You are right of course. It's not anyone's responsibility to teach others to be better allies. I continue to believe though that if someone is well-intentioned and trying to be a supportive ally it may be better to give them a helpful shove in the right direction than a scathing reprimand. Obviously its not for me (or…

When it came out the Racialicious post rubbed me the wrong way for several reasons.

I saw the revamped version when I was in NYC this spring (my dad wanted to see it, and my top two choices (Once and Book of Mormon) had no reasonably priced seats available). It was honestly pretty entertaining. As you said, the stunt work is fantastic, and there are some very well-done things with the staging like…

Yep, I was just waiting for the whole "In a world where..." thing to happen.

To be fair, any problems I had with Divergent were more related to world-building than they were to writing style. While the goofy "living by one virtue" thing is hard to follow through on, the plotting, pacing, and characterization were all quite solid. I will recommend it to anyone interested in that genre.

My take on this is you splurge when at least three of the following conditions are met:

Indeed, he's one of those guys who sees and times the ball so well. In BP, if you have the strength of a major league athlete, timing and bat speed is more than enough to hit a ton out. In a game situation, with pitchers mixing up their stuff and trying to locate around the power zone, it's not at all the same thing,…

I think there's an important distinction between saying that someone who is a doctor has the right to fat shame (which is obviously not true as doctors, like all of, us are susceptible both to bias and to simply being assholes) and saying that medical professionals who are involved in research or clinical treatment of…

Wait, was there a moral? The movie was absolutely edge of the seat dramatic, and the big reveal is a shock to the audience, but I'm not sure there's a real moral is aside from "child molestation is bad" (well duh) or "some things are ethically complex" (again, obviously).

A guy I work with has a degree in meteorology, but is always careful not to use "meteorologist" as his official title, as that legally requires a certain certification that can only (or mostly? I'm just going off what he told me) be obtained by working for Environment Canada, so while he is a meteorologist by…

Just War is something that has long been associated with Catholic theology, specifically Thomas Aquinas (although I seem to recall that it has its roots in Roman philosophy), but I do not believe it is actually a doctrine of the church. I think it has been referred to by catholic ministers in various countries…

I can't attest to his teenage years...

Actually, what really got me was the ending of Toy Story 3, this scene:

You can debate methods all you like, but Israel is well within its right under maritime law to enforce a blockade of a port.

That was my first thought as well, although my point of reference was not corporations but sports team. The Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup, but Manchester United wins the Premiership (although in past tense you would use "won" for both, so please forgive my use of present tense for illustrative purposes).

Well, to be fair, in a business sense it is. Warner Bros is looking at the money that ABC is making on Once Upon a Time and wants its version of that. The problem is that the first arc of Fables {SPOILERS} introduces most of its core characters by focussing on the apparent murder of Rose Red and Bigby and Snow's…

Superman, yes you have a bit of a point. Bruce Wayne however has never been a character that works well "full of joy". In pretty much every incarnation he's all about the brooding seriousness and the paramount importance of his crusade for justice/vengeance (depending on the writer).

...joins Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Fry as the third non-royal to appear on British currency. She's replacing Charles Darwin...

Wait, does that actually work? If so I'm going to buy a pack today, I got eaten alive at my softball game Monday night.

Superhero football happened in Avengers Academy, and yes, Hawkeye used arrows to take out every member of the other team: