Don't forget, that "you can make a character that looks like 'X'" was at the heart of Marvel's lawsuit against Cryptic/NCSoft over the City of Heroes character generator. So, while Jack Thompson sent a legal nastygram, Marvel's lawyers actually went ahead and filed the lawsuit.

My seven-year-old son is reading the Harry Potter books for the first time, they're the first "real" books to grab his attention. We did two chapters of "Azkaban" last night...

From personal experience, worst toy to step on is a die-cast airplane, because that rudder is a small knife just ready to take a divot out of the bottom of your foot. Thanks to an F-16 left parked in the middle of our living room late one night, I ended up weeks later at my first-ever podiatrist getting an abcess…

Also, avoid "reference"-type books. They usually have some generic title like "Airplanes" or "Big Machines" or "Insects" and each page has roughly 5,000 small photos and captions that MUST BE READ about how the tires on an airliner are taller than you are or whatever. Kids quickly realize that even the thinnest of…

Except the actual statistics don't bear out the anecdotes of increasing violence along the border: [www.statesman.com]

Rule 34. If there's isn't porn featuring this car, there soon will be.

If you poll experienced battery people on which EDV battery pack has the most fundamental design flaws, I expect that the Tesla Roadster's would win in a walk. (I'm not an expert, but have had to spend time around them for work.) The way one 20-year veteran of the battery industry described the Roadster's pack to me…

Early Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, White Stripes, Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, REM, Smiths, etc. were all gateway bands to "real music" appreciation for my son. Never did any kid's music, he's never felt the lack.

"Man, I haven't gotten pulled over in six months. I bet those evangelists have SCMODS."

The only thing they did post-9/11 that actually improved aviation security was that they locked down the cockpit so that planes can no longer be taken over and used as weapons. Everything else is security theater, since committed terrorists could cause more casualties in unsecure public spaces (malls, sporting events,…

Of course, one Hawkeye costs more than all those cars put together.

No, it lives at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The story of how they decided it's the actual bus is relatively interesting: [www.hfmgv.org]

Meanwhile, the Detroit Lions set an NFL record with their fourth come-from-behind win of 13 points or more this season. Matt Stafford clearly needs to pray more if he wants media coverage.

As a long-time FPS gamer as well as a Red Cross volunteer in the US, I don't see the issue here.

Since the Old Testament. Deuteronomy 20:19-20:

"Even if you're giving minimal effort there is no way you can fail." — Ohio State football compliance department motto, 2010

F1 is the soccer of motorsports in America. We prefer our own homebrewed options that aren't run by mysterious and unaccountable Europeans (Ecclestone is Sepp Blatter with strange hair), so please stop sending Michael Schumacher and/or David Beckham over here with instructions to conquer us.

The Board of Directors of nonprofit organizations are the people in charge, even if the real work gets done by the executive team, staff and volunteers.

The batteries, being batteries, will create their own sparks. It's not a chemical reaction that's involved in a Li-ion fire.

Yes, Li-ion batteries can be a fire hazard in some circumstances, and could create a safety hazard in a crash for passengers and emergency responders. You know what else does that? Gas tanks.