Or too big a fan of Chipotlaway and iron supplements, one of the two.

It’s possible that it’s my childhood neglect speaking, but have you tried letting your kids enjoy some unstructured free time? Like, the only rules are that it can’t hurt anyone or damage anything, and that at the end you have to learn something. I used to go nuts with that much freedom. And by “go nuts”, I of course…

Read it again a few years back. It holds up really well, perhaps even better given that I’ve seen how easy it is to screw up a Star Wars story.

Good thing for those who like irking the hell out of me, they also have complete lack of tapering on the leg. How the devil that guy walks around with ankles and knee joints that are a) muscled in and of themselves, when on actual humans that’s just where the muscles attach to the bone, and b) has ankles that appear…

That’s true, but it’s also the case that this is one of those “lies, damned lies and statistics” kind of things that underplays what that 8% means. Because that 8% isn’t a one-off thing.

It’s not about the incumbent being “bad”; it’s about the incumbent not keeping up with the times. The incumbent is, essentially, one of those residual Chicago Irish Democrats that served as the backbone of the Democratic Party back in the 50's and early 60's. Lipinski’s father, in fact, literally was one of those…

Yeah, the goal of individual-level acts like social distancing is not ultimately to reduce the total number of infected. At this stage, a pandemic is inevitable, and the question is most likely not if you get the disease, but when, and how severely it sets in.

When we’re talking about the general electorate that votes in Presidential elections, this small part of the Democratic electorate becomes even more insignificant. Elections are a numbers game. Young voters (and Latinx voters) have not been able to push Bernie Sanders to win by a significant margin in most states…

This honestly isn’t true, because the demographics Sanders has staked his campaign on are unreliable voters. They couldn’t even carry him to the Democratic nomination, much less carry him to victory in a general election.

Unsurprisingly, Barbara Ehardt, the Republican sponsor of the bill in the House, worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom when crafting the bill, and has defended the bill under the guise of “fairness.” Allowing boys and men to compete against girls and women shatters our dreams,” Ehardt said in an interview,…

Bought the game back in 2018, briefly played through some of White Orchard, found it to be a slog, and then shelved the game. Came back to it as a dutiful attempt to keep my interest in the franchise going after Netflix.

I think it’s important to distinguish Game of Thrones from A Song of Ice and Fire, because which one you’re talking about greatly determines how correct you are. David and Dan, I think it’s fair to say, didn’t really understand A Song of Ice and Fire, and they thought of it more as a collection of really amazing…

Yeah, my first instinct is to side with Lauren, that this is just tokenism. However, I think it’s also really important, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, to remember how important tokens can be, if they also demonstrate savvy and skill.

Thanks, sir or madam. I really appreciate it.

Witcher 3 was so good that upon completion, I immediately had to restart the game to attempt a slightly-modified playthrough, one where I definitively decide this time to stick with Triss rather than, as was the case last time, stumble ass-backwards into a relationship with Yen.

Admittedly, my only exposure to Kuhn was to sit in on a “Philosophy of Science” course, and based on the class, I’d say I’m far more in the camp of Karl Popper than Kuhn (yay, falsifiability criteria!).

Didn’t see the article. Just one of those guys who was way too invested in his philosophy studies in college, and still thinks epistemology and philosophy of language are incredibly cool subdisciplines of study that totally are useful.

Given how post-modern the evangelical movement’s conception of truth is, that doesn’t really surprise. I mean, post-modernism as an academic theory of truth was never taken all that seriously. The main insight and value of the post-modernist movement was to note that there is a fundamental distinction between what is,…

It’s one of those diseases where your bill is either small, because there’s nothing that they can really do, or it’ll cost everything you own. It attacks the lungs, and while a lot of people will just get, effectively, the symptoms of pneumonia (which is not a bed of roses, but can be dealt with essentially by eating…

Because sometimes its not an ex that you ghosted?