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1. operabuff says

   11 January 2017 at 9:10 pm

   Well, I know some bromeliads are tasty; my family just enjoyed a pineapple for dessert!

2. chigau (ever-elliptical) says

   11 January 2017 at 10:20 pm

   Who is eating who?
   mm

3. Azkyroth, B*Cos[F(u)]==Y says

   11 January 2017 at 11:32 pm

   …I’m probably not supposed to be turned on by that. O.o

4. petrander says

   12 January 2017 at 4:27 am

   I am being slammed on some YouTube video about Ayaan Hirsi Ali being bigoted against muslims, which I find hard to believe, but I am willing to learn more. I know Sam Harris has made some questionable claims, but how bad is Hirsi Ali? And did she really defend Anders Breivik?

5. martha says

   12 January 2017 at 7:30 am

   And Terry Pratchett’s Bromeliad Trilogy is lovely, although it’s one of the ones he wrote for kids.

6. sigaba says

   12 January 2017 at 11:55 am

   @petrander It would be difficult to surprise me about anything Ayan Hirsi Ali said about Muslims.

   She is to Islam as Ayn Rand is to Communism, a completely off-the-rails militant who is feted throughout the west because she’s well-spoken and has the right enemies. There was a time in the late aughts where she would flatly call for the world abolition of Islam and a western war against it, and claimed that Islam, the religion, was tantamount to fascism.

   Her statement on Breivik was pretty equivocal. She blamed “advocates of silence” for Breivik — basically, political correctness made him do it.