My girlfriend is an emetophobe, which has probably been the only really difficult part of our relationship that's centered on her, and from what I understand (and @wafflicious:disqus can clarify whatever I get horribly wrong) it's not so much that it's unusual to have an aversion to vomiting, it's the irrational fear…

The answers to this question are like an emetophobe's worst nightmare.

I wish I had some nonprofit developmenty reason to support you banging this guy, but really you should just bang him. It sounds like he's playing it cool because he really likes you, and you just need to sit down with him, ask him if he does, and then, you know, bang him.

Unlike private companies, nonprofits are required to have boards. Because you're engaged in a public service, you have an obligation to provide the public with oversight, which can easily be met by having your Executive Director call up everyone she knows and asking who'd like to serve on the board.

I don't even know if education reform hews to political lines. Yeah, the right hated Race to the Top and Common Core, but those are the direct outgrowth of No Child Left Behind and the emphasis on testing it put out.

I don't know where atheism became a point of superiority thing. I assume it started with Marx tying it in as a point of control over the proletariat, and then ballooned out as Hitchens and Dawkins became powerful commentators just as the internet was becoming a thing, but it's fucking awful. Nothing makes me ashamed…

"84% of the [UK] public think that political correctness has gone mad, apparently. Now, I don't know if it has. People still get killed, don't they, for being the wrong color or the wrong sexuality or whatever.

I think it's like "eager" in that in can be applied with a negative spin.

The medical benefits thing is such a terrible argument. Nobody tried to overturn Prohibition on a "no, alcohol is actually awesome for you, why are you trying to deny cancer patients the ability to drink away the pain?" guilt argument.

To be fair, there are muscles under the breasts, which is hard to demonstrate in a cutaway viewed from the front of a human being.

I dunno. It's hard to say. Porn is a grey market—it exists in a legally ambiguous area, where it's technically illegal in the US under obscenity laws, but because no one can, objectively, differentiate obscenity from art, it can't really be outlawed. On top of that, it's taboo nature forces it to mimic and pretend to…

Years ago, when I was quite lonely, I paid for a year's subscription to one of the bigger sites. It was $99, and my credit card company called me to tell me that there'd been some unusual activity on my card and confirm that I paid for porn in the tightest tightrope walk conversation I've ever had, where they…

Hey, anything that gets Nudie back is okay by me.

I'll be playing, Waiting Desperately For Tuesday because that's the day Stellaris comes out!

A lot of the Ivies and other schools offer fairly generous financial aid packages to students from low-income households with low assets. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford all offer free tuition to students whose families make below a certain threshold, usually between $60,000 to $120,000 (for the $100K income,…

"There! Between this and Master of None, we'll make up for all the horrible Adam Sandler movies we're planning to make."

I think it's implied that Lyanna is beautiful, and that the supposed plainness of Arya's long face is that she's young and it's something she'll grow into. It's just a subtle, "hey, you know, what people are as little kids and what people are as they grow up are vastly different things, and not just because they…

I knew I should've read further before bitching about how little "Varys is a merman" gets play.

"Varys is a Merman" hasn't gotten enough play, and that was one of the ASOIAF boards best theories.

While filming The Professionals, Lee Marvin and Woody Strode shot Vegas Vic with a bow and arrow.