You should read everything I write. Better safe than sorry.

If wishing death on people who were shooting at my ancestors at the time makes me a bad person, then judge away. Both my grandfathers did more than wish death upon a bunch of Nazis too; sorry if that offends.

Nope, only narco-submarines, as far as I can remember.

I feel like @Nudeador Viking has brought that up fondly once or twice in the Savage Love comments.

Dammit, you're right. Good catch. I had always imagined Verne's sub was pure fantasy when he wrote the book, and let my childhood assumptions override my fact-checking.

So, I have a different theory. We're not looking for aliens. We're looking for us, which is why we haven't found anything. Our SETI mostly involves looking for radio waves, because we assume since we made radios other people will too. But there's no reason to believe that. We took the wrong lesson from Star Trek,…

Thanks, Univision!

One of my favorite things about writing Wiki Wormhole is that devoted reader @Unexpected Dave posts a breakdown of that week's article's most insane Talk Page discussions.

Well, we're not there yet — the first two have to sell first!

Let's face it, France basically won the war for us. Washington used French officers, French gunpowder, French cannon, and Irish enlisted men to beat the English's German mercenaries.

It's only shameless because I'm sandwiching it into an unrelated article!

I apologize sincerely for making anyone think of the band Train. To the point where I'm seriously considering renaming the book in third printing.

I just thought it was a nice flourish, but I think the implication was that she didn't have to smuggle everything inside of hollowed-out eggs, she could pretty brazenly send packages to Grant without fear of being intercepted.

Yes, I made a point to say minority of the vote for that reason, since, unlike our last few Republican presidents, he still came in first.

That second one's unsigned? You don't say!

The only real way to beat a larger enemy with more resources is to drag things out until they decide you're not worth the effort and give up. (See also: Revolutionary War)

I should have read that more closely.

And I talked about those a bit. But the marriage/social structure is unique in the entire world (as far as I could tell based on some cursory research), so that seemed like the thing to focus on). And I did try not to use matrilineal and matriarchal interchangeably, but the culture is both, so I did use both terms.

If you grew up in a agrarian society, the odds of you being an only child would be pretty low.

I'm well aware that much of the world is still very traditional when it comes to marriage, but I assumed that's not true of much of The A.V. Club's readership. I was thinking more of who would be reading and discussing than the world in general. And even taking the entire world into account, you're certainly more…