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Can we please, please STOP espouting this fake bit of "wisdom"? Female heroines sell tickets just fine when they're treated seriously, with respect they deserve.

I've resisted commenting on these threads, Annalee, because I hate being a Debbie Downer.

Have you ever read any of the works by Brandon Sanderson? The Mistborn trilogy has one of my most favorite female protagonists of the mage/warrior/assassin badass variety. Also one of his other series (Starting with my favorite book, period, the Way of Kings) has race/class divisions based purely on eye color, women…

The Spice still flows though right? Because, you know, it must.

Bob got it somewhere as well.

I'll give that one a "doy" because a major reason Rome failed was over expansion, nothing at home, everything away.

Then again Thomas Jefferson would have regretted everything modern America stands for (what's with the strong federal government, industrialization, foreign policy and marginalization of agriculture). The running joke of my AP US history class is about generating power from the perpetually spinning corpses of Hamilton…

If memory serves me right, the Islamic version of creationism is the same one that you find in the Bible.

I think thisbill is the right thing to do, but I don't have any belief this will work because people are fucking idiots.

Perhaps the tactic would be to teach Daoist, Islamic, Bhuddist, Shinto, Baha'i, Animalistic, Mexica, Incan and Northern Native American creation myths with the equal weight as Intelligent Design.

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I'd like to see the X-1 get up to 110 km altitude. No, SS2 didn't do that today, but that's because today was the first powered test; it'll be doing a lot more in time.

Those weren't privately owned ventures, obviously. Look, we all wish spaceflight was much more further along than it currently is, but instead of complaining that what is basically a commercial airline service isn't space exploration, you could root for the guys who are trying to move in that direction.