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Yeah I just looked them up on Wikipedia and it says their "country of origin" is Cheeseheadville Wisconsin or whatever, so that's what I went with.

"Pressed Meat and Meat Byproduct Log Folder" doesn't quite trip off the tongue in the way I had imagined when I first invented email.

This is going to sound like a joke answer, but it's not- the reason is millennials.

It's a lightly-flavored carbonated water. It's made in Wisconsin, so I can see how it would be exotic to a backwards European like yourself.

My wife gets LaCroix a lot and it's pretty tasty. I like how it's not too sweet, but I don't like that it has the name of a New Orleans vampire prince.

"Balance of Terror" is an amazing episode, and the one of the only Trek episodes where I've really felt the tension of space combat. It's the perfect distillation of the "starships-as-submarines" concept.

"The Most Toys" is a great episode that I always somehow forget about, even though it's a fantastic Data showcase and has Saul Rubinek doing a really terrific guest villain.

There's an Adventure Time episode that has basically the exact same concept, where Finn lives a whole life with a wife and kids in another dimension before returning home to find no time has passed. Jonathan Frakes even voiced the grown-up version of Finn.

You seen Milo lately? It ain't workin'.

I mean, in some sense, when we read about Superman, we're doing the same thing as when people told stories about Hercules or Jason and the Argonauts. Those characters didn't face "normal" threats that you or I might- they exist on a higher plane and, yes, there is a certain amount of affect present in that story by

I don't really buy the premise that "all it takes is one guy" to get Batman, because from a metatextual perspective, it's just not true. Nobody's going to write an issue of Detective Comics where some mugger shoots Bruce Wayne in the head any more than they'd ever make a Die Hard movie where John McClane dies in the

Oh he definitely killed that guy, but the news is talking like he just slaughtered everyone there.

I also watched it last weekend and one thing that drove me friggin' nuts was how everyone thought Superman killed a bunch of guys in Egypt or wherever he rescued Lois from. Except the thing is, Luthor's goons shot all those people, so does everyone just think that Superman, like, has a gun? Despite that never having

I even think it's valuable to Superman's character that he's as powerful as he is. It reinforces the idea of his incorruptibility and goodness. He disproves the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely. I think that's an admirable ambition, to present a character who speaks to our better natures and gives us an

I also don't really subscribe to the idea that Superman is so physically powerful that any fight with him is automatically boring. He's certainly extremely powerful, but there's a ton of DC characters on or above his level who don't get the charge of "boring" leveled at them.

But of course Good Superman can be beaten- it's happened many times. The stakes don't always have to be life-and-death, either. You can have moral stakes, or emotional stakes that are just as powerful, and which Superman can't leverage his superpowers to overcome.

Like that old SNL skit where Garth Brooks tried to sell his soul to Satan in exchange for a hit song, only to find out that Satan really blows at songwriting.

Well, John Logan did also write Star Trek: Nemesis, so the case is stronger than this article would have you believe.

It's just the script for Apocalypse Now except every instance of the word "boat" has been crossed out and replaced with "plane".

And Anthony Edwards reprising his tragic senseless death!