I think it's about the relationship between society and women.. when you're objectified, you also in some sense become sacred and therefore taboo..

Does someone need to have the conversation about the difference between boy cows and girl cows?

Have you looked into the tiny house movement? There are ways you can get around having to rent huge places, even if there are laws on the books against houses being too small (there are in many states, but do not apply to things with wheels).. A lot of people have started building their own tiny houses utilizing basic…

The UK has free birth control, easily obtainable even for a teenager without a parent's permission. Rates of abortion are lower than the US, despite not having a lot of complex laws against abortion (as there are in the states). Funny how, when the state is paying for all medicine, it becomes a good risk to pay for…

" Would you say if he was a hetero married to his wife, if he never had sexual relations with her, yet molested boys up until 2010, do you actually think a track record of exclusive same sex relations for 17 years actually makes Sandusky gay ? "

I actually think this is happening organically anyway. I'm aware of the language history you talk about, and the fact that essentially, up to the introduction of the first dictionaries, (I'm looking at you Samuel Johnson) people did essentially spell phonetically, or according to however they felt on that particular…

Why? By their own definitions it won't really be rape..

Is it wrong that I really want to get a strap on, and go find these guys, and illegitimately rape them? Just so they, you know, get the damn point already?

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Would depend entirely on when you're planning on visiting. I don't want to go through the 80's again for example, they were horrific enough the first time around.

I would like to inform you that with this comment, you have officially won the internets. Congratulations.

Yeah, me too.. right of left is right, surely? or center at the best?

Color grading is your friend, Io9 video makers.

Yeah, pretty much the same here.. hate the new comment system, and the headline made no sense related to the article.

I can't actually believe this is real. I watch the video, and I just think someone is having me on, somehow.

The weird thing is, that even among fairly well read people in the scifi genre, a lot have never read any Le Guin, or in some cases even heard of her, yet to me, she's definitely someone who refutes the idea that all genre fiction is bad writing.

There's a really interesting Ted talk on this very subject. http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken.html

There's another Clarke book, written with Stephen Baxter, called "The Light of Other Days" -http://www.amazon.com/Light-Other-Days-Arthur-Clarke/dp/0765322870/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1341008850&sr=8-2&keywords=light+of+other+days

Did hatmakers frequently suffer from STD's? I mean, that one has a fire-ey crotch if I've ever seen one.