The original series did an episode on facilitated communication being junk in 1995 - Season 5, Episode 19, “Cruel & Unusual”. I don’t think it had the rape aspect, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the episode.

When I was four, and my mother was pregnant with my sister, she just gave me a copy of “A Child Is Born” by Lennart Nilsson. I had the technicalities down and don’t ever remember not knowing what traditional PIV sex was. The other stuff, however - foreplay and “non-traditional” sex - I had to learn about that on my…

My mom was convinced we’d all have to get a barcode tattoo that the government would use to track us, or something? And it’s somehow connected to the Mark of the Beast (because Clinton was the anti-christ, at the time). I think Sliders even had an episode with a similar premise, but the memory’s hazy because I only…

Man, I hope Google Fiber takes in Jacksonville. So far, all of its trial cities have worked out, but it would be so Duval County to be the first to fail.

It’s fairly usable on a computer, in a browser. The only issue I’ve had is the occasional ad claiming it’s blocked, even when I’ve disabled the adblock software. That doesn’t happen often, though. It is like regular Hulu Plus, where there are ads even though it’s a paid service. The Roku app works pretty well, no…

but if there had to be a plot, David Boreanaz didn’t need to be anywhere near it.

The rest of the campus was fairly co-ed. It was the Chi-O house with the strict rules, as a result (they claimed) of the Bundy killings. For the rest of the campus, “Man on the Hall” tended to be used to embarrass little brothers (as siblings do).

Same here - no men in the Chi O house except male relatives (and you had to yell “Man on the Hall”), and even then you had to let the other sisters know in advance, and usually only on moving day. This was at a small women’s college in North Georgia, which did allow boyfriends in the dorms.

My parents didn’t know how the channel block worked, and were really pissed when I blocked them from some network they really liked watching (I don’t remember which one it was) - just to be a jackass. But they also didn’t know how to program the VCR and were really appreciative when I set it for them, so it balanced…

Maybe there should just be a special GOP candidate edition of “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”. Although they’d probably whine that those were “gotcha” questions, too.

I don’t know if she was pregnant. Probably, but I didn’t know her very well. I do know she was very poor, and I don’t think it was rare enough for the news to care. That, and pre-social media, I’m not sure how they’d have found out unless someone specifically tipped them off the old-school way. Also, it was legal at…

I’m actually surprised that I only (personally) know two girls who were married while we were in school together. One, at least, was 18 and got married just a few weeks before graduation (and is now divorced). The other, though, was about 13, and we were in middle school. I remember that freaking me out when it…

When I was working at Target in 2000, we found three SNES systems (including a Zelda edition) in the electronics backstock room. They’d been clearanced to $10. That was a fun day.

I’d also accept Joel McHale as Booster Gold.

Looks like some dude that shops at Hot Topic too much.

Just for fun (and time killing), I looked up the writer. She has, like, 5 writing credits to her name on IMDB, and most of them are CSI: Cyber.

It’s nice to see the ASAN logo on their website, too, and not Autism Speaks. Although their “About” section seems to equate autism with diseases, like cancer, diabetes, and AIDS, which isn’t exactly accurate.

No driver’s ed in the schools where I grew up, but we did the private school for the insurance discount. Since I already had my license, the instructor just had me drive her around town to run her errands. I do recall that, in the time before cell phones, we had a lot of 16-year-old kids in the county die in car…

What I find hilarious (in that so-not-funny-it’s-awful way) is that my most Islamophobic relatives are the ones who want the US to run on religious laws. It’s exactly what they think Muslims want, except, you know, the Christian version.