUP was very closely related to several of the Ulster terrorist groups (I do research on Ireland, and hopefully I'll be moving their in a few months squeeee!). I thought you were saying that the DUP and the IRA were on the same side, which was why I was confused.

Well, fuck all manner of duck.

Funnily enough I can't empathize with this when it comes to Polanski, but I feel that way about Orson Scott Card. I don't know, it just seems like child rape crosses a line you can't ignore.

Rich white man triumphs over justice. Fixed it for you.

I think the Supreme Court has ruled that there are limitations to how executions are done, because they have to avoid "cruel and unusual punishment".

For me #3 is the most important one, though I would add the caveat that they have to present a clear and potentially deadly threat to society as a whole.

intelligent, interesting, and well-informed

Sorry if I'm misinterpreting where you're coming from here. Maybe it would be more fair for me to say that this is my criticism about how Bill Maher tends to talk about Islam, and by proxy I was criticizing you because I was under the impression that you were defending him? Certainly I agree that religion shouldn't…

Preach! Speaking as a Bengali (well, half a Bengali, watered down through four generations of American mall-shopping suburbanites) . . . our traditional clothing has women going topless. Saudi Arabia this ain't.

But religions don't do things, because religions are abstract concepts. It seems a lot more relevant to address what people are thinking or doing, and people are individuals. You talk about how Muslim women have to be covered up at all times, but the vast majority of Muslims don't follow that. And you could make a…

Out of curiosity, and I don't mean this disparagingly, but was that more of a way to rile people up and stoke fundraising or does she seem legitimately concerned? I hate to even ask that, because it makes me sound like one of those "both parties are bad" folks. I totally get why politicians need to say stuff like…

Yeah, I think that the contention that a Bengali doctor has just as much in common with a Wahabbi Arab as two NRA member might have in common with each other; that itself speaks volumes about how people look at Muslims and other Middle Eastern or South Asian minorities. It's so ludicrous, you have to wonder if the…

I think that interactions with those types of systems are deeply personal though, and if you're profiling, it's not really taking that into account. For example, I'm a fourth generation American, an openly bisexual guy who's slept with a lot of other guys, and a mixed race Hindu. Yet I get treated poorly by a lot of…

But a lot of readers read the comments, even if they don't comment themselves.

Wait? What? WHY THE FUCK?