I used to teach at a college near Ft. Bragg. We made half-jokes about being a divorce machine - give the wives (I had one military husband in seven years) a degree (mostly teacher-ed degrees), and they were out the door. I sure didn't blame them, or their husbands for that matter. They had married so young, and then…

You did indeed grow up with games. But we Gen-Xrs had video games in the '80s, so we no only grew up with them, we're growing old with them!

She's Latina, so yeah, she'll be arrested on a Very Special Episode.

YESSSSS! I just got back from the vet, who kept calling me "Dad" and even "Pops" (I know!) in reference to my cat. THE CAT IS NOT MY FURRY CHILD! WRONG SPECIES!

No, just heavily armed guys pointing their weapons at federal officials enforcing the law. Had they not been white, of course, they would have all been gunned down.

A reasonable list. That all of us keep in our heads, but do not announce to the world.

Well I don't have a sweet tooth, so I avoid excess sugar. I dislike the paleo diet because it is fake. It has zip to do with what our ancient ancestors ate (as if they all ate the same diet anyway), and is further based on the odd notion that the human race is unchanged over the last several thousand years. That's…

"Gluten Friendly"? Do these people speak English? Because that would seem to mean the opposite of what they are trying to suggest.

Oh the gluten-free no carbs people - how you make me nuts. (Actual Celiac suffers excluded, for all the obvious reasons.) Yes, because bread, which has sustained us for thousands of years, is not in fact poison. Oh, and if for bonus points they are also paleo-diet people, well I'll just be jumping off a bridge right…

I think by "hard to animate" they mean "we're just not happy with our boob jiggle physics yet."

And then there are the mods. While there are in fact a few highly sexual mods focusing on male characters, there are about a million (give or take, I haven't counted) focused on women. But yes, the vanilla game is pretty good about those things.

It's like one of my "paint" shirts, from maybe that time I painted the ceiling.

Uh, no. If you have not been told, don't ask. That's pretty basic.

I learned at a young age I could finish quickly any reading/writing/research task that took most other people a lot more time. I got myself into a line of work where that's most of what I do. And I have come to conclude that it's really just about me being lazy. I found something easy and ran with it.

The Rapture. But it turned out none of us qualified, so it has been postponed.

I had a rural childhood, in which it was perfectly normal for me to tell my parents that I was going to go play in the woods for a few hours, and the world did not end. I didn't realize how wonderful that was until I was much older.

Demonstrating again that sociopaths are good at faking it.

And you don't get it. It's another language.

I read the first sentence of the abstract and knew this guy didn't read the same book I did. At no point does Pinker argue that anyone was "morally retarded and less intelligent." A lot of folks have a lot invested in the idea that we are just so awful today and don't want to give that up. There's a reason Pinker…

No, it is relevant. Making people live in fear all the time by convincing them we live in terribly dangerous times benefits only the authoritarians. People need to be given the information to enable them to put these spectacular instances into perspective and realize that by and large this is a very safe time to be…