I've found a great way to deal with controversies like this.  I realize that awards shows are all bullshit and I don't care about any of that crap.  "Toy Story 3" was a great movie.  "The King's Speech" was a very good movie.  Which one won the Oscar doesn't matter even a little bit. (Haven't seen "Social Network" so…

I'm pretty sure the 3/4 figure is stated as an actual fact in the movie (I only saw it once and that's been awhile ago now) but the movie isn't terribly brutal.  i was going in with the expectation of a story about the end of the world and its not anywhere near that—you see the edges start to fray and you can…

I agree the Pats defense is shit, but the Packer's D isn't that much better.  This could be very interesting.  Could this be the first Super Bowl in history that has a team scoring in the triple digits?

The general election campaign is going to be agony.  My only reaction to  Willard and Barry is to want to punch their smarmy faces.  I mourn Herman Cain—that would have been hysterical!

I think the depiction of the effects on society of a pandemic like this are probably pretty accurate.  i just don't think the behavior of the scientists in the movie are all that accurate.

Well, here goes.  I'm going to flip the switch!

Someone can be a good actor and still be an intolerable person.

Don't know how realistic it actually is.   3/4 of the population is naturally immune to the disease.  The scientist who "proves" the vaccine works does it by injecting herself and then exposing her self to an infected person.  "I'm not sure I agree  100% with your police work there, Lou."

Yes, Mr. Sherman.  Everything stinks.

I had no idea this thread existed—bless you dolphin.  Without you I would not now have the phrase "You might have been born out of the wrong hole."  My life has been permanently enriched!

My father is a sap for the heart warming happy ending movies (and will rarely watch anything that  doesn't end that way.)  I told him for years he should see this movie—it was made for him.  He decides one Christmas to finally sit down and watch it.  At just the moment that George decides to throw himself from the…

How much are we really going to be disturbed by China's behavior?  Obama has just announced he won't veto a bill giving the military the power to detain American citizens arrested on American soil indefinitely without trial.  Is the government of the United States appalled by China's behavior or inspired by it?

And didn't he command that all his followers belongings be pooled together and shared out equally?  SOCIALIZMS!!!!11!!!

And that's why the Bible (at least the King James version) should be taught in schools—it's impossible to truly understand the last 400 years of English language literature without it.

It would be nice to live with a comforting lie, but it is still a lie and I can't do it.

Don't forget the desire to use other people's fear to control them.

It will never happen so you don't have to worry about it.  It would be funny to watch him campaign though.  I miss Cain—a race between him and Obama would be epic laughs.

Obama ordered the execution of an American citizen without trial or presentation of evidence, because it would be far too dangerous to the little people like you and me for his administration to make a case.  How much more authoritarian do you want him to be?

Agree completely on the quality of these two shows—my favorites on TV.  They do both create vivid and engrossing worlds with vivid characters.  I don't think I'd actually want to visit those worlds though.  Poverty blighted Kentucky country doesn't seem particularly inviting and as much fun as it would be to be part…

I used to feel that way about getting those little red indicators but as time went on the effect became weaker and weaker.  To counteract that, I had to create an excel spreadsheet that keeps track of all my comments and the number of "Likes" they get.  Only when I can add another to that number do I get a little…