P.S. Why has Tennessee taken over North Carolina on that map?

“Historical perspective” is such a funny thing in geologic terms. Saying we’re about due for a once-in-500,000 years eruption could mean it’s still a couple of thousand years away. And even then, there’s not a damn thing you can do about it anyway, so why freak out over it?

His body didn’t clear the niacin so it accumulated, achieving a toxic level.

It’s not concrete, it’s a triple-neutron-bonded-quad-helix-unobtainium.

The whole dialogue about cultural appropriation has become difficult to pin down lately for me, due to some people using that word to talk about all kinds of things that, whether they are bad or not, in my opinion don’t classify as cultural appropriation. I am of the opinion that a lot of people actually simply do…

I appreciate your being willing to wade into this. The concerns about cultural appropriation strike me as having gotten out of control—there’s also a slippery slope issue—if you make a big deal about “appropriation” in one direction, you give fuel to people who don’t want “white culture” “appropriated”—aka bigots. I…

Saw Title.

Westerns may fall behind Sci-Fi in our modern era... but in a world that has reached the technological feats alluded to in Westworld? A ‘simpler’ time might be their absolute favorite fantasy.

While I’m all for sexualization in positivity (As a gay man, I never get nearly as much male eye candy in my fandoms), I kinda feel this misses the mark a little.

Maybe I’m being obtuse but I felt the gay slurs used in Stranger Things were part and parcel with the vernacular of the day (and later times really). They weren’t calling him gay because he was or had demonstrated his “gayness” in some way off-screen; they were calling him gay because many kids are jerks who called…

How dare you insult backwash!

Re: those “voting observers”

Whenever my friend have that panicked “dead phone/end of the world” look on their face I usually ask for their phone and plug it into a cable that I “produce out of midair”. The cable is attached to my external battery pack which is usually in my messenger bag. The Anker PowerCore Mini is a 3350mAh battery the size of…

Whenever my friend have that panicked “dead phone/end of the world” look on their face I usually ask for their phone…

This xkcd comic will explain it for you:

“For the sake of pre-empting further comments like this:”

Yeah, THAC0 doesn’t exist anymore and hasn’t since 2nd edition AD&D.

I get the point.

My wife has explained to me in no uncertain terms that she is going to kill me one day (she is obsessed with forensic crime shows, so she knows how to get away with it too). She even has a specific number of days that I have left. Every time I do something that makes her happy, she adds to the total. Every time I do…

Not a fan of “artistic differences” then?

To be fair, Lochte probably doesn’t know the difference.