This gives me hope. When io9 released the news a few days ago that the rights to Octavia Butler’s Dawn had been optioned for television, I was worried that they might change the protagonist from a black woman in the book, to a white woman just because it might get more eyeballs. It is unfortunate that unless the…

Yup. It’s a gamble. But if you can’t get his balls, and you aren’t Ronda Rousey, clamping down on a chunk of some dude will cause him devastating agony without depleting your energy, and without requiring a lot of training on your part. It also leaves a nice identifying mark on the guy when you go to the police. But…

Nice work!

Well, it’s only if running isn’t an option. Plus, this lets you win the fight in a way that won’t completely deplete your stamina, so running will still be viable once you unclench your teeth.

I get scared when I am walking home at night because I am a girl who is bad at punching who also looks like she is bad at punching.

I hope people aren’t going to be Procrustean about what forgiveness means. It does NOT have to mean that you condone what was done to you, or that you don’t want justice pursued. For a lot of people it just means letting go of the rage and resentment you’re harboring.

Congressional hearings often remind me of my uncle, who thinks its cute, rather than infuriating when he says: “I’ve already formed my opinion, so don’t trouble me with facts!”

Any celebrity with Twitter and Instagram is about to be buried under a tidal wave of homemade handicrafts, and messages asking “Did u get my itam?! If so it would mean soooooo much 2 me if u wear it inna post k thx!” Man, I don’t envy them.

Excellent. This was a big blind-spot in ISIS thinking. They are so damned arrogant and self-righteous and drunk on their own noble bullshit that they didn’t think that perhaps some of these women wouldn’t be grateful for their new “marriage”. Couldn’t conceive that there would be some women who’d decide there are…

I ain’t catholic, nor am I a fan of the church, but if the couple wants to keep the Bishop and his discretion out of it, they can always get married at city hall instead of, you know, have an representative of the church yoke them together spiritually as well as civilly.

Small conventions are the best. Once they started looking like trade shows, I lost interest quickly. I miss the days when my local convention was small and you could make friends easy. You could actually pick people out from previous years and tell them you remember last-year’s costume. I miss those days. Back when…

No way Sarah Palin said this. I think Trig must have said it and it was wrongly attributed to her by the “lamestream” media.

I’d tell him off too, but to a troll, attention is better than gold. Given what you’ve been through, though, I hope he’ll recognize that you have a more informed opinion on this matter than most people.

If you are reading this post, give me a star. I want to see if anyone actually reads this far down into the greys in order to see what I’ll be playing (Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch), or if this article is just a lot of people talking past each other. I suspect people are interested in what they themselves plan…

I tell you this from the deepest well of honesty to which I have access: If teenage me was working there and I saw my coworker being sucked out of the window like that, I’d make a dash for a large, but not unwieldy vessel of roiling, blistering french-fry grease, and jog outside with it. Then, I’d fling it at their…

If that’s her solution to getting her car taken away, I wonder if moving into this place will be her plan if she ever faces an eviction:

That mupped friggin’ CHANNELED Meg Ryan right there! If they could have made the puppeteer give it that scrunchy-face-success-look I’d have assumed Meg Ryan was doing a guest spot!

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

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