Post-apocalyptic currency?

Great. Then the post-apocalypse would be run by colloidal silver-drinkers.

"Before Geoff Johns came along, my perception of Green Lantern was about people who had magic rings that didn't work on yellow and whose members included a talking squirrel. I actually met him, at a friend's wedding in 2006..."

I used to use the Nike+ Fitness "App" on my "watch-style" iPod Nano. Many months ago, Nike stopped displaying the supposedly synced information online. An upgrade was allegedly coming. None ever came. That's reason #1 I picked up a Fitbit instead of a FuelBand — and also a top reason I did not buy the new Nano.

Excellent post. But I couldn't help grinning at "*Joseph Smith is a fascinating and spectacularly flawed character. I feel he is no more of a charlatan or con-man than any other person who has founded a religion. "

Also, Buffett has a financial interest in the Post, but his company is not the owner, nor does it hold a controlling stake. The Post is owned by The Washington Post Company.

Sorry about the unintended suspense! Not killing a man just to watch him die, no LARPing ... well, kind of LARPing. It was a bunch of dopey play-acting that was the same exact procedure I went through years before for a job somewhere else. I had so little desire to participate, I just couldn't work up the false front…

I was applying for a staff writer position at a publisher of investment newsletters. The interview was going OK when I was asked to take a writing and reporting test. Nothing unusual about that. But when I looked at the test, what I was asked to do seemed so ridiculous, and so soul-sucking, that I instantly had…

I hear you. My hang-up with Clone Wars is not the typical prequel issue of knowing how the characters will end up. It's that the basic premise is that the "protagonists" are living out an elaborate, galactically lethal, practical joke.

Thanks. OK, then it still sounds like a series about how dumbass all the Jedi are. No wonder they got killed off. I don't get the attraction.. For those that do, what keeps you going back week after week? I'm genuinely curious.

Sounds interesting, but I've always struggled with the whole "Clone Wars" premise. From watching the prequels, we know the Clone Wars were just ginned-up b.s. Palpatine essentially ran both sides in order to lay the groundwork for centralizing unprecedented authority. I don't need pure heroes in order to enjoy a…

OK, thanks!

Thank you, hannibal84, thank you.

This was my first episode and I found it pretty compelling. But one thing I didn't get was how Root kept Finch kidnapped. (Sure, I'd follow Amy Acker anywhere, but that's not what I mean here.) There was that scene with the cop in the restaurant, where she threatened to hurt someone he cared about if he said anything.…

Yeah, I now he's throwing a lot in there. But if I want to experience every single word of the novel, appendix, supporting material, et al I'll, you know, read the book. To me, the whole trilogy-from-one-novel plan just screams "let's soak these Tolkien fiends for every ounce of gold they've got and worry about making…

At the risk of sounding troll-y (orc-y?), I hope folks boycott this money-grubbing nonsense. The entire LOTR trilogy, which I loved, was done in three movies. Actually, I hope I'm wrong and these are amazing cinematic experiences, but I sense an epic quest of bloat ahead. I don't think there is any reason to do just…

He may have meant well, but all he had to offer were cosmetic changes in how an entrenched institution believes all of humanity should talk about an invisble, all-powerful superbeing who lives in the sky (and always needs money). Sure, that sounds sane.

Satirist Mort Sahl is often credited with mocking von Braun with the paraphrase "I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London."

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture had me wondering how they could possibly make Trek so achingly boring.