One of the professors on my thesis committee was a biologist who didn't believe in macroevolution (the idea that evolution can create new species). He was a good biologist, surprisingly. He just did his job without ever telling his students he didn't believe in the stuff he was teaching.

Funny, because I know a lot more of the anti-capitalist, excited to find something to be offended about, always-jumping-to-a-new-"cause" educated middle class white girl stereotype they were taking aim at with Britta than people who hand out consent forms.

I think that's a great example of something that could have been funny and cutting except for the writers seemingly not knowing much about the group they were satirizing. Kimmy's friends tell her to ghost Perry in the middle of a real life conversation: what a great set up for a gag about how stupid some modern dating…

Britta's character on Community satirized a lot of the same behaviours and groups this episode was trying to poke fun at and the AV Club (including a bunch of the people criticizing this episode, I bet) loves Community. I don't think its fair to say people here won't accept any comedy at the expense of the SJW crowd…

While I think some of the jokes in this episode were more nuanced, some of it was so broad and cliched it was the left/millennial equivalent of satirizing Southern whites by having a bunch of white people with bad Southern accents yelling vaguely about guns while eating sticks of butter. I wouldn't find that funny…

I had to retake one of my provincial exams (the big final exams we take at the end of high school that are important enough for university acceptance that you get one retake if you bomb it) because the marker apparently found my writing too hard to read so they gave me a zero on those sections. I seriously wished I…

And that while the kids were going without food the mother would hide food from them so she could eat it instead.

Some of Guy Gavriel Kay's books are at least trying for that. I'm thinking Under Heaven which is a very Game of Thrones-type fantasy world based on the Tang Dynasty. I think it's just the single book, though, and not a series.

I'm hoping that's where they go with Season 2, either by having Gilead become more racist and that significantly intersecting with Offred's story, or by switching to a POC main character and following them instead.

But the US has spent decades building up an insanely huge military and a lot of economic power. The US currently happily breaks trade agreements in the knowledge that any country outside of China that tries to hit back economically will hurt themselves more than the US. China won't care if the US starts violating…

I really liked the book, but it certainly is meandering with lots of non-essential diversions to random midwestern towns. I found that part of its charm, but I see how other people wouldn't. I also loved the Coming to America segments (I think those are the histories you're talking about?) and I was glad to hear that…

I think you're mixing the rules for immigration and for refugees and they're fairly different. Our immigration system is points-based: we have skills requirements, health requirements etc. Our refugee acceptance is needs-based: the person needs to show that they are at risk in their home country, and…

No, he grabbed someone else (a guy) to try and haul him back to his seat (proceedings couldn't continue until the guy was sitting down and opposition members were purposely trying to stand in his way to stop him from getting to his seat because our MPs are children). He accidentally elbowed a female MP from the…

I thought they did include both. They had the woman spewing vile stuff at Lady Gaga who says she mostly trolls to promote equality, the immigrant from Syria whose stuff seemed to be criticizing the US based on its human rights abuses in the Middle East, and the Muslim woman arguing against Islamophobia online…

I doubt there's a parent out there who hasn't ignored his or her kid for 30 seconds so they can finish an adult conversation or answer a ringing phone, and if this guy gets judged so hard for not stopping his live international news interview to not explain to the kid why he can't stop to admire her sunglasses or…

I didn't quite get "broken robot" from X-24. Maybe I'm reading into it waaaay too much but I felt it was a small riff on the family/fatherhood theme that ran through the movie. His interactions with Zander Rice seemed to have a bit of a parental nature to them, with Rice fearlessly walking up to X-24 to…

She's actually a very cheery person so I'm not entirely sure what was up with that. Still, Closing Time seems like a fairly happy song when you're 6.

The Future is my mother's favourite album, she'd play it, day in and day out for years. As of a couple of years ago, she'd bring it when she traveled so she could listen to it in her hotel room. I grew up knowing literally every word. I can't imagine a world without Leonard Cohen

I know a guy who gets his news exclusively from Yahoo. I found this out when he told me a story about a guy named "Cain" and when I told him I had no idea who that was, he followed up with "Kim Kardashian's husband. He's in all the news articles about her."

From what I remember, this in no way contradicts the book. Everyone was pretty sure the boat HMS Terror was somewhere around there anyway (hence the name of the bay) because the Inuit said that's where it was and they were right about everything else.