Can't anybody do anything good anymore? It's either suspicious, or it's just not good enough.

Oddly enough, as I think about it, that should be encouraging. From an incentives point of view, it's in the government's interest to continue discriminating against same sex couples. By granting them the marriage tax breaks the government has done the right thing in spite of the economic incentives.

Yeah, some real numbers would be nice. I can also say "Radiation levels spike when you're flying!!!!!!" but that would ignore the fact that it's only a few mrem over the course of the flight, and that's maybe 1-2% of your normal yearly background dose, which is effectively harmless. Insinuating it's a serious…

Can we get actual measurements? People hear "radioactive" and immediately think three eyed fish and babies with extra arms, but without comparison levels it means nothing. We need a comparison to average background radiation levels of the water in the same area to draw any kind of conclusions from this. It could be…

Awesome. My only worry is that it looks a bit... Torchwood. Lord knows I trust Whedon, but it still looks very, very pretty. There'd better be some substance beneath the spotless and wrinkle free face of SHIELD*.

Yes, that's a great list. I'd like to add:

You know what? I actually really liked that movie. I think I am one of the few...

In addition to Wendy Davis's address that Laura8448 posted above, here are the addresses of the other badasses (and asses) from last night:

I want to put that everywhere. I want to tattoo it on my body. I want to take a bath in it.

Agree to all of this and would like to add something my mother told my brother when he started dating and how she expected him to treat women. "No isn't where the negotiations begin, it's the end of the conversation." Not surprisingly, he turned out not to be a jackass.

Agreed! I genuinely loved the sequence where he was experimenting with Toothless, getting to know his behaviors, and then testing his findings on the dragons in the arena, as well as him testing and refining and redesigning his flying apparatus. It's one of the very few representations of the actual scientific method…

I really hope that in becoming King of the Dragons, Hiccup hasn't lost his scientific edge.

Just because someone is "conventionally attractive" doesn't mean they don't have their own issues and hangups with how they look.

I think you've got it backwards, like pulling up your pants then peeing.

And, so long as women like StillMaryMartha keep making statements that women only *think* they enjoy it and like it, but they're really only doing it for men, you will continue to see women saying they like it. If you're sick of women talking about how they feel about their own personal pubes, you should probably work…

Oh yes, definitely. You should here the stuff we Swedes say about Norwegians, Finns and Danes. Nasty stuff, some of it, but when it comes down to it, we still love each other. There's a real family dynamic going on there.

I'm so glad I'm old.

Kathryn Bolkovac, early 2000s

I'm in the same boat. Ironically, I not only started off skinnier, but as a religious conservative. Then I let the light of the bunsen burner enter my heart and fill my mind with reason, ditched my conservative ways, and started working out (not causally related). At 35, my arms are the biggest they've ever been…

why not both?