"It looks to me like you were banned for being persistently petty to the moderators when they deleted your comment (which was within their right to do.)"

I made it quite clear why I was directing my concerns towards him: he co-founded a group with John Shore that purports to be opposed to bigotry. He doesn't have time to take a stand against everyone he prominently associates with? Your response suggests that you didn't bother reading my post.

"Your comments are pedantic, pretentious, annoying, trolling, and assholish. "

The issue is not that they're responsible for what someone said in the comments. The issue is that they claim to have a comment policy prohibiting rudeness, but did not enforce that against the poster making bigoted statements, gave every indication that they did not see anything wrong with the statements, and gave…

Actually, the linguistic term "gender" came first, and originally just referred to the concept that nouns were sorted into different categories and given different pronouns based on those categories. But then sex (which originally referred to whether someone was male or female) started being used to mean…

There are people who have a specific label that refers just to them, or only to them and a small fraction of the population, and they expect you to remember that label and use it to refer to them? What a bizarre concept!

You mean "defused"?

If I may step onto the soapbox for a moment: There's a guy named John Shore with a blog, and in the comments, it was asserted that atheism is profoundly offensive, a form of prejudice, highly similar to homophobia, and basically a form of anti-semitism. When I complained, I was banned.

Also, according to some religious doctrines, while murder simply rejects the value of a particular person, suicide reject the value of life itself, and is an insult to God because you are telling Him that his creation is worthless. Plus, in Christianity you can repent for murder, but you cannot repent for suicide.…

I'm not a reviewer, but What Lies Beneath is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Can anyone explain the voting stuff to me? How in the world is "Give all the votes to the guy with double letters" even remotely a plausible failure mode? Was he the only one with double letters? How did no one notice that something strange was going on?

There were a few other timelines, such as the ones created in White Tulip. And the Observers must have come from a different timeline as well.

Jeremy's iron.

Logically airtight? Seriously? If Peter was erased from the timeline, how was the machine activated? If they got The Machine from the First People, and the First People were really them, then where did The Machine come from? How does Olivia's love for Peter in one timeline allow her to remember him in another?

Why they "had" to go back, and why they thought they should go back are two different issues. Tecumseh addressed why Jack thought he was supposed to go back, MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin addressed Hurley, and Knifey James addressed Sayid and Sun. Kate was largely talked into it by the others.

After the flash-forward, was the show set in 2004 with flash-forwards to 2007, or was it set in 2007 with flashbacks to 2004?

By "none of the them", do you mean none of the Oceanic Six, or none of the people you listed? Because Hurley and Kate survived.

Actually, if they had steered towards the iceberg, they probably would have flooded just the front compartment, rather than scraping all along the side and flooding several compartments.

By the symmetric property of equality, that means that if you rape a woman, that's no worse than looking at her with lust in your heart. But then, they probably didn't that far in school.

I didn't realize that overdubbing of multiple recordings of a 40-piece orchestra fell under the category of "simplistic pop music".