The thing is, plonking a homosexually-involved Sam and Dean Winchester down in the middle of the greenwood makes perfect thematic sense. Behold my theories on the subject in the essay I shall call

Justifying a Silly Idea
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I Meta Me
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An Expensive Education Wasted There's a established association with the realms of the natural world and ( Read more... )

Here I am, doing my research on Vikings - a blissfully happy nerd. I want to fact check about the Rígsþula, which is the story of the origin of the different classes of Viking society ( Read more... )

TV does not rot your brain. Or, rather, it doesn't rot your brain any more than anything else does.
I can understand arguments that children shouldn't watch too much TV (and especially that they shouldn't play too many video games), because if they don't read some books, they'll be idiots, but TV is not, in itself, a moron-maker. Stupid shows ("I ( Read more... )

The Saudi king has pardoned a female rape victim sentenced to jail and 200 lashes for being alone with a man raped in the same attack, reports say.

The US had called the punishment "astonishing", although it refused to condemn the Saudi justice system.I really want to ask why we still deal with these people, but unfortunately I already know the ( Read more... )

WTF, man?

A girl on my floor just got engaged!

She's a nice girl. I like her. A lot.
BUT WTF?

We're eighteen!! Well, actually she was born five days after me! We are too young and stupid! No way! No ( Read more... )