I wonder if he can be trusted on that.  He'd love to grandstand and sour-grapes them to death from his martyr's cross at this point, even if it meant inventing a capitulation that he high-handedly rejected.  Then again, they'd DEFinitely love to sell fresh Moore shit, so makes sense both ways.

Okay, fair.  The success of quick-drawing 'steal' for inflammatory and comic effect would depend on the tone of his overall comments, which is hard to judge from just the excerpt here.  I didn't listen to the whole thing, which we all should maybe do if we're going to opine up in this piece.

This beef echoes the recent flap over Shepard Fairey's HOPE piece.  For those just tuning in:  Fairey did his thing over a photo of Obama, made an iconic piece, and gave no ups to the photographer (some AP cat, I think).  Then people started riffing on the HOPE iconography and making dough, and Fairey tried to take…

I mean, it's still a dumb offer if you understand the man at all, but it would be a significant wrinkle.

Is that verifiable?  The ownership offer?

I find your stance fascinating, given that your icon is a reappropriated Simpsons-flavoured riff on the other piece of art currently generating the most friction from the same subject.

I think he meant 'steal' in the sense of 'I'm taking this shit of yours out of your house and I'm putting it in mine, where it will serve purposes not necessarily intended when you bought it and put it on your coffee table.'  Which is not only a correct, but is also a striking and funny, deployment of teh Englishes.

I read the comic, and for reasons independent of my enjoyment of the comic, bailed on the show after three episodes.  So I don't know much.

Ready for a fresh angle on just how fucked up a nation Iran is?

I think you might very much enjoy some time with Catholics that bother to dig into their faith.  There's a thick band of contemplative, fairly mystical, but still staunch Catholics that avoid the lazy literalist trap of that heaven-as-reward language and cheerfully admit that trying to describe an afterlife is…

Look, there's no doubt that judging any faith by a broad, shallow canvas of its believers' casual statements on the subject will result in a low opinion of said faith, and of religion in general.

I'm sorry, keptsimple, but you sound like you have no fucking idea what you're talking about regarding Teresa, and no matter how irrelevant a little internet bashing is to the woman, I can't let it slide.  You are either willfully misreading, or else retardedly failing to grasp, her statements on suffering, and you…

I get you're all broken up, hell-bound atheists, but there's nothing appropriate about mourning the dude by losing your sense of humor.  Curlyfries?  Seamus?  I'm looking at you.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but by late 2011, I thought Affleck's recent run of okay-to-great work might've largely abated the Internet hostility he earned for himself in the Bennifer years.

Those guineas down Providence?  They're guineas.  'Mob' needn't mean just them. 

What a breath of fresh air this guy is bringing to the Bat.

'By the way, all authors are in love with the sound of their own voice.'

I confess I saw no reason to read the remaining 4/5ths after getting through that first bit.  Salman Rushdie seems to REALLY like the prose of Salman Rushdie.  I found reading that book to be like watching an Italian nightclub stud putting on his array of perfumes.

The ambitions and techniques of Greek tragedy are…covers for poor writing?  Please, Jesus, let there be more poor writing to cover for in next season's TV.

Lack of ambition is something you lament.  It's not something you weigh against an intact family, an excellent father, an adoring husband and a dependable man and say 'yeah, "til death do us part" really doesn't cover being content with a lower middle-class lifestyle.'  If he didn't have a job I could see your…