I'm with you. I checked out of Superman Returns as soon as Luthor and his lackeys abandoned the two little dogs in the mansion near the beginning, and I actively hated the movie after they made a joke out of one of them eating the other one later on. (Note: Superman Returns still would have been lousy without those…

If nothing else, Little Jimmy Bond had far and away the greatest Evil Plan of any Bond villain ever. Using biological warfare to make all the women in the world beautiful and kill every man taller than yourself? Genius.

The absurdly stirring music is so inappropriate that I have to believe it was used as a joke. Please, please, let it have been a joke…

I didn't say anything like that, but I think it's pretty funny that you're trying to turn it into some kind of rallying cry.

That's the greatest bumper sticker ever.

But after that, Snoopy dictates a snippy letter demanding all of his stuff back, and everyone leaves in disgust, and that's the thing that sticks in my mind about the ending.

Dude, I said I was curious to see what would happen. That's, like, the exact opposite of assuming.

Lamentably so, all the more so because he was spot-on in everything he said.

Amazing! And it's really refreshing to read one of these and not have them being polite and prudent about the bad movies/shows they've done. I guess when you're 101, you don't have much to worry about.

I'm sure there's a lot of that going on publicly, but when they get in the voting booth and it's just them and their god, do they still feel that need?

This is why I pray that, if the Dems keep the White House, there's a role somewhere for Lawrence Lessig (or someone who's got the same perspective) in the new administration. Otherwise, I think we are most definitely boned sooner or later.

Overall, and especially regarding foreign policy, I look at it like this: 95% of Obama's policies are just a continuation of W's policies. 95% of W's policies were Clinton's policies. 95% of Clinton's policies were Reagan/Bush 1's policies. And whoever gets elected in 2016 will continue 95% of what Obama's doing…

This is what I'm thinking too… in recent history, the GOP always closes in around the most electable (ie most mainstream and least interesting) person in the field. Dole, W, McCain, Romney… Jeb! fits perfectly in that set in ways that none of the other candidates do.

True enough… not to take anything away from the incredible skill set, education, and knowledge that a good neurosurgeon needs, but it's not a job that requires brilliance, imagination, or an innovative mindset either. It really does boil down to being able to follow every detail of an extremely difficult instruction…

For strictly scientific reasons, I hope Carson gets the nomination. I have to admit I'm dying to know how much of the GOP base would really vote for a black man, even when he's saying exactly what they want to hear.

I dig the William Boroughs stylings of your post.

Come on, you've only been reading recycled Peanuts strips for 15 years. And considering the money that Peanuts continues to generate, there was no chance that it was going to disappear from the papers. The only real alternative would have been for Schulz to pass the strip on to someone else a la Family Circus, BC,…

I still can't watch Snoopy Come Home without a lot of mental preparation. When I was a kid, I found it too sad and upsetting. As an adult, I just find it unremittingly mean-spirited; I understand the Snoopy vs Lucy boxing match, but Snoopy's confrontation with Linus and his treatment of Charlie Brown are just plain…

Hell yeah! Woodstock rules, although I hope his friends (Olivier, Conrad, Harriet, etc) finally get some screen time in the new movie.

Some of it, surely. I love prog for the way it pushed popular music's boundaries, made it cool to actually know how to play your instrument, and demonstrated that you could be literate and thoughtful and still rock. And I hate prog for its pomposity, its self-seriousness, and its frequent emphasis on virtuosity and…