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I think "enfant terrible" would have been more fitting for Vichy youth militia.

As fun as it is to call it out on its egotism and ignorance, we must not overlook what it's actually saying, or trying to say, and just how wrong-headed, false, and damaging that message is.

Also objectionable was the acceptance of the response "The Theory of Relativity" for the energy-mass equivalence Einstein question.

Glad to know the series is a prequel to the movies since it would seem Neeson's character would soon run out of relatives and friends to rescue from being taken, unless, of course, it's the same person or persons getting kidnapped and the character is all like, "oh geez, I gotta go rescue my daughter again? Who took

Comparing OUaT and Grimm is instructive, I think, not only because they're both fairy-tale-based shows that premiered within less than week of each other, but also for how they navigated their respective universes with varying degrees of success.

I thought all people of Indian descent were self-taught maths geniuses.

The composer Tan Dun was already well-known and respected in contemporary classical circles and his involvement with the movie gave it a prestige that was well deserved.

Every time they do that you should just thank them because they've shown they can't respond reasonably or rationally to your arguments and have to resort to schoolyard taunts just to save face.

For all the jury system's faults, this seemed like the ideal time to practice jury nullification to protest the very vagueness and oppression of the law.

Whatever policy disagreements one may have had with Obama, he at least carried the mantle of the Presidency with the weight of responsibility inherent in the office, aware not only of his duties to all Americans but to future ones as well.

Didn't know about Quakers participating in the American Revolution until I saw it on AMC's Turn; good to know it's historically accurate.

I first interpreted that to mean "Keynesian" but then realized I was giving that particular commenter far, far too much credit.

If it were simple ignorance I wouldn't be as concerned as it could potentially be corrected, but it's a willful disdain of anything that doesn't fit their worldview whether or not it has any basis in fact or reality, the strength of their dismissal proportional to the established acceptance of what the rest of us take

Shit really does rise to the top.

One of these things is not like the others.

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life"

As long as contestants wisely avoid the category until the very end, I'll not be unhappy.

Or Bernie Sanders.

It's neither "day" or "die" since both are diphthongs and the actual syllabe, "대", has a short vowel sound closer to "eh" or the first "e" in "better".