Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'ma Let you finish, but Sarah Palin has one of the best 'claiming Tina Fey is anti-women because Fey made fun of her' episodes of all time!

Oh, so that's where we get rapeseed oil from- we press the seeds from the rapefruit?

I love me some vertical axis wind turbines. It breaks my heart they don't scale up to a relevant size. We need better bearings.

Which in turn lead to the next great innovation in dangerous toys.

I think your last point keys the main reason why so many people are uneasy with US policy and law surrounding drone use. There is so little transparency regarding their use we are entirely too comfortable with their use. Not only are we thousands of miles away from the above picture, but for the most part we didn't…

Even if feminism has moved beyond the belief that porn is always degrading, the narrative about feminism hasn't. There are also very vocal feminists of the previous wave (which one are we on now?) that are pretty strident about the topic making the waters even muddier. There have been plenty of topics that I've read…

To be fair, many (if not most) of the feminist who oppose porn argue you can't be a feminist and not oppose porn.

See how the color-y bits aren't at the north and south poles? NASA knew that, and the Apollo missions left LEO in that region. Pretty clever those rocket scientists...

There is a (apparently) painless way to have the foreskin removed for adults now, involving a clamp and an o-ring that is worn for about a week.

I find it really depends on the aptness of metaphor, and if both sides are debating in good faith; however if both occur I've always found "if the situation were reversed" hypotheticals the most powerful way to change my understanding of someone else's position.

Your opinion was a judgment. You can be judged for your taste - it's merely stating an opinion.

I have mixed feelings about this - and I feel guilty I have mixed feelings about this.

That was my first thought as well. I have to imagine the IA would be thrilled to have them.

Yeah, I tend to liken it to the aphorism - in an avalanche every snowflake pleads not-guilty. On the other hand, the snow flakes are subject to the conditions they exist in. In the end, best we can hope for is to level things a bit so the there are fewer conditions that produce avalanches. Unfortunately that…

I certainly think it plays a driving role in those behaviors, but it probably isn't the whole story either. Each element of those behaviors can be teased apart separately, and each time they are exhibited is a unique instance. Then again, I find it easy get lost pondering the lines between overly holistic or overly…

Ritual is like music. By and large we like harmonies and rhythms. We get uncomfortable when discord is injected into a song or the rhythm becomes a jumble. There's no rational reason for it; it's just how we are. Even if someone doesn't agree with the origin of a ritual, they'll often continue it to maintain the…

I'm really glad to hear that. He's probably my favorite Jurist on the bench right now.

I suppose the analogy needs to be extended: your friend texts you that they're texting while driving, you should, at the next safe opportunity, admonish the friend not to text while driving.

What my parents told me was it was way more fun staying sober and watching other people get high. I have to admit that it worked; the one time I was offered I declined and watched the floor show.

OK, I'll bite, what distinguishes superhuman Beyonce, Oprah, Rihanna and Halle Berry from apparently ordinary human Kerry Washington?