Agreed, "might."

For what it's worth, I never encouraged my daughter to pursue stereotypically female toys or activities. She seemed to prefer them either innately, or perhaps because her friends did. I did manage to get her interested in gaming though, although I'm supportive of whatever she finds fulfilling.

Twin Peaks is/was crap. I barely made it through all the melodramatic screaming and wailing in the first episode, and lines like "Diane, if you ever get up this way that cherry pie is worth a stop." I gave it two more episodes thinking, "this has to get good at some point," but it just didn't.

I don't have a fear of nuclear, and I used to be fully in favor of it, but the reality is that accidents can and will happen. If a solar or wind plant goes offline, there's just no electricity. If a nuclear plant goes offline, it can potentially result in catastrophic contamination of the surrounding geography. That's a reality that must be factored into risk vs reward.

I have yet to meet a woman who doesn't love to talk about relationships with other women. Hers, her friends, a celebrity, whatever. It's by far the most popular subject. And while men may not talk about relationships per se, we do talk about women. A lot. In fact, there's a convincing argument to be made that everything we do is in the pursuit of securing or keeping a mate, so it's not so strange that we would talk about it, male or female. (Replace opposite sex with same sex as applicable -- this is not a hetrosexual phenomenon.)

Cartoonists are good at getting a laugh (hopefully), and on the surface this is something that people may not have noticed before it was pointed out, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. It's funny that we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway, but do we need to resolve that by rewriting our dictionaries? Probably not.

The insulting thing about the "Bechtel test" is actually that it diminishes the importance of these conversations. There is certainly a place for women in all areas of society, but insulting what many find to be the most important to them is not the way to encourage that. You don't have to shit on the volunteer fire department to encourage people to feed the homeless. We can applaud some portrayals without mocking others.

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I think incentives would work better than fines. Provide $50 tax credit for verified voters. Of course, it's just a fine defined backwards, but sometimes framing counts.

The other thing is decoupling proof of voting from *what* vote was cast.

And finally, felons should be allowed to vote. That it's taken away is perhaps the most ridiculous "punishment," especially since they have a unique perspective on the criminal justice system.

No, that's my point. The AAA titles are repetitive crap. Unfortunately, so is most everything else.

industry watchers predicting the death of dedicated video game consoles are being too pessimistic.

I'm not so sure. I've had a PS4 since release, almost a year and a half now, and there's still a dearth of titles. Around the same timeframe with the PSOne, there were more titles than I had time to play, and I had far more free time in those days. It feels like there are a handful of recurring titles dominating the landscape -- the yearly installments of Battlefield, CoD, Madden, Need for Speed, Assassin's Creed, and whatever else I'm forgetting -- and precious little else. Without games, what's the point of owning a console? Streaming media maybe, but I can get that much cheaper elsewhere, and it's even built in to many TVs these days.

I'm a reverse blanket bandit. If I don't make sure my GF is well insulated, she'll make me turn [up the heat | down the AC], and I will die of hypothermia before I lose that battle.

Speech and debate clause.

You mean how dirty phone calls are illegal? Or porn on cable TV? Or fearmongering on the Internet?

He was damn good in Desperate Housewives as well. Damn good.

Bacteria, once the largest creatures on earth, are now the smallest!!

What happened?