Who's the biggest protagonist prick on TV? House?
Dexter.
She's terse. I can be terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Apr 16, 2011 6:28:14 am PDT #3551 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 6:53:33 am PDT #3552 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ Meyers
My favorite typo EVAR. Can you imagine how much awesome we'd get from a hybrid of JZ and PZ Meyers? There would probably be some kind of too-much-awesome-splosion.
I think Richard Dawkins is someone who's so enamoured of biology that he forgets to disclaim about social context when he gets on a roll. And when it's pointed out to him that many people are twisting biological facts to suit their own pseudoscientific goals (evo-psych etc), his attitude is "why should that matter when I'm talking about SCIENCE?" Those people are so obviously wrong that they're not worth addressing. So yes, he's a bit dense, but his heart is in the right place. I think.
Cashmere - Apr 16, 2011 6:58:54 am PDT #3553 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
As an Atheist, I'd rather have Dawkins speaking for me than Hitchens.
Consuela - Apr 16, 2011 7:08:27 am PDT #3554 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Word, Cash. Hitchens pisses me off. Although I'm not really an atheist.
Typo Boy - Apr 16, 2011 7:25:33 am PDT #3555 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I am an atheist and Hitchens totally pisses me off. Though mostly it is the right wing pro-war, muslim bashing and anti-woman stuff.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:30:20 am PDT #3556 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
As an Atheist, I'd rather have Dawkins speaking for me than Hitchens.
Oh HELL yes.
Polter-Cow - Apr 16, 2011 7:32:35 am PDT #3557 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Who's the biggest protagonist prick on TV? House?
Dexter.
Really? You think he's actually a prick or you're just upgrading him because he's a murderer and killing people is prickish in your book? I think Walter White is more of a prick than Dexter.
Allyson - Apr 16, 2011 7:37:39 am PDT #3558 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
HA! I was so surprised that there was a JZ Meyers and thought this JZ should be introduced to PZ Myers and then it was the same person.
I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.
PZ's head once exploded when he posted about a paper by Jesse Bering (who is probably the most clownish of the current evo psych assholes) about the head of the penis having evolved its shape to "scoop out competitor's sperm."
His experiment? Squirt some viscous goo into a fleshlight, and use a dildo to scoop it out.
SERIOUSLY? When PZ called him on it by inquiring whether the dildo had a foreskin (among other obvious problems), Bering posted a whiny retort about how ethics prevented him from using human models and boo hoo.
SO WHY ARE YOU PUBLISHING RESULTS AS IF YOU HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN BIOLOGY, THEN?????
Seriously. Fleshlight.
sumi - Apr 16, 2011 7:39:16 am PDT #3559 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Man, it is cold, wet and windy here today. I'm on campus waiting for Check-in for NIUCares Day to start. (I'm working check in.) Students are starting to get here. I wondered - given the weather what the turn-out would be. (This is the second shift - shift 1 had an 8 am check-in but staff had to be here at 6... I'm glad I got the choice.)
Also - somebody has made Batman and Joker amigurumi.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:44:24 am PDT #3560 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.
Oh yeah, chemists do this all the time. Physicists too.