How about the idea that when food consumption changes such that obesity becomes the norm, people's pre-existing genetic advantages become MORE apparent, not less apparent?

This, exactly.

"It had nothing to do with genetics . . ."

Hey, look! An asshole!

"How self-centered would we be as humans to believe that we are the only living things in the universe," she said of her belief in extra-terrestrials.

Points in favor of the song: Aloe Blacc's voice kinda sounds like a male Tracy Chapman; makes me think of "Your Song" by Elton John.

That's probably because "hitting another person is wrong" is self-evident to anyone over the age of three.

Well, the sentence immediately after that is "It's like saying, 'why do you think people should breathe?'" That sounds pretty universal to me.

I just flipped through the articles concerning the fight. Literally no one has contended that Solange did no wrong. The closest thing to that sentiment was a piece about the complex feelings one can have about siblings, particularly sisters, which stated something more akin to "Solange's anger, depending on its…

Way to take down the inauthentic, movie-watching, Margaret Mead-reading tribal society enthusiast and Orientalist that you've built totally out of straw.

Is it seriously your contention that no men ever threaten, abuse, or otherwise engage in bad behavior after being rejected by women, or conflate "yes, you may have a…

Somewhere, Belair's viral marketing people are all high-fiving one another.

The "ideology" is honest and exceedingly simple.

Well, the difference is between an assertion of an opinion about one's self and an assertion of an opinion about the nature of the world.

Here's my take on MacFarlane's work.

Yeah. There are a lot of people with serious problems out there. It's frightening.

Chris Thile threw out a pretty killer first pitch a few years ago.

The gender-reversed scenario is one where the guy buys the girl a drink, and she has to be very careful in how she handles rejecting his sexual advances in case he's the type of man who assaults or abuses women who don't fall over themselves to hand out sex in exchange for a drink. That's what I'm getting at.

Exactly. I hope chal12na reads this and grows in his understanding a bit.

"feeling like no one attracted to you and people think you're a creep sucks."

"your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."