Next season on True Detective...

I can't remember where I got that idea (I've only read the beginning of the first book, but I stand corrected. And note to self: Don't attempt blockquotes here again.

It's also probably much uglier for kids who've never been away from mom when they suddenly have to go off to school. Pure dependency is not a good thing.

<blockquote>In a better world, one where love could overcome strength and duty, you might have been my child.</blockquote>

Well, we definitely won't be now. I am hoping that GOT won't show us whatever's left. I was seriously worried during the bath scene last week.

So you're happy with synthesis, wherein Shepard's molecules being spread throughout the galaxy magically turns all organic life partly synthetic and all synthetic life partly organic. How does the latter part work anyway? Does EDI have a period now?

I take it you didn't play the game before the extended cut? The original ending was meant to be rocks fall and everyone dies. Bioware walked it back in the face of mass fan outrage.

To the first point, probably because he'd been dead for two years, and it's extremely difficult to regain your assets after being mistakenly declared dead. It also seems likely that "Shepard's" money in ME1 actually belonged to the Alliance.

Low reps/high weight supposedly facilitate bulking up more. (Personally, I'm skeptical but I'm happy to do low reps/high weight to save time.) But doing one or two reps can't be effective. That's silly macho crap.

Why can't it be both?

If I like the person, I'll smile in response, but I'm a terrible liar/actor, so I find it's just better if I don't attempt fake laughter.

That's pretty much me, but I'm also pretty socially reserved in general, so I get a pass much of the time.

I'm sorry, but the shopping around the perimeter suggestion is some laughable crap. Has Pollan even been inside a supermarket?

That's ridiculously simplistic. It actually boils down to: almost never eat garbage. Eating more than one or two servings of crap food a day pretty much means overweight/obesity unless you have an amazing metabolism. And our culture is saturated in cheap crap food, making it a difficult task for most people to say…

The last time I consulted a nutritionist, he advised me to eat a 1,200 calorie diet to lose weight. There's a reason that was the *last* time.

To anyone claiming that Louis C.K. and his kids (classy!) must be stupid to not be able to answer these questions easily, please provide evidence that *you* can.

You're not a moron, and, yes, that is what he should be doing. That's what he would be doing in a country where education policy isn't totally bananas.

A pictograph is worse than useless in teaching math. Are you serious?

I think it's an example of how our country tries to do education on the cheap. My cousins in Denmark spent more total hours in class than I did growing up, but they also had negligible homework in comparison. In the end, they probably spent less time being educated in a given school day than I did. They also seemed…

I'd really love to know if 8-year-olds in Japan are getting nonsensical word problems as part of their math curriculum. I'm a college-educated 34-year-old who was great at math (I even took Calculus in college even though it wasn't required), and I had trouble figuring out what in the hell those word problems are…