Somebody should have built an entire gym onto my apartment by now.

Man, I actually am fat and no one has ever gifted me with a treadmill. Where’s my treadmill?

This is what I’ve never understood about these discussions. We’re literally looking into the past and our ability to do even THAT is fairly new. It just screams of hubris as people declare this stuff impossible.

No, we’re just too primitive ourselves to really be able to travel or reach out.

The book points out that while Cixi used the money earmarked for the expansion of the navy to reconstruct the summer palace, she only spent interest accrued through placing the money in foreign banks, never touching the principal amount. It took her nearly a decade to complete the restoration as she had to routinely…

Empress Cixi was a fascinating person who lead an incredible life. Jung Chang’s biography is an important work that seeks to undo more than a century of criticism lobbed at the woman who managed to hold the Qing Dynasty (and China itself) together in its waning years. The book is an interesting and entertaining read,…

That scene in Mama where the little girls are playing with a blanket just at the edge of the frame and suddenly the blanket shoots to the roof and the younger little girl floats by dangling from the end of it freaked my husband right out.

What? The hell are you talking about? Men have been made obsolete? Hmm, no they haven’t. Even if we accept your premise that women don’t need men for reproduction - which is totally false - since when do we humans fuck only for reproduction?

I was wondering about that too - what are they afraid to tell us about it? A lovingly prepared infusion of chilled monkey brains? Tears harvested by children’s hands from the tenders cheeks of a lightly tortured panda?

Frankly, ALL students should take a semester of home ec, or whatever they call it. Most of these kids are going to be living on their own some day, and will need to know how to keep a house, cook basic nutritious foods, and mend clothing; and most of them are going to eventually have kids of their own that they’ll…

We could give Naseeruddin Shah another, better shot at it.

If you’re in the NYC area this weekend, Joe Bob Briggs is hosting a screening of The Apple at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers.

I love Nichelle Nichols. Growing up watching original Star Trek in syndication, Uhura was my favorite character, and the actress herself is an inspiration when she discusses all of what else was going on (especially the story of her talking about the show with MLK).

I’m going to buy it, but probably not read it till later in life. If I don’t read it, then in my mind, it hasn’t happened yet.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I... I don’t want to read it. Then I’ll be done reading Pratchett’s work. And I don’t want that.

It depends on what you mean by “smart”. They were certainly gifted thinkers but they were also unmistakably men of their time. Just about any modern Med school student probably knows more than the smartest Doctor of the 18th century about curing disease. Likewise, we know a ton of shit about governing that they…

Chronically, who the fuck said anything about chronic use, do you think before you post, ever?The establishment state and its propaganda on “experience” has made you stupider already. Gather your own facts, gain some personal experience before you pontificate about such things. Also, Christianity has been dead set…

I’d like see this, things like it, and LSD, and or variants made legal for spiritual and recreational use as desired, even if via a Dr’s oversight. LSD specifically is supposed to be among the prime substances used by Silicone Valley entrepreneurs to get a mental edge on creativity, and high levels of insight. Which…

A couple years ago I heard an NPR story where they concluded most online pharmacies were actually pretty reliable—they’d have to be for any chance of repeat business, wouldn’t they?

May I present to you: “Kurdish women fighters wage war on Islamic State in Iraq”

I’d happily burn shit down to get the right to vote rather than leave it all in the hands of men.