You’re right, which is why (as I said) I agree with the verdict in this case. But the vibe of “How insane!!” I’m getting from the comments seems strange and out of proportion to me - there are versions of of yoga practiced in the United States that would have been inappropriate for a public school. This wasn’t one of…

Fine - replace it with Christian body-building in your mind, which is a thing, or fasting, which is both religious and potentially health-oriented. The point remains there are legal and illegal ways of doing this people are papering over - unless you believe physical activities can never under any circumstances be…

If there was optional Christian prayer class, or optional Bar Mitzvah preparation, but created, offered, sponsored and advertised by administration, wouldn’t you have an issue with it? I think in this case the parents were wrong and the yoga class was fine because this particular version of the class was not religious…

If there was an optional ‘prayer to Jesus’ class sponsored by the shool in the same way, for the purpose of calming moods, even if optional, everyone on this comment board would be just as incensed as the parents, and it would be unconstitutional. In this case I agre with the courts that the version of yoga being…

I think all the Christians here can agree that the Sedlocks are dumb as shit, and they’d never even think of trying something this dumb.

On the plus side, these Christians show more respect for yoga’s spiritual component than those who practice it as pure exercise. On the down side, they’re asses.

because I'm such an eloquent talker.

Right, because Black and White and Populous sucked, not to mention how god awful Fable was!

Apologies if this is against the site's rules, but I strongly recommend that everyone have a read over this article.

I'm so sorry that, even as adults, some of us are still able to appreciate and respect the things that brought us joy as children, Kara.

Seriously. Kara has clearly never had Nesquik. Or Ronnybrook Chocolate Milk.

I haven't. I'm just active in my local BDSM scene. I'm a college student and I'm actually hosting a discussion about BDSM later tonight as part of my school's LGBT club. The kicker is that the email sent out to the club said we'd be talking about "BDSM and 50 Shades of Grey." I wasn't planning on mentioning 50 Shades,…

That's understandable, and I don't think any criticism of the book has anything to do with women finding their sexual awakening. It's just that BDSM is portrayed so badly in these books that there's no way it can be considered an accurate representation.

That's a good point, and something the New York Times' AO Scott brought up in his review of the movie. To paraphrase: if the book had been more sophisticated, it wouldn't be accessible to the people who would be least likely to feel comfortable asking for kinky sex stuff. It's revolutionary partly because it's so…

I really appreciate all the kind words. For what it's worth, I'm writing what I want to write and how I want to write it — with one exception — here, in ways that TR didn't afford me. I hope you'll stick around and see what else I come up with, but if not, just know that I'm okay with all this.

Apology accepted!

Here, here. What a cowardly move. Was there even a need for a public post? Would it not have been better to just simply speak to Rob in private and he'd do different articles? If the community at large here at io9 was so against it, I doubt the e-mails would have been pouring in over what became of FFF.

Have you, or the outraged readers who asked for this, considered that discontinuing FFF will *hurt* those small Fan fic writers by reducing their exposure? As the old cliche goes, "there's no such thing as bad publicity". If you're bombing hard people will want to watch you go down in flames, just as people want to…

You denied privilege of reading any fanfic either written by Ugg or involving Ugg.

Ugg not forget this. You now sworn enemy. No caveman hugs for you.