From '33 to '39 the primary goal was encouraging emigration. The Nazis didn't want to destroy anyone besides the Bolsheviks, what they wanted was to purify Europe and to extend the territorial limits of the Germanic peoples. Irony of ironies, they primarily exported Jews to Palestine with the aid of a Zionist…

There's nothing to debate about laughably ignorant babble. Pointing out your historical inaccuracies, racist stereotyping and silly hypotheticals would only serve to embarrass you further.

Amy Goodman is brilliant, so I wonder if her "mistakes" are intentional to play dumb and get guests talking. She interviewed CeCe McDonald and Laverne Cox last week and did an excellent job. She asked some trans 101 questions without being insulting or asking anyone about her genitals, while also allowing McDonald…

Actually, evidence leads to scientific breakthroughs.

Played by the crazy dad from the Twisted Sister video.

And be prepared for huge amounts of poetry in the comments section! It really does have the best fanbase ever.

Biohazard Level 4 is basically things like Ebola that are extremely dangerous, very infectious in most cases, and have no cure or vaccine (with the exception of Smallpox which is automatically Level 4 despite the existence of a vaccine), the Levels below that are Level 3 (extremely dangerous, probably less infectious,…

Neil actually said his comments were a compliment to the quality of the film:

At least not while the pack members still showed signs of virility, which is why I assume there was such an emphasis on sexual politics.

Largest does not necessarily mean most dominant. Clearly Monica was the pack leader and would brook no cannibalism.

Fatal Flaw:

Ok, it is not sci-fi but I am going to have to say Friends.

This is less about thinking positively and more about "wishing vs. doing". There was an article here (I think) a few months ago about how people who discuss their goals and plans with others are sometimes less likely to succeed (specifically, to follow through) than those who don't, because the act of discussion…

Do you think that the skyline in the Scream is because of the atmospheric effects of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa? (ETA: I ask because it was mentioned in the wikipedia article that some people think that's what it is.)

While I don't know if that specific fact is true, I regularly mention in my rhetoric of hate speech class that pre-Nazi Germany was indeed considered by many to be the one of the most educated societies in the world at the time, and its universities were the gold standard everybody else strove for.

Entirely? No. I see other people here are already on the "They'll never take away my bookshelves!" tear. I feel the same way and love my bookshelves.

I see your point. I'm in my 70s and have always loved reading and books, it I welcomed the e-reader as soon as it appeared in the late 1990's because my bookshelves were so full, double stacked, I had to do something. Now I'm older, advantages are I can enlarge the font size very easily and buy books without leaving…

For a site with so much focus on futurism, the number of people arguing that printed books will always be around is surprising. Sure, *you* will never give up on them, but kids now are growing up without ever reading a physical book outside of their school textbooks. E-readers are becoming more and more affordable…

Indiana Jonos and the Floppies of Diablo!

Not conflicted at all, actually. Despite my unabashed love for Obama, there are absolutely things about him that I'd criticize quite heavily.