I’d like to believe you’ve got the better view of this.

Friends of mine in the secular movement have proposed "guideparent" as an alternative title.

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti…

That's a useful and constructive observation. I'll bite. How, in your view, should race be distributed in video gaming, percentage-wise, in order to not be nuts?

It sounds like you're all for proportional representation. Do you find it problematic that 19% of Academy members aren't African-American? (I'd hate to think there was any truth in the old stereotype about racists being notoriously inconsistent.)

Did... did you fall asleep halfway through your post?

I object to her dental face-baiting. I have a crooked smile; do I not bleed?

The Two Meowers.

I am fully irritated that no one told me to watch this show.

If you like this (and you might not), you might also like Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox: http://www.postmodernjukebox.com and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORIe….

Hamilton Nolan: "The problem with this video is that they aren't doing squats."

This is an observation which deserves to be written up in a longer essay.

It's a timely time to be talking about menstrual products. According to this petition opened last week at WhiteHouse.gov:

Some forms of make-believe can be dangerous.

Since it is of no interest to me to beat further the dead horse that is the observation that Bachmanns departure is good riddance to rubbish, I'll share two interesting things about this aphorism:

Thank you! This comes just in time for me to tell someone I want it for Xmas.

A wonderful piece about the search for the scent of the Nile: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/…

The practice of fraternal dueling is why German cinema villains traditionally have a prominent facial scar. (Which would be not schnitt, pardon my typo above: it's schmitte, or schmisse.)

Check out:

Used to be you'd have some young German men so hungry for the honor afforded to anyone bearing a dueling scar or schnitt on their face that they'd make the cut themselves with a razor, and then run ordure or horsehair into the wound so it would heal ragged, like the real thing.

I'm not sure I follow you entirely, but I think I understand better now your view of things. And for my part, committing to an ongoing process of vigilance, for change over time, seems pretty reasonable.