ABORTIONS FOR SOME! MINIATURE AMERICAN FLAGS FOR OTHERS!!!

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.

Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos!

No, it’s real.

CRUSTY JUGGLERS.

The two Andy's could be a movie.

It belongs in a museum!

“Borg, y’all done fucked up.” -Jean-Luc Picard

Yeah. Black people can walk around anywhere saying the N-word and not really worry about getting in trouble and you can't. You can walk around anywhere and not really worry about getting shot by the police and they can't. Wanna trade or just complain about how unfair it all is for you some more?

The problem with the "evolution" argument is that the honest truth is that we evolved to be exactly the way we are as a population.

See, I kiiiiinda feel like her whole "Bed of Roses" section equates monogamy with idealized romance, and that's just not the case. I mean, she may not have intended for it to come across that way, but it really reads that way to me.

Yeah, anytime people point to "how we were always meant to be" I become skeptical. Evolutionary Psychology has been used to justify everything from the fact that only men should sleep around and women should be monogamous to the fact that naturally we should have a matriarchal society because it is far easier to…

It's been a trend in a certain area of illustration for a number of years. I hate to say "hipster" because it's usually meaningless, but this time it's bang on. The Venn diagram of artists who are under-30, liked anime, and read Pitchfork contains a union which has either dabbled in or flirted with the idea of drawing…

This. Not to mention the fact that anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists aren't necessarily all in sync with the "we evolved to be polyamorous" theory. There are a few different schools of thought that say a few different things.

It's very nice that you found an environment in which you are happy, but I do wish people would stop deferring to evolution every single time. The people who write books and push the idea that humans "evolved" or "didn't evolve" to be monogamous or play football or drive a Toyota Cressida do so with very flimsy…

Hard work =! success.

The problem with overly focusing on how intelligent a kid is is that, as someone pointed out on a different thread, while being able to read at a college level is really impressive for a 10-year-old, it's just not that impressive once you're in college. Barring a few real exceptions of astonishing intelligence, the…

for once the science validates my anecdotal experience.

Researchers have been emphasizing our need to praise a child's effort rather than intelligence for a while now (back in 1998 it was being framed as something that would immunize them to self-defeating behavior, not ward off narcissism, per se). And psychologists have long warned against telling a gifted child what…