You're goddamn right. Eyeballs boiled in Velveeta is what those things are.

There's actually a really good reason for these: gravity helps babies turn head-down, and mothers who have been upright before birth are less likely to have breach births. Contemporary textbooks still encourage nurses and other medical personnel to keep mothers upright and walking for as long as possible, to encourage…

It's actually really cool to see someone so impassioned and informed about local issues! Thank you for that.

I try.

This might help: http://www.ocadu.ca/programs/graduate_studies/mdes_strategic_foresight_innovation.htm

If by prescience you mean precognition, then no. It's more about taking a long hard look at the landscape of a problem, and figuring out ways to solve it or avoid it.

So, "Naughty or Nice" is basically one long Christmas episode of "Death Note"?

More like "corporate therapist."

Damn. All those years at Jesuit school, wasted...

You asked me if I could agree if we should not kill "actual, living babies." That's a straw-man argument and a thread derail. It makes the substance of the response hard to take seriously.

You'r right; I was confusing the two matters. I apologize.

I'm a science fiction writer and paid futurist, with a degree in strategic foresight. Perhaps Mr. Pigliucci would like to interview me about my work.

We can agree that you struggle with it, for reasons that are personal to you as an individual. But struggling people like you aren't the ones dictating American reproductive policy. The ones proposing changes to reproductive legislation are, overwhelmingly, socially conservative. Their values stem from misogynist…

I think that these are all reasons for politicians and others to *say* that they're still impassioned about the abortion debate (or rather, to continue debating it) but this piece doesn't really touch on the role basic misogyny plays in that debate. American reproductive policy has more to do with controlling sex than…

Can we just get a soap set in the Shire, already? Like "Coronation Street" but with more charming architecture, greenery, and occasional singing? Because this is starting to sound like a backdoor pilot. A circular backdoor pilot.

So they've found a way to combine the Pendulums *and* the mannequin jump scare from the shopping mall sequence? Wow.

I thought the same.

"I've made a terrible mistake."

I would really love for this interpretation to be validated by a later cut of the film, in much the same way that the "Deckard is a replicant," reading of Blade Runner was. I think that would prove this case a great deal better than what Scott or the others have mentioned in interviews. While I think that interviews…