Very interesting, but incomplete in that it really only addresses four of the Mane 6, simply ignoring the two who don't fit his model. Functionally, Rarity's role in Equestrian society seems not that different from Applejack's or Pinkie Pie's -- she's more a producer than a ruler. I think you'd have to push his Marxist model pretty far to include her in the bourgeoisie and not the others. And where in Celestia's name is Fluttershy? Rainbow Dash certainly bears out his analogy between pegasi and Plato's Auxiliaries, but he doesn't even mention her polar opposite Fluttershy. Discrepancies can exist, but with only six characters to address, they need to be accounted for. Fun though!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with serious qualms about The Giving Tree. I like a lot of Shel Silverstein's work, but I despise that book. Mary Ann Glendon's quote sums it up perfectly.

I keep getting distracted by remembering that Spock actually doesn't eat animal flesh, and wondering whether the artist was thinking of that or not. Probably not, but all the same it keeps interfering with the joke.

Aw, want! But they're just Photoshopped. :(

When we moved into our school district, they had an annual daddy-daughter dance. Someone must have complained, because it was changed to the Mardi Gras dance a few years ago. I'm pretty sure it's still mostly populated by daddies and daughters, so they still get their evening out, but no one is explicitly excluded.

Early prototype M&M branding device, sadly rejected due to typo

Never grow up, Ladies M

Ooo, so nice. Sometimes I think people overdo the steampunking of things, but this is just gorgeous.

It's dangerous to eat alone. Take this.

ted - can't speak for others, but for myself, I don't hate her for being skinny. I'm pretty thin myself. But it's unlikely that anyone is that naturally thin. Those are starvation arms.

The fashion industry's fetishization of extreme, unhealthy thinness is disturbing, especially here where it's juxtaposed with thousands of calories' worth of food. I think people respond instinctively to that by wanting to reject the image and heal the girl.

There's a huge, huge difference between long-term birth control and sterilization. Offering $300 for a five-year implant is a nice incentive. Encouraging someone with impaired judgment to sell their lifelong reproductive future for $300 is sad and scary.

I know we all think we're so much wiser than "those people," so it's easy to be smug. But at some point we all make a wrong decision. How we respond to those decisions in others says a lot about us, ourselves.

He has the right to take away her laptop, which I assume he paid for. I wouldn't do it, but he has that right. But an eight-minute video diatribe culminating in gun violence? Way over the top. For that matter, if all she did in the previous instance was similarly to vent about her chores, grounding her for three months was also over the top. This guy clearly has no sense of proportion or ability to reason. Adolescent daughters are tough -- I have two -- but if he won't model reason, he has no right to expect that she'll ever demonstrate it, either.

And for the people who call this tough love, or think my children must be whiny entitled brats because I don't respond to their occasional angstiness with a half-minute shooting spree: I strongly suspect that the only lesson this guy's daughter will learn is that she can't wait to get the hell away from her father. He may possibly intimidate her into shutting up for a few years, but then she's gone, and I hope he never gets old and difficult and needy, because I can't imagine he'll be seeing much of her then.

Annoying kids are annoying, but parents are supposed to be, you know, grownups. This family's problems are way bigger than a laptop.

The FedEx logo still has that darned arrow in it.

Shoot, I remember this image! Not quite sure why, though; it might have been in a book of Frazetta's work my husband had in college (strictly because it was Art, natch).

Funny, my cats enjoy Wii sports and fitness games, but actual sports like this have never seemed to appeal to them. Although they did appear to enjoy last year's Puppy Bowl. Little pawprints abounded on the screen that time.