why planes need bathroom ashtrays. if someone lights up anyway, they still need to stub it out ( Read more... )

From Memory Alpha on the Menagerie:

Now, confined to a wheelchair, Pike is disfigured and cannot speak, though his mind is unimpaired. His sole means of communication is a flashing light with an accompanying beep: once for yes, twice for no.You know, given that this was made in 1966, and that Gene Roddenberry had served extensively in the ( Read more... )

Title is a bit misleading ( Read more... )

Depressing
* Troops weren't deployed to help with Katrina
* Systematic child abuse in Irish reform schools
* Obama seeking indefinite detentions
* Blackwater tries to rebrand as "Xe"
* Creepy Bible briefings, the better to manipulate Bush with.
* Steele's latest brainstorm for opposing gay marriage: it'll cost small business money. Unlike, say, ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dykes_to_Watch_Out_For#The_Bechdel_test

Or am I forgetting something? I guess Uhura and her nameless Orion roommate talked very briefly about Uhura's work, so maybe a partial pass.

There's a blog but it went on hiatus ( Read more... )

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