Fasten first? Or zip first?

It's a bit too late for the characters in BSG to suddenly develop macabre senses of humor, but all the same, they could have learned a lesson from B5 (which I'm redownloading).

I remember the overload I went through when I watched that show way too fast. I can imagine how much worse it'd be with BSG. It's a good show, but you don't get a chance to *breathe* in between! No conversations about zippers! No practical jokes! Every good scene goes awry in some horrible, horrible way.

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"Not every conversation has to be the end of the world as we know it."

Indeed.

(They also had color on that show. Imagine that!)

This sort of thing pisses me off.

Two children is not a statistically relevant sample.

Two children is anecdotal evidence taken to terrifying extremes.

So the boy happens to be less dainty than the girl. Even if we could say there aren't any differences in how they're treated (yeah, right), it's two children. What can you extrapolate from two?

Nothing, that's what.

But this person is saying that "based on what I saw today"....

What she saw today is two children, raised in two different families, behaving like two different children. Wow. And there's no guarantee that this is all she saw - maybe she missed parts where they didn't act in stereotyped ways, because this wasn't as noticeable to her.

(And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why anecdotal evidence is evil and wrong and should be abolished.)

Some Times articles

An Elephant Crackup? (Long, but fascinating)

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One on overboard babyproofing

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Two on religious exemptions....

As Exemptions Grow, Religion Outweighs Regulation

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Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights

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