Actually, it's a porn site, and this article is way short the appropriate number of virgins in mid-deflowering.

Actually, that's not true. I just took this picture of my TV, Samsung LN46C630, 2010 model, input set to cable (normally it's TiVo over HDMI).

IO9 has already made the decision to be associated with porn. It predates us both, and involves neither of us. Done deal, years back. What's the reason to change now? What's different? When you make your case to Annalee, how will you frame it?

IO9 should absolutely be associated with porn. Because they decided that before you or I showed up, at meetings we don't get invited to.

Is there a list somewhere that tells us which kinks are good and sexy and which kinks we can mock with abandon? I'd hate to get my kinks confused and run afoul of the hivemind. That would be *embarrassing*. Imagine making fun of light bondage! Or not!

There's been porn here before—was that an issue then too? The articles on XXX versions of Star Trek or the Justice League? That one guy with the huge penis strap on that I can only vaguely recollect because of the trauma of the weird?

That company has all your needs covered.

...you didn't enjoy A Little Slice Of Kevin? Admittedly I've liked more of the season than I've disliked, but I am getting gay married to the last ep, and then cheating on it with this week.

What frustrated me a little was that every "in your head" or "run away" that prompted the dream sequence was also said in the sequence. So there's a plausible reason for them to be recalled other than them having been running away into his head.

For me, the basic premise of this episode is running away, and how far you don't get. And I liked how they managed to blend the cartoon hilarity with the pain everyone's experiencing. Dean gets to live his dream of summoning the anvil and sticking his hand into the black hole, but when he mutters the cartoon tag lines…

If you're tired of the Winchesters it might be time for a new show. The focus is going to get narrower, not broader.

The US has a decent share of white people's magic—hence my original question about Pennsylvania hexes (was that the example I used? If not...here, have another one.)

Here's what that position raises for me:

Is it an exclusive connection?

I'm not sure I want to dig deeply into what contributes to having a mermaid zombie kink, but in general all I need from the concept is some lurching, groaning, decaying manflesh.

It's, like, the third thing you say!

It is a spoiler, but I think you'll find the scenes in question plenty disturbing after having read that fact (I still do, and I watched it), plus there other nice and shocky things happening.

Even Wildlife Extra, although it asks the species question in its headline doesn't use the word in the actual article. Either we have fallen for the clickbait, or the IO9 author has, or he has a source that he's not cited.

So far the species claim is implied by Wildlife Extra, but never stated (ah, the magic of the headline-as-question), and stated by George here. The study itself makes no such claim. So the first step seems to be to ask Dvorsky where he has gotten his information from, because it's not either of his cited sources.

Are we the smug atheists who don't read enough science fiction, or are we the choir that now needs to take this information to where the smug atheists are, which is not here, the site about science fiction?