Huh. That’s not the backstory I’m familiar with.

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.

Whoah. I think I read an Octavia Butler book about this.

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

'Zactly. It's Marvel's Thor, not Marvel's Snorri's Edda.

To be fair/pedantic, not all manuscripts say that (one says "wisest"), and no one knows what the heck it means, anyway. We do know that "white" isn't a skin-color term in Old Icelandic, though.

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.

I'm not going to be able to solve this huge problem in a comment, so I won't try, but I'll point out some sticky elements. Why would prosperity be the be-all, end-all? The idea that it might be stems from early capitalist thinking influenced by Darwinian notions. Does the system really reward intelligence with money?…