I've also got my own domain and email, but though I know i should switch to POP I just can't do it. I am hooked on IMAP. For the convenience factor. Argh.

Yeah, that whole thing basically gave me whiplash. I mean, forget even the hookup, there was all that pining and sadness over Major getting amnesia, most of which centered on forgetting Liv and losing that connection, and then there was the big rush to grab the cure so they could be together, and then it was like…

God, I loved Enlisted. For many reasons, but he was one. Still sad that show was canceled.

I hope so, because Major as a zombie is great.

I think the GOP leadership's strategy for keeping people from defecting basically boils down to momentum. Pass it quickly enough, and then threaten recalcitrant members with "you don't want to be the one who says no when everyone else says yes, it's going to happen, it's already happened, so sit down, shut up, and do…

But what they argue is that the timing and existence of the holiday is because it was an appropriation of a (rather poorly attested) goddess' holiday. Which is what makes little sense. ( It's an interesting topic so I'm going to go down the rabbit hole here, away from my main point. To look at the traditions is tricky…

Yeah, I get what you're going for, but basically your options are: no gravity (because that's what makes the earth round) or "something smushed the earth, and then the earth smushes back"

I'm really confused now. I was complaining about some idiots I know who think "Easter = EOSTRE!!!!" represents some mic-drop revelation that easter was originally a pagan holiday that Christians are appropriating.

Wasn't there some prestigious literary prize winning awful book called Bear about a woman who has sex with a bear? I think I remember a discussion of that book on this very site.

I did read somewhere that she argued against it, something about how her character could have crawled through the window?

I'm still kind of rooting for the Bobby & Rufus Grumpy Old Hunters show.

That didn't get me as much, because they were antagonists for the most part, but the hate for Jo and Ellen or any non-antagonistic female character..yeah, that was insane.

Which claim?

There's a line in The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards that's perfect, and it's something like: if you ever catch yourself recognizing something in Ancient Roman culture and finding it familiar, stop what you're doing. If it doesn't seem bizarre, you are projecting your own preconceptions on…

I both like and hate the term 'science fantasy, but it does work pretty well to describe something where the story telling mechanics are pure fantasy even if the aesthetic is meant to be science fiction.

Is he? I thought his family were scientologists or something

Dude, give it up. Just admit you were wrong and move on, rather than trying to torturously redefine everything.

I don't think anyone has argued that. They've argued that the Christian holiday is appropriating a pagan one, ignoring the fact that the Christian holiday is explicitly linked to a Jewish one.

My knowledge of polytheism is mostly limited to the classical world, but let me tell you, at least within the realm of my studies, polytheism and major goddesses does not make for less patriarchal religions. Roman religion (especially in the early Republic) was dominated by the capitoline triad if Juno, Jupiter, and…

I had wondered why people were becoming obsessive over how bad this movie was. From my non-spoiled understanding of the plot, it sounded like typical dreck. This is really something else by the sound of it.