The Devil Wears Prada may have been about women, but was the movie really doing a service to women? As a man, it's hard for me to say, really, but it felt like the movie was portraying a highly caricatured view of what can be called, "the world of the modern woman."

I think that the tax write-off for having children is the other side of the legal obligation to take care of one's own children. I see it as part of the Social Contract, in which society demands of parents that they care for their children and, in return, society gives those parents a tax break.

If perpetual motion were possible, the machines in The Matrix wouldn't have needed to use humans as perpetual batteries. And that, my friends, is logic!

A Department of Education crackdown? That sounds awesome! I can't wait to see the Bruckheimer treatment.

This really sounds like the kind of thing that a psychopath would write. And I mean that in a serious and literal sense. I mean, this guy seems like he would fit the clinical definition of psychopathy to the letter.

I'm guessing it will be vaguely similar to 20th Century Boy...

Emperor Meiji did no such thing. That policy was enacted in his name by the oligarchs who were actually running the country at the time. The Emperor, as he had been throughout the last thousand years of Japanese history, was little more than a figurehead.

You could make the same claim about fan fiction. You could also look up the word "canon" (with one "n").

No, the one that came first is canon. Anime is usually based on manga so the manga is usually canonical, but in this case it was the anime that came first.

I haven't been in many Korean girls' rooms, so I've got to ask: is that typical? That looks like an enlarged version of a Barbie play set.

Meh, the manga isn't canonical.

Otaku aren't into young girls, man. At least not, you know, young girls who exist in a three-dimensional sense...

I think it's really some of the other stuff he's saying that earns him the misogynist label.

Here's a footnote. At the company where I work, people receive a small per diem when they go on business trips (usually about 30 to 40 dollars per day, depending on distance traveled and whether they have to spend the night) and many men have separate bank accounts that are solely for keeping the per diem money from…

Oh my god, Pi reference! I love that movie!

I'm doing the exact same thing as you, even though my company reimburses me for commuting expenses. I just want the extra time and extra sleep.

When it got really hot one time (the wall-mounted a/c I had wasn't powerful enough to handle that summer), I put a bunch of ice in the bathtub and just hung out in the bathroom with a fan.

Yeah, but it's really "Buyer Beware" at those places. I tried to buy a human skull and they sent me a chimpanzee skull. I was like, "What the hell am I supposed to do with this?"

Your numbers are totally wrong. It's 116 dollars per year multiplied by the number of years the person has left to live. Since the average person lives to be about 80, that averages out to about 40 years, so a like is actually worth about 5,000 dollars.

Say what you will about Bush, but he got the job done.