Lots of great debate in the comments section here about what the best scenes are in Winter Soldier. But I’d like to take this opportunity to add that this movie had hands down the best trailer of any Marvel movie.

Hey that’s fair, it’s not even my favorite pizza from there - I mostly thought of it because I was thinking about political events nearby at the Hamburg Inn (I’m still kicking myself that I wrote Hamburg Grill earlier, ugh). But I really did like their house special pizza.

I miss Iowa. I grew up there, lived in Nebraska during high school and undergrad, then back to Iowa for grad school. Now I’ve been working for seven years in New England and I still feel like a Midwesterner far from home.

Yeah, the rather willful obtuseness about Trump’s meaning when he said, “I didn’t get a thank you” is aggravating. Sure, he has nobody to blame but himself for his completely lack of coherency, but it’s not hard to figure out that he was talking about his critics rather than John McCain’s ghost.

If it happened on one of the coasts it would be on the front page for a week. People would be wringing their hands and saying “When is the government going to help us?”. Nebraskans just get up and say “We got this”, help their neighbors out and go on with life.

I’m not a proper old, I find sidecuts weirdly endearing!

Possibly. But the narration that Xander supplies throughout the issue seems to say that he’s more feeling lonely and isolated.

I completely understand your skepticism! And while I don’t think that bullying is anywhere close to going away, it’s something that my undergraduate students regularly say was a much more anonymous thing when they were in high school. They’ve told me that being seen as a bully (physical or emotional) means you’re…

That’s actually the first time Willow’s done anything remotely aggressive so far. As for the Hot Topic look, though... yeah, that’s definitely fair. Though her girlfriend makes her look downright tame in comparison:

I can definitely understand your feelings about those three characters in particular. I’ve been warming up to these reinterpretations, though. I particularly appreciate that they ditched Cordelia’s mean girl act this time around - this version actually feels like a much better fit for how the original Cordie ended up…

Very glad to see this get some attention! I stumbled across this completely by accident and was surprised that I hadn’t heard anything about it before.

You’re being deliberately obtuse. Wahhabism is a repulsive ideology that deserves to be treated as such, and the willingness of Americans to look the other way when supporting it to serve our purposes (whether it be Republican or Democrat supporting the Saudis or the Taliban) is a massive stain that we are still…

The day some asshole comes into a Western church and guns down 50 Christians simply for being Christians, you can damn well bet I’ll be denouncing them just as hard. And anybody who refuses to do so will be no political ally of mine. It’s really not that hard of a stance to take.

Exactly. Though the added irony is that the Obama administration stepped up border security and deportations in a huge way compared to Bush, but none of it was ever enough for US nativists. Everybody who actually understands the logistics of the border knows that “the Wall” would do little to stop actual illegal…

Seeing Picard’s name next to Birds of Prey immediately made me think, “Wait, what if one of the Trek spinoffs is about a post-TNG era elite Klingon strike force??”

Gee, you hurt my feelings. If you like to watch stupid shit, go ahead. Doesn’t bother me at all.

Well, he had a comic at IDW until just a couple of months ago. Then, um, Unicron ate his homeworld.

To be fair, Worf was “Worf effected” every other episode. Picard probably felt Worf deserved one straight victory over a baddie.

Fair, though I probably should have been more clear that I wasn’t using that as an example of breaking the Prime Directive, but as an example of major rule breaking in general not bringing significant consequences. What Worf did was lawful under Klingon law, sure, but he clearly understood that it was not what his…

Yeah, completely agree, and I say this as somebody who otherwise very much likes the show in general and this episode in particular. The spinning briefing is when it finally pushed me over the edge, it was extremely distracting.