I don’t recall the name of it, but there’s an X-Files episode that loops in time where Mulder and Scully repeatedly try to thwart a bank robbery. Mulder gets shot I can’t remember how many times.

One of my most vivid dreams was a dream that was so excruciatingly, suffocatingly boring that I had to deliberately, and rather desperately, wake myself up to escape it.

Spock always had to hide his ears, and Worf used a very stylish hat in “Trials and Tribble-ations” to hide his forehead ridges—but in every case wasn’t it because they were caught unawares by inadvertent or unplanned time travel, or being unexpectedly caught in a situation

I have family members who love to spout misogynistic “jokes.” Which they actually mean. What would be the better response? To take their remarks seriously and elevate these guys’ comments to being a debatable issue? Or to treat what they said as laughably immaterial to any serious and grown-up conversation?

This video is bizarre. It’s as if someone took the Simpsons seriously and did an expose on the characters’ misogyny, bigotry, laziness, greed, just plain rotten behavior as if no one had ever noticed it before. As if it isn’t satire.

I’m watching Voyager for the first time all the way through, I’d only seen episodes here and there before. And I’m now getting the distinct impression that Janeway is a Mary Sue character.

What’s the ghost of Rock Hudson saying? Or didn’t you notice him standing behind Kid Rock? (It’s who Chris is staring at.)

From what everyone’s saying here, it’s not so much an evolutionary thing as a cultural/upbringing thing. I’d have to agree in part—it’s the upbringing plus how different personalities react. I grew up extremely remotely with only my family for company, and we all did our own thing. We were brought up to be extremely…

I live in a remote area without ready access to a vet. When my dog’s leg became severely gangrenous after an accident I used apple cider vinegar on the wound and it completely cleared it up within days and she recovered to be perfectly healthy with no side effects.

Someone pointed out to me that The New Encyclopedia Britannica disputes that there “isn’t any historical evidence that the Jesus in the bible ever existed.” According to them, independent accounts “prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed…

When I was twenty I knew zilch about racism of any stripe. I met this wonderful, witty, kind black man who thought it was dangerous for me to be walking around that ignorant so he decided to catch me up on “the facts.”

Oh, and then there are the bottom, bottom tier, the commentators who are spoken of as “the greys.” That’s a color, right?

There are “tiers” on an anti-racist, anti-fascist site? With “upper tiers” that indicate there are “lower tiers”? In other words, some commentators are openly more privileged and everyone posting here embraces this lack of equality.

Racism is about color, right? Then I call racist on anyone who supports and is associated with these sites where some commenters are called “the greys” in a tone of superiority, as if “the greys” are a people who don’t deserve an equal voice.

Ah. So it’s like some people don’t believe you can know good without evil. They can’t be superior if someone isn’t inferior.

“Nobody reads this....”

My brother-in-law lives in an almost all-white, upscale area of Florida, drives a white car, married a white woman, lives in a white house (inside and out). One day when his thirteen-year-old son (all black, from a previous marriage) was staying with me we saw the movie “White Men Can’t Jump” come on TV. He…

I think the takeaway from Black Like Me isn’t so much what it’s like to be black, but the realization of how privileged white folk are, in ways they never realized.