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• Commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  I now expect there to be some raving loon character in an upcoming Laundry Files book that gives you the opportunity to copy-paste GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA, over and over again, for several pages in the same sort of style as...
• Commented on Do my Homework
  Didn't Harry Turtledove already write fairly extensively about this subject or something very similar?...
• Commented on Sitrep
  Since I missed those comments in the mid-200's about Madoka... on a related theme there's always Ane Naru Mono, where a young boy accidentally summons Shub-Niggarauth and wishes for it to be his older sister or there's Saya no Uta...
• Commented on Sitrep
  I know I'm really late to this party Charlie, but the "alternative" magical girl story line with power coming from what would generally be perceived as a a dark/evil source has been HEAVILY overdeveloped in Japan for years and years....
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  My insurance company used the excuse of a lack of frequent hurricanes to raise rates. There must be a big one coming soon and bond rates are still low so we're raising the cost of your policy....
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  FEMA could get another go around from recently appointed deputy chief of staff at the White House, one Kirstjen Nielsen who, over a decade ago, was an instrumental failure as the senior director for preparedness and response at the White...
• Commented on Houston: what are the long-term consequences?
  Regarding home salvageability, it depends on how old the home is, how many corners were cut in its construction, its elevation, and how long it remains flooded. The most basic answer which ignores nearly all of that is for any...
• Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
  You'd have both houses, namely all the Republicans and quite a few Third Way/ Blue Dog Democrats trying to stonewall and stymie President Sanders at every turn....
• Commented on Radio silence
  Confederate nationalism? no. For the wealthy there is a real WASP-y ingrained bigotry towards blacks, hispanics, white catholics (and certain other christian denominations) and jews get a double helping for being jewish as well as potentially being "new money" that...
• Commented on Radio silence
  In the US it's not necessarily being rejected for having a degree, but having an above average IQ can definitely get one rejected from being a beat cop. There was at least one discrimination suit over this and the department's...
• Commented on Radio silence
  So how would the black pharaoh react to descriptions of him/it as Nyaruko-chan? It was a novella, cartoon, and comic series that ran in Japan the better part of a decade ago. Any sort of censorship response from the New...