Don’t forget those electric toothbrushes and battery-operated “shavers”... (with the condom over the non-shaving end, of course)

I remember reading what someone thought was a hilarious comment on ‘the state of the world today’ from just before the turn of the millennium:

A guy goes into the drugstore and loudly announces to the pharmacist, “I would like to buy a box of condoms!” Then lowers his voice to whisper, “... and a box of cigarettes...”

Oh, friggin’ easy: “The Human Target”. It’s been made into a t.v. show twice, so you KNOW it would get shot down before the pitchman finished saying the name...

And while the lead would have to be able to portray clones of the main character, they’re all ‘throwaways’; as I recall, he starts out as the ‘department head’ of an ‘enforcement bureau’ consisting of his own clones, working for a global conspiracy he thinks is benevolent. Upon realizing that his bosses are villains…

Please take an extra upvote. “Green Lantern: Mosaic” has the potential to be an absolutely phenomenal bit of social commentary ‘veiled’ by a ‘superhero show’. It would probably cost too much to do live-action, but even the writers’ roster for an animated adaptation would be fascinating...

Or Kim Harrison’s “Hollows” series...

Take an extra upvote and a raised glass in salute!

That’s the point: “life” could be defined as ‘self-sustaining activity at the cellular level’, but that leaves a very wide loophole: the same standard applies to cancer-cells as well as embryos. Ultimately, the conflict is PHILOSOPHICAL, rather than ‘scientific’.
Pro-choice people value a woman’s right to sovereignty…

Agreed. I must say I take bitter amusement that the GOP-ers who keep screaming that “the facts don’t care about your feelings” when disagreeing with... well, anyone... seem to uphold the diametric opposite standard for themselves: “my feelings don’t care about your facts!”

Part of it stems with cultural programming to equate ‘meat’, particularly beef, with ‘wealth’ and ‘success’. A lot of Americans use the phrase “all hat and no cattle” to describe someone as putting on a show of wealth but having nothing to back it up. “All shine and no gold” may communicate the same point but doesn’t…

“’Science-Fiction’ is made-up; one of the words in the genre’s name is ‘fiction’. But ‘spiritual warfare’ is very real, and not ‘fantasy’ at all, because my Book tells me so!”

“Mockumentary”? No need to put in the effort; the man’s record clearly mocks itself...

I’m not sure which element of that man’s record is more cringe-worthy: the fact that he keeps getting elected, or that he keeps finding women willing to marry him...

Descended from a legendary Canadian statesman, are you?

Oh, but would you mind sharing what about the term “Malk” makes you laugh?
For me and rather a lot of tabletop role-playing game nerds, it’s not only side-splitting hilarious, it’s even appropriately so. After all, among the vampires, there’s only one group who would even think of such a thing, let alone try to bring…

I used to have a copy of the boxed set, back in Ancient Times (tm) when TTRPGs used to be sold like that, with dice included. I can agree that the entry for this ‘race’ originally showed “YAZIRIAN” where it counted.

Or fluency in any language other than English. A language isn’t just a set of words and the order in which they appear; it’s a different perception of the world and how to relate to it. Several dialects spoken in China have quite distinct words for familial relationships because precision in establishing such things…

I would hypothesize that mosquitos, like most flying insects, do not care to ‘share airspace’ with things they cannot identify. The fact that bubbles not only shimmer on their surfaces but distort the light passing through them must ‘clutter up’ the bugs’ visual inputs something fierce. I take it as using the same…

Agreed, with tears in my eyes. The American system of dividing power between three branches of government only means that any and all parties who want to restore the “RIGHT” people’s power (at the total and permanent expense of everyone else’s rights) need to pay closer attention to locating and controlling bottlenecks…

In the words of a large diverse cast of people in a well-known sci-fi reboot:
“SO SAY WE ALL!”