It wouldn’t be too much to ask for in 2015. 2017 is a bit of a reach.

I imagine there are incomprehensible amounts of politics involved, but wouldn’t the smartest thing be for the Boy and Girl Scouts to merge?

There’s also the entirely remote possibility that they have spent time in each other’s presence, and found them to be affable and fun to talk to in person.

No. Worse: haul him into a courtroom and stand trial in front of a jury of his peers, be found (obviously) guilty, and serve the sentences for his crimes.

Grave of the Fireflies and Barefoot Gen are both historical tragedies about life in Japan near the end of WWII. Grave of the Fireflies is the longest sustained sadness I’ve ever seen committed to film, but Barefoot Gen is an autobiographical telling of what happened to Hiroshima before and after the a-bomb was…

I figure the point is that Rick is the smartest man in the universe, but is lightyears away from being the wisest. I think the show is trying to point out that intelligence is just a tool, and if you don’t know how to use it to be happy, using it to get beer and magic turtles isn’t going to help.

Jared: I want to be a lady.

This is very much an io9 thread now.

The curators of the exhibition hope that viewers will consider why the artists produced it and what they may be saying about the social conditions of globalization and the complex nature of the world we share.

Animators (and artists in general) are all perverts. I guarantee, every single animator working at Disney has drawn at least one of the princesses naked for their own personal viewing pleasure.

Steven freakin’ Spielberg had to fight really hard to make a movie about Abraham freakin’ Lincoln that starred Daniel-Day-freakin’ Lewis, so maybe A-List ain’t what it used to be.

Boycotts don’t work anymore.

His inner monologue starts with a description of roadkill, and goes on to describe how he’s better than everyone else, and wants... most people to die. He’s a smelly bum sitting on a rooftop writing about how New York “is afraid of me,” who apparently eats nothing but stolen beans and sugar cubes.

Watchmen is better suited for TV than film, yes. It’s also better suited for comics than TV.

People are complicated. Every reason people hate Woody Allen can also be applied to Einstein and Ghandi. Does that mean they didn’t do good things? No. Does that mean they weren’t seriously creepy? No.

I think it would be cool if the next edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to come out illustrated him as black.

Shkreli has business associates who are just as dickish as he is. Once he’s served his time, he’ll have a cushy job with a fat paycheck waiting for him, and he’ll continue to do what he’s always done, with the approval of his bosses. He made a million dollars once, he can do it again.

To be fair, has there been any evidence that, if freed, he would not immediately go back to abusing humanity?

Claymation. The Shkreli puppet is sculpted out of shit.