Yet another reason for campaign finance reform. Awfully hard to ignore lobbyists if they threaten to donate to your opponent's campaign.

It’s not shady at all unless she can produce evidence that she asked for and he agreed for her email to be off the record. Standard journalistic practice in every single industry. She knew she was talking to a journalist, and as the head of a foundation like this, she’s dealt with the press before and knows how this…

Would you include Hergé in your Belgian grouping? I thought Blue Lotus was well done for its time, and I know it was originally going to be loads more racist Chinee until he met a Chinese exchange student who straightened him out on stereotypes vs reality.

What? I don’t doubt that Taiwanese have particular issues fitting in, but the standard language in Taiwan, the official language of news, government, education, etc, is pretty much Mandarin. They call it 国语 GuoYu, ‘national language’, rather than the mainlander 普通话 PuTongHua, ‘common speech’, and there are some…

I heard a story on NPR a couple days ago about the infrastructure and bureaucracy Daesh has created for the trafficking and sale of Yazidi women (and I imagine any other ‘infidel’ they can get their hands on, like Kayla, though the Yazidis are considered especially ‘fair game’ because Daesh sees them as polytheistic…

Really? Maybe this was a Mac only thing, but the copy of TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM I had definitely had dynamic music that changed based on the battle situation.

Excluding the ear and neck? Done properly, foreplay in those areas is fantastic! With you on the ice cubes though.