Well the ass is an amazing provider of supplemental nutrients. Ya know, for babies. It's the ol' squat n' chew.

Question from a non-astronomer: wouldn't Jupiter only be an effective shield if its orbit closely matched our own? I mean, if it's on the other side of the sun and it soaks up a bunch of asteroids, that doesn't have much to do with our safety. I mean, I guess what I'm trying to ask is, how close to our orbit does…

Occultism flourishes because of capitalism? Maybe people find it easier to open their own palm-reading shops, but more often than not it seems occultism as an interest is a refuge for people who don't have many options in or control over their lives. But of course my generalizing isn't any better then theirs.

This looks awesome! Having said that, I really wish they'd break away from the film. I suppose you can have new Starship Troopers media that ties into the movie but shifts back to the tone of the book, but meh... Meh!

Honestly I can see that as being their concern. If someone was walking around with a camera of any kind affixed to their head, I would instinctively shy away from them. The idea of having digital audio and video recording on your face in anon-intrusive way is great when you think about vacations, family gatherings,…

I went into Prometheus expecting new insight into the Alien franchise in terms of explaining its unofficially unexplored history and putting a new thematic spin on the whole shebang. What I got was a generally confusing mess of plot holes and bad pacing. It looked beautiful, there were a ton of really awesome…

All of the other main male superheros, minus Hawkeye, had love interests in their respective movies. Black Widow already doesn't have one, so what's wrong with giving a new female superhero her own? I don't think it would weaken her as a character in any way. That is, not inherently. Or do you believe that when women…

One of the few that maintains a nice balance between artsy and engaging. At least for me. Mind you that's probably heavily influenced by the fact that I love the video games.

Holy crap, I didn't say anything about punishment. I didn't mean that people should be punished for having sex and accidentally getting pregnant, and I don't think that people are bad or wrong for having as much as sex as they please. I was just thinking out loud about cause and effect and responsibility. Legally and…

God damn that was articulate and thought out, thank you.

My issue with that line of thinking is that it excludes the fact that, usually, pregnancy is the consequence of the choice to have sex. The choice may not be to get pregnant, but pregnancy is a frequent result of the act. Is it okay to ignore the repercussions of our decisions, even though they're considered side…

Ashley isn't a racist, reformed or otherwise. *facepalm*

I wouldn't say Bradbury is a Luddite in that he's against the concept of technology but that he's against what he feels it implies. He's against depersonalizing anything, and making things less "real." I think it's a valid opinion to value the feel of paper in your hands over an e-reader, but I do agree that he's…

I support this fear strictly in theory. We, to my knowledge, haven't seen it actually happen because fortunately most digital distributors are younger, more progressive thinking groups. However, when anything monopolizes anything, it does genuinely endanger the minority in case it disagrees with the majority. I've yet…

I don't understand the conflicted opinions about whether or not it's "okay" to watch Ender's Game in light of Card's policies. Does he take any actions about this? Has he petitioned his governor or congress member to write laws further restricting the freedom of homosexuals? I think it's important to separate an…

I'm going to admit to being jealous of this guy, but I am wary about the ego factor. In one of the interviews, Phoenix apparently stopped chasing after a man screaming at a woman and threatening her with violence in order to grab a photo op with some teenagers. I don't doubt he's doing mostly good, but geeze. I do…

No... I do NOT picture Willis playing Armitage. I think he might pull of a close version of him, but it wouldn't be anything noteworthy. Meh, I just really hope that if they make the movie, it won't absolutely suck. Gibson's stories would be so hard to translate to film.

Hell no. I wish I knew where to find more pictures!

Who's to say that people unaccountably love anything? Is sentiment not a legitimate source of value? If someone experiences a meaningful reaction, or a reaction that is important to them in some way, I don't see how anyone can claim any kind of objective decrying of the art, to claim that it's kitsch.

MacFarlane can't, and I mean he seems to be physically incapable of not doing this, write a story that isn't loaded with masturbatory crap in the worst way possible. Of course an artists personal sensibilities and opinions will seep in to their work, but he takes it to a level of "I'll do whatever the fuck I want"…