Use doesn’t just mean speak. There are lots of neat books, not nearly all translated. If I ever learn to read Finnish well, there is so much science fiction I am dying to read.

I recommend Juneau, though. There’s an actual lesbian scene.

You rock. I think i would have been afraid that ass would hurt my kid.

I find myself wanting to tell other white people and telling them they should also do the right thing. Is there room for signal boosting? For telling other people to get off their butts? I hope so.

Dog One would sell me out for bread. No joke. It's the time he ate two loaves of raw bread dough that got exciting, though.

Wow. I think that's a regionalism, but still jerkily done.

I've seen a little too much flip, pop application of Mao's face here in the West, too. Cut it out, people. He caused the death of millions.

Water is heavy, yo.

Everything funnier in Swedish. #teasingswedes

Thanks for bringing some specifics to my overgeneralization! I'm used to seeing social shifts percolate up (rapidly, though) from folks to State Churches in Norden. The background is, of course, pretty darn liberal countries to begin with.

It's the State Church. Nordic state churches tend to be a hair more conservative than the wider culture — always playing catch-up, but never all that far behind. "Evangelical Lutheran" is a denomination, so, yeah, totally different from "evangelical" in the US. You can read about the Finns here: http://evl.fi/EVLen.nsf

Then what are all those fat nekkid ladies doing in all those famous paintings?

I just feel old, now. I remember long before the rainbow marshmallows. I think they were a leap forward in technology or something.

Those aren't dissenting opinions. The subject of the article isn't whether or not the episodes took place. If it were, then your comments would be on topic. As it is, they'e nonsequitors.

It's not the sample size that bugs me, it's going for the self-identifying crowd. From what I've read, there's a small population who are demonstrably not celiac because they don't have the genes but still have sky-high gluten antibody levels when they eat gluten. I want to read a study about them.

Folklorist Meagan Winkelman is ahead of you in a 2012 article in Folklore Forum:

You mean SUNDOG!

Ugh is right. I always tell my students not to date inside the field if possible and definitely not inside the program.

Yep. That pup dodged a bullet, if not the car.