Here is the text from Wil Wheaton's incredibly thoughtful and insightful speech at Denver Comic Con to a young girl who was being bullied at school ( Read more... )

http://youtu.be/zQucWXWXp3k

I was just reading a blog post by a woman who was talking about the sexism of marketing, particularly in relation to the exclusion of women from the gaming industry (in advertising audience in particular). And this topic kind of bothered me. But not for the reasons you might think ( Read more... )

"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?smid=pl-shareRead more... )

So at various points during the day, I check out the news and peruse articles which interest me.  So I was glancing through one about Katt Williams having a freak out on stage when I saw a list of links at the bottom of the page, featuring other news articles ( Read more... )

It amuses me to no end that people consider someone to be a "celebrity", will believe anything that comes out of that "celebrity"'s mouth, and will also believe that if that "celebrity" considers themselves wronged (even if that "celebrity" was breaking the law) that it's the law's fault and that the police are obviously on a power trip and out to ( Read more... )

Just a quick little observation... Max Landis (http://youtu.be/0PlwDbSYicM) was talking about how Superman as Clark Kent was a diss on his view of humans because he--a super-strong, super-fast, super-etc being--was "dumbing" himself down to "fit in with the humans.  However, I was just ( Read more... )

(I just wanted to repost the text from his post here because it's very wise. Thank you, Jason ( Read more... )

Yes, I know the irony of posting this here, but I doubt all of you want me calling you at 7am on a Sunday. *grins ( Read more... )