The film did not make love a quantifiable force of physics. It put a human being, as a four-dimensional being, inside a user-interface built for him by future five-dimensional beings, that allowed him to manipulate gravity across the dimensions. He chose to understand that as a manifestation of love. It wasn't, but…

Let the speculation begin!

I am not familiar with the UVA campus, myself (I took the prospective student tour 20 years ago, but frat row wasn't part of it). But I have been on the campuses of several big Southern state universities, and on all of them, the frats were clustered together on a single street in identical-looking houses. It would…

It's also true that this is still unfolding. Everyone needs to take a big step back and give it time.

I'm a straight, cis-, white man, age 37. Most of the conversations I have end up being with other straight, cis-, white people, many of them male. There are rooms in this world mostly filled with straight, cis-, white men, and I can get into them.

Ummm...Khaleesi?

How do you get that gig? 'Cause this looks like stuff I've been doing for my kids in the bamboo out back for a decade...

All those making the "lawyers will lobby this problem away" argument are missing the crucial point — this will come about because of firms *competing with each other.*

It stands for Social Justice Warrior, and it's supposedly a derogatory term. Though if the worst thing someone can think to say about you is "she fights for justice for all," I'm on your team.

"Yes, that's right, there's no alpha," Bear said. He took another sip of his wine and set it down. "You go ahead and believe that. Woof."

If we've agreed as a culture that 'she didn't fight back' isn't proof of consent, then the fact that he didn't stop it isn't proof of consent.

1) This is brilliant.

Implantable computers.

Mockingjay genuinely seems to be the most misunderstood successful book of the last decade, maybe more, and the movies are bound to divide people the same way the book did.

I have taught comprehensive sex-ed to 14-year-olds twice. I will say this — many of them DO get their idea of what sex is like from porn, and many of them do have very unrealistic expectations because of that.

It's part of a setup for something larger.

It might have been a case of mistaken identity.

I agree. I just think it's important to acknowledge that this particular case is part of a larger cultural divide that plays out over whales constantly. Look into Japan's whale hunt for "scientific research" and how much of it ends up in restaurants. It's a controversy even within Japan these days, as I understand…

They did not unknowingly serve sei, or serve it posing as sushi. They went out of their way to get it, it is considered a delicacy in Japan (though there is a generational divide there where some older people eat it and many younger people consider that a problem), it wasn't listed on the menu but was produced only…

So THAT'S why I liked the first few minutes of that movie. I remembered thinking it was good at first and went off the rails quickly, but I didn't remember why. I guess I was enjoying the movie we should have gotten.