My aunt and uncle - who I have thankfully cut out of my life about 3 years ago, when I was 27 - CONSTANTLY brought up the fact that, when I was in 3rd grade, they gave me their old checks to play with. Said checks were useless, as they had closed the account and thought the absolute best thing to do with them was to…

Perhaps they'll even blame their relationship problems on her.

I'm really glad I like my parents.

Alright alright I'll finish the damned novel I've been working on for half a decade now. Sheesh.

I second (sixth?) the sentiment. Good Science Fiction is all about thinking about things from a different perspective than you are used to. The more varied and diverse the voices the richer the potential SciFi.

Let's just call a spade a spade....

Lizard man slavery was deemed unconstitutional.

I completely understand Quinto's point of view. Right now HIV infection rates are on the rise in the LGBTQ community, despite about a decade of steady decline. The general consensus is complacency. HIV is treatable, LGBTQ youth in today's society has no real understanding of the HIV/AIDS fear from the 80s and…

Brilliant! Nucleonically dense brilliance!

You do realise how miniscule minority of Muslim women wear burqas, right? The chances are that you've never seen one. Here's a picture for future reference:

"You remember that time when Ms Marvel became a real superhero and did a real thing that was actually kinda heroic? THAT WAS AWESOME."

Will it change minds? Or will they simply shrug and go "better ruined vacations than kids catching autism which really happens despite utter lack of proof."

maybe on the show they stab him in the hair.

Maybe

Huh? That's not short. Just a bit shorter. By the time he returns to set in summer it'll be as long as in the other pic. *shrugs* Jon of course isn't dead. Martin isn't an idiot.

*Avodillo

Uh. No.

I remember reading somewhere that there is no historical or archeological evidence for the story of Exodus, that it's myth in the same sense that the labors of Heracles or the divinity of the Roman Emperor are myths.

I've never thought that anyone with even a slight grasp on the current state of science would know immediately that that could not possibly be an *actual photo* of the Milky Way. I always assumed people just knew it was an artistic representation...?