Just finished the game today and I agree with some of your points, but not all.

That is a deeply distressing video at the link. I don't recommend watching it

I'm a big Halo fan, but here's where I differ from other Halo fans, I think. I still haven't picked up Halo 4, I can't get interested in it, and ODST and Halo 2 are clearly the best games of the series. My list:

I am with you 100% No game ever made me consider the value of the lives I sacrificed in my war more than the Mass Effect trilogy. I have a pet theory that Mass Effect 2 was Bioware's treatise on how death in video games is cheap, and why death in Mass Effect's universe is not cheap.

. Changing our society to support pregnant women and mothers rather than allowing them to end up in a place where they feel like an abortion is necessary would be pro-woman.

It's corny but true: Star Trek (particularly Voyager, which I got very into) had a bunch of scientists going out there, being cool and the most respected members of society, and everyone in that society was cared for.

I agree with your Handmaid's Tale experience. What terrified me the most was the way the change was a slow, insidious creep. Made me determined I would always fight for what I believed.

A plane crashed into a mall?!

Every fall in places like Concord, California and Warrensburg, Missouri,

I feel the same for Euthanasia,

It amazes me that evidence of pain perception is held up by the anti-abortion group as evidence of 'life'. In animal welfare we point out that animals feel pain all the time, and yet their sentience is often denied by the very same groups.

I would add Robert Bolano's 2666 to that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2666_(novel)

I think in Britain we would call both torties. Your attached pic is what I would call a dark tortie and the article's pic is a light tortie. In saying that, I believe they're actually different coat morphologies so it may be more accurate to say tortie and calico respectively

Not all women respond the same way to hormones,

I think the review is probably correct about PREmenstrual syndrome. But periods do certainly affect my mood. Mine make me a sobbing wreck who finds even Cash4Gold adverts stirring enough to have a wee cry. It also seriously affects my spatial reasoning, somehow. Not to trot out another old stereotype but I can park…

A: The Conjoined Kitten of Menace looks like it's tap dancing.

Well I can't say in your case, but I've been able to see blushes in some of my black friends (that's right folks, definitely not racist here). It's only noticeable if I know them really well, though. *shrugs*

More important question: Why do I blush when I'm telling the truth but can lie with impunity?

I'll need to wait till my mother leaves.

Welp. There's that song in my head.