I feel the same. Benji just totally kills me, largely because it is about East Ohio and I'm from West Pennsylvania so it's the first thing since The Deer Hunter that talks about 'my people.' But I don't actually care about Mark Kozelek himself I guess because when he's not talking about his cousins and childhood…

Mark Knopfler?

Dale Cooper and Audrey Horne. It would totally violate the tenor and themes of the show, but I'd love an alternate reality spin off where they leave Twin Peaks and go around the country solving weird crimes like a more fun and more hot Mulder and Sculley.

I don't see how you differentiate between a fetus and a parasite, which surely you would acknowledge is an individual organism and not a part of the woman's body. Nor do I see how the use of a placenta disproves the fetus having a discrete body and self contained metabolism. Part of the placenta is tissue of the…

By your criteria here a tape worm would seem to be a part of a woman's body, not an individual organism. Regardless of its environment or means of sustenance, an individual organism is identifiable by its discrete body, its self contained metabolism and growth, and its separate telos. A fetus is not an independent…

Yeah it's not meant to be a comparable situation, it just establishes the principal that in fact we do sometimes legally and morally require one person to use her body to maintain the life of another. The article here it not arguing that in a situation where the life of the mother is at risk she should be allowed to…

With lyrics Ayn Rand would love and "politics" out of a 90's Rage Against the Machine video, I just want to congratulate Beyonce for commodifying identity politics and glorifying plutocracy in such a cool way. While the Qaddafis are no longer around to transfer wealth stolen from poor Africans to her, lots of liberal…

What is explicitly political in it is its open celebration of plutocracy.

Most people are moderate on most of those issues. Most people see abortion as an occasionally necessary evil, not a morally neutral occasion for joy. Even most pro-choice Democrats, including Hillary Clinton until recently, see it this way.

That's true, but by the same token we don't kill people to provide others with bodily integrity, do we? And in fact I think we might require (I'd take issue with "force" since we're not imposing the relationship) people to use their bodies to keep other people alive if the person being obligated entered freely into…

Did you mean something like it's not 'living a life' so it is not possible to 'murder' it?

Yes of course. One key difference between a tumor and a fetus is that the fetus is an individual organism while the tumor is tissue of an organism, but yes obviously both are alive and can be killed. These are matters of biology, not of ethics or spirituality or something.

There are a lot of questions up for debate when it comes to abortion, but whether or not they zygote/embryo/fetus/baby is alive is not one of those things. Whatever that thing is, it is alive and it gets killed by abortion. That's a matter of indisputable scientific fact.

"isn't alive"?

My wife bought a used copy of this for me for Christmas and this review had made such an impression that I really had to fake a "Wow, cool, Mario" response. But no - this game is tons of fun. I haven't played SMB3 or World since they were new but I don't remember having as much fun with Mario since then. It's way more…

Boris Grebenshikov just sounds like Arcade Fire. He should have waited 20 years and pretended to be Canadian.

What was the major fight in the Sonic fandom in mid 2000's that the article references?

But it's not just a reward system recognizing previous work (and though Anderson's is higher quality, leading 7 seasons of Californication was higher profile), it's competing with whatever other offers the actors may have, how in demand they are. If one actor is in higher demand and is commanding higher pay from any…

Oh, ha, yeah I did not watch the last few seasons, so maybe a someone will only be reappearing in the Black Lodge scenes?

If Dawson's Creek were remade would you expect Michelle Williams, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes, and James Vanderbeek to be offered the same money? I would expect them to be ranked in the order I listed them because of how much success they've had since then, regardless of fact that each is equally integral to the…