I’m still not allowed to! My wife says they trigger migraines!

Oh, Nancy Kress is awesome. I'm going to pick that one up! She'll be a SFWA grandmaster one day, guaranteed.

That was a high price to pay for a few extra “likes” on Facebook.

My personal belief is that if you have institutionalized policies and social conditions that stack the deck against minorities and force them into ever tightening corners, then yes, it is conceivable, probably inevitable that instead of politely starving in a corner, they will commit more crime.

They do seem a bit slow on the draw today. It’s been over 5 minutes since the article was published and the grey pit isn’t a seething maw of vitriol and faulty reasoning yet. I’m sure someone will roil the soup by the time I’m finished typing, though.

Cue the cesspool of imbeciles saying: “See! This proves how it’s blacks and Mexicans committing all the crime!”

When we recently got a cat, I was surprised to learn that “kitty litter” is a trademarked name as well.

Most guys just buy a sports car...

It should have been effective too. I think men appreciate when their SO is sexually available; but that added element of being seductive is really good for keeping the furnace extra hot.

It shows you what a double-edged sword technology is. On the one hand, I’ve come to loathe that at a party, the wall is lined with people tweeting and texting; to say nothing of the idiots who do it at the movies and plays.

Don’t let it exasperate you, though, Anna. The great black hole paradigm of ignorance that lies at the center of the Internet is that it is, itself, an idiot savant. It has no memory, it has no connection with the past, it has no way of saving people like these from Santayana’s warning. It has gulled them into…

As a card-carrying member of the straight-male club, let me say that was an awesome, and very erotic attempt you made. Would have turned me to jelly if the wife did that number!

She looks like she was poured into it.

I realize that, good sir. Problem is, they weren’t coming to the anime conventions back in the nineties. Very few of them were watching “those Chinese cartoons” back then. I blame lack of Internet.

True, but it's a pretty insensitive fantasy. I'd certainly be ashamed to admit to it. Also, one of the women married him in a prison ceremony.

I’m glad my parlance has such appeal to you, Nick. Here’s one just for you:

The most disturbing thing about the Night Stalker is the horde of female fans he had. I read a book about him, and in one chapter the author interviews some of the women who worshiped this guy, and fantasized about being violently raped by him. One woman recounted her fantasy in lurid, gory detail. It made my gorge…

*strokes his chin and nods thoughtfully*

Why can’t anybody request the footage? My hunch is that if the footage went viral before a judge for whatever reason, valid or invalid, decided that it was inadmissible as evidence, the jury pool would already be contaminated.

Oh, kiddo. This country has been a cesspool of imbeciles for a long time.