The most epic martial arts match you'll ever see.

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Is there any Latin root more versatile than "-ject"?

Reject -- throw back
Deject -- throw down
Project -- throw forward
Subject -- throw under
Conjecture -- thing thrown together
Abject -- throw away
Inject -- throw in
Eject -- throw out
Object -- throw against

I dunno. My brain just asks these things sometimes.

Oh, wow. It's on YouTube.

Before it's discovered and taken down:

This is worth 20 minutes of your time, especially if you're an old-school Doctor Who fan.

Pulling out to the top level a few more thoughts on the sexual harassment Readercon situation

I've been expressing some thoughts in the comments of the previous post which I kind of want to pull out to the top-level. So I'm doing so.

A bunch of what I'm going to be saying is either stuff I've said before, or is implicit in stuff I've said before, so I'm probably repeating myself. But I'm trying to stack it up in a slightly more illuminating, I hope, manner.

Again, I'm cut-tagging this, so people who don't want to see it don't have to.
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