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pretty much all castration and blinding from there on out.

The NYC area has "mother-in-law apartments," a house with a separate one-bedroom apartment, usually in the basement, where you can keep a family member close enough to watch the kids but not actually living with you.

Yeah, I really wanted to write more about that, but Wikipedia didn't provide much context. I will say it's one of the most baffling things I've come across in 3+ years of writing this thing.

My wife would be relieved!

Not that I can remember, but I've done almost 200 of these at this point, so who knows.

I'll add them to my list. I can always use more grist for the mill!

I assume most people used the withdrawl method… which is why 1/3 of brides were pregnant. They call it that because, if that's your method, you're going make a withdrawl from the bank to buy a crib sooner or later…

That would have been a great detail for the alternate universe in Fringe.

I don't think it's possible to underestimate the effect the birth control pill had on society. People got married so young because sex=pregnancy for most of human history. It wasn't really viable to be single and unencumbered for ten years before getting married unless you planned on being celibate, and history…

And in 2017, we still have more white women with Oscars for playing Asian women (2) than Asian women with Oscars for playing Asian women (0).

Co-editor in chief J. Jonah O'Neal is convinced President Thing is a menace, and nothing will dissuade him!

Didn't think of Doctor Who. That's a good one.

And that final season they co-produced with HBO that managed to be both unfunny and racist. The bigger the show got, the worse it got.

It only just occurred to me that your TV and "football" are essentially operating on the same model.

Has any show outside of Great-Tasting Original Recipe Law & Order completely replaced its original cast and gotten better?

One thing that always makes me feel like a good parent is the stark difference between my childhood, where I'd watch any old garbage that came on TV, and my own kids, who are very discerning and basically only watch Adventure Time and a few other shows sporadically, and have zero patience for anything that doesn't…

If it was still spelled "Sci-Fi" back then, it was a lateral move. If it was spelled "SyFy," definitely down.

I once worked for Gifts and Decorative Accessories, and it made me lose all faith in America. We, as a civilization, could have poured our resources into curing cancer, or landing on Mars, but instead, here are six different kinds of scented pens! And candles. So many candles. Dear Lord, the candles.

Because Man.. or Astroman? throw Nutty Bars into the audience. That buys a lot of good will.

True story: at my college radio station, a freshman DJ once looked at the CD catalogue and said, "who are The Various Artists? They have so many albums!"