My wife and I are some of the few people out there who love Bob's Burgers. But, then again, I was a big Home Movies fan as well, which always had more cult status than actual success. When Bob's Burgers is "on", it's funnier than nearly any other show out there.

I mean, a science fair project that is a musical between Thomas Edison and the elephant he electrocuted... How is that not hilarious?

The point is Akin is using pseudoscience (and a religiously focused "doctor") to support his religious belief about abortion. His religious beliefs dictate his view, in direct contradiction to scientific facts, which is the problem that the video is addressing.

It doesn't, and that's not what Nye is saying either. He's saying that your religious beliefs that directly dispute scientific facts makes you part of the less educated populace who makes decisions and vote in ways that are illogical.

Todd Akin's religious beliefs (and the loony doctor he listens to) makes him bad at understanding reproductive systems, and therefore bad at his job.

You and your old professor just got lucky that the bible is fairly quiet on missile systems and superstrings.

You don't get debates from liberals because you make stuff up. Dems only had a supermajority in the senate for four months, most of which were in recess. The republicans have used the filibuster (or threatened to fillabuster) nearly every bill, basically negating the majority. http://washingtonindependent.com/74033/the-four-month-supermajority Federal spending rose at anywhere between 3.2-5%, a rate below average, and if you start measuring the rate from October 2009, spending has been the slowest in 60 years http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/us/politics/fact-checking-obama-and-romney.html?pagewanted=all Oil drilling and fraking has been approved at a faster rate under obama than Bush II. (fraking due to technology). http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/obama-oil-drilling-up-on-my-watch/1

I cannot even watch the tape delay coverage, mostly because it goes like this "And then the Chinese had this particular event, which turned out better than they ever could have expected with a near perfect execution.." and then they preceed to show the event which they just ruined the outcome of, to the point where they were pointing out "this upcoming trick had near perfect execution". I understand having a tape delay for prime time, but most olympic events are fun to watch because the outcome is unknown and so dramatic. If you're telling me the outcome before the event, it's ruined.

If this game really is fully free (no initial cost), It is very much worth playing through with at least one class to level 50 if you're looking for Kotor 3. I'm sorry you can't pause combat, but the actual story and gameplay felt very kotor3, and was awesome until you ran out of story. There was one dungeon around level 30 that should be played by every kotor fan.

FB's failing is due to it's users, mostly. About 3-6 months ago, everyone decided that pictures with text on them is all they were going to post. Or food pictures, or Spotify playlists.

Facebook was never awesome, but it did have a lot of my friends and family posting interesting discussions and information. Then everyone ran out of things to say, so now they just post funny pictures.

A lot of this isn't just users fault though, many issues arise out of the lack of Grouping, which is something G+ fixes and is awesome at. I don't want my pictures of partying being shown to employers, or my neices and nephews which causes issues with my conservative siblings. Sorting what information I want to send to select groups easily is the main reason I wish people were using G+.

No kidding. Catan is more fun when you get to tweak the rules to your liking. We play a variant where you play explorers, starting with some basic goods and flipping over tiles as you go. It leads to very uneven games where one player wins quickly, but it's still lots of fun, and keeps people interested in playing, rather than the standard variant where one person can pull ahead early and then the game isn't fun while you sit with no ability to even play the few cards you get. We also never play with the robber, too much direct conflict for most groups. 7 Rolls you just give half your cards to the person who rolled seven, instead of discarding them. Anyway, enough of this tangent...

Boardgames will always be better without a digital babysitter making sure you play by the rules

Grades make the most sense for game reviews for me, or, put another way, converting a star system to grades is the best way to think of it. 0-star = 0-59%, 1 star = 60-69%, 2 star = 70-79%, 3 star = 80-89%, 4 star= 90-100%

I find it very important to think of games this way because technical incompetence (much like failing comprehension or ability with grades) is such a large part of gaming. There needs to be that large bottom half of the scale to allow for certain technical failures, which render the game "broken". A game that doesn't work for several reasons, no matter how great the story or graphics, gets a failing grade due to it being broken. It might get a High F for effort, but it still fails the fundementals. This is different from Filmmaking or movies, where no matter how technically competent the images you put on the screen, the movie will play and you'll see the movie. You (the filmmaker) cannot fail to show what you meant to show. Games, OTOH, can have technical issues that prevent you from seeing the game. This also makes meta-reviews less meaningful, because technical issues for one person might not appear for another, drastically increasing the stddev for reviews.

There's two flip-out reactions about this console 1) It's a Kickstarter scam to steal money and always be vaporware or 2) It's an underpowered box that will be laughed out of the market because It's so underpowered and stupid that any Phone will be better than this box by the time it's released and AAA developers won't make any games for it.

Gamers are notorious armchair analysts who usually have no idea what they're talking about. (See: Xbox360 vs PS3 hardware power arguments when they were launched) Gamers should be cautious, mostly due to Kickstarter's sketchyness, but I don't see why this Kickstarter is any more suspect than other Kickstarters.

It's a foot in the door though. Android (and portable) gaming has no central hub. The first company to create one that supports a controller, a ranking system, and an ecosystem of development will take hold of the space. I'm honestly surprised that Steam hasn't done anything yet in mobile gaming.

If you can create an open box like this with a store and a controller, the TV box becomes secondary to the store and the OS compatability. The store is there to enforce a few rules (supports free gameplay in any form, even if just a demo, no hax, possibly multiplayer, will run on the set top box, etc), then you can use that storefront to refine the purchase of games. For instance, you could show correctly if a game has the information to scale to a TV size screen, or back down to a phone size. You also get a controller with standardized input, which is a huge deal for games. I think that if this is successful, it will be a huge win for indie gaming and gaming advancement in general. It won't kill more powerful consoles, but it is filling a hole in the market.

Meant to say "everyone who walks through the emergency room doors".... since clearly not everyone can get treated for anything for free, only emergency situations...

Congress making up new rediculous taxes from now on? You must be new here. This is standard operating procedure. The ruling also holds that a specific tax like this needs to meet a high standard to stay constitutional according to the SC. If this were a sane country who actually cared about cost and deficits, this "tax" would have been implemented back when we made it manditory that all hospitals that accept medicare must treat everyone who walks in the door, regardless of ability to pay. This is years overdue for such a policy to balance the books fairly.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/with-romney-all-but-the-nominee-ron-paul-snags-delegate-majority-at-maines-gop-convention/2012/05/06/gIQAjJS05T_story.html There are several stories very similar to this, if you care to read them. I'm no Ron Paul supporter, but he is working the delegate strategy, not the Popular vote money strategy, which is very savvy.

Exactly. In several states where delegates are non-committed, Paul has walked away with the majority of delegates, even if he lost the popular vote.