Since you seem intent on really digging into this, I'll go toe to toe, inter alia.

"Ridiculous..."

"This middle ground is just a waste of money with endlessly different scales."

TOTALLY fake. You can see the pixels.

I'm hard put to see how any even very focused R&D effort would be able to develop the Mule technology further than where it is now. Whereas you can imagine a robotic mule this year being sub-mule, and in five years hitting mule levels of functionality, and in ten years of further development performing in ways and…

Upping the ante, excellent.

"Three months' pay — buy her a ring that shows her you're a real man."

(This message brought to you by the American Society of Ring Salespeople.)

When I proposed to my fiancee, she got her great-grandmother's diamond ring (her grandmother had given it to me the first time she and I met — no pressure there!). Had I not had this heirloom, she would have gotten whatever silver ring on Etsy we both got the biggest kick out of.

A few weeks later, fiancee gave ME a…

I cannot comment on the accuracy of that image in representing the frolics of small press literary publishers without compromising the security of American letters.

Poems, despite being the constituent elements of poetry, do not actually poe.

"My degree was in Physics and Math and I believe in hard data-driven measurable science."
Presumably you believe also in one knowing whereof one speaks, as well; in which case, I trust that you spent at least a few hours engaging with even elementary linguistics before allowing yourself to issue an opinion on the…

I could tell by your good taste and intelligence.

Hi! I'm Zachary, a writer and secular activist based in Boston. I run a small press, with imprints for new writing (poetry and prose), world theatre in translation, speculative fiction, and a dozen journals at any given time (either our own productions, or editorial projects with which we are partnered). I am the…

"Free will is just another kind of cause."

How about a shout-out to Aubrey de Gray, and his team at the Methuselah Foundation? Their cross-disciplinary work over the past decade — and its culmination in SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) — has been largely responsible for making plausible the idea of radical life extension with minimal…

I actually think the local Red Men lodge meets on Mondays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved_…

Shout-out to Aubrey de Gray, the Methuselah Foundation, and SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) — the researchers and research initiatives that in the past ten years have pulled together a lot of data and done a lot of thoroughly cross-disciplinary assessment to make credible the idea of radical…

"... to denote genre fiction as other than genre fiction".

Or to signal the author's concern with a different set of methods, aims, or readers. Perhaps we read different publications (or grind different axes).

However unneeded the term may seem to you, it is already used widely in scholarship, criticism, and trade publications.

I'm excited about this kind of forward-thinking program investment. It's too bad the BSA still excludes nontheist Scouts from participating in its programs.