He wore a dress; he flaunted a major puppet boner and he sang live. Sigh, I miss David Bowie (though I'm glad he's unretired himself recently.) More than that, I miss the risk-taking that happened before autotune and the complete co-opting of rock music by corporations—i.e. back when there actually were a bunch of…

In the U.S., a substantial gap remains—nearly 5 years. Combine that with the average husband/wife gap of three years and you're looking at 8 years of widowhood. You also get countries like Russia where the life expectancy gap is 11 years—thanks to vodka. China has a similar issue with tobacco—Chinese men smoke;…

Well, yes, not what you'd call a healthy relationship. I really liked the movie though as well as the real life epilogue of Juliet becoming a successful mystery writer.

Thing is, he's got kids, so it's no longer just about the couple, but about a family.

I hear they're good with enough hot sauce.

Even if you're married and heteronormative, the fact of the matter is that if you're a woman, you'll probably outlive your (probably older) husband, quite possibly by by a lot. Regardless of orientation, I think the closest relationships for a lot of older women are with other women. (Golden Girls, anyone?)

As a migraine sufferer, I really want that to be the case. Sex is supposed to be good for migraines . . . though my experience with all migraine treatments is sometimes they work and other times they really, really don't.

I wonder, though, if that's because female/female friendship is considered "normal"—it's expected that girls have BFFs and women will look to one another for emotional support as a matter of course.

Didn't Colette write about this couple?

Yep. Hollywood claims it can't put Asian-Americans in leads because they're not box-office pulls, while never giving Asian-American actors a chance to become box-office draws. So a convenient self-fulfilling prophesy.

Eh. Angelina Jolie when she was younger was my pick for the major—she has that mask-like/surreal quality that works for the part—if the Major was going to be Hollywoodized, but ScarJo is okay. Not excited about seeing her in the role, but then I like GITS in all its anime forms.

But if there's going to be a…

The law doesn't put those kind of limits in this kind of situation—the nephew didn't use a weapon and the creepy uncle's still alive. Fact is, though, if the nephew had killed the uncle, he'd be more likely to go to trial, but he'd probably still get off. Basically, some situation create a "just cause." Stopping an…

No, not an assault if you're stopping an assault. Given that the uncle was allegedly in the act of raping the girlfriend, there's just cause for pulling him off and putting him in the kind of condition where he no longer poses a threat.

No, you're allowed to get physical when you're defending someone else/stopping an assault.

Frog Princess was Disney's big push for that. Unfortunately, it didn't make the money Disney expected, so that's why we haven't seen Disney do it more recently. Disney did have a run with POC heroines—Jasmine, Mulan, Pocohantas, Lilo (though she wasn't a princess), while Cinderella was played by Brandy in a remake…

I doubt it. Writing off this woman's pain because you think her beliefs are wrong and contributed to her child's suicide is narrow-minded and cruel. Lots of parents don't deal well with their kids coming out as gay or trans. The lucky ones get a second chance and some of them become good, supportive parents.

You…

I'm taking into account the information in the link referred to by Idleworm, which does indicate issues with the terms of Randi's offer.

I hate to say this, but I've read your comment a couple of times now and both your first and second sentences don't make much sense. Both are garbled.

I had a friend in med school and she started to tell me about how to spot various plastic surgery "tells"—and, wow, there's a lot of it out there. And it is weird—people will look good at first, then as the surgery becomes less subtle it starts to look strange and, then, just kind of bad in its own way. It often…

Yeah, years ago when I was interested in such things, I read some essays by Doyle defending various spiritualists and it's sort of sad just how much a man that bright wanted to believe despite his own intelligence. Professional magicians, like Harry Houdini, were much more astute about how people can be fooled.

Well, why not use scientific methods and standards to do this? Why not use empiricism? Anything less takes away the legitimacy of the enterprise.