Apparently the Sun is MUCH closer and smaller. Arguing with FES people can be a fun challenge to yourself to think critically about what is being assumed in an argument but they are not being sincere.

I hope nobody emulates that movie. Terrifying.

I, Claudius really benefitted from it. An Italian accent would have been way different.

So much of this is simply conjecture. Could you provide any reliable source?

That's what I find so flummoxing. I try not to think of myself as exceptional as I believe that is dangerous, but in provincial and federal elections I vote for the party that I think will benefit disenfranchised groups and the world. I assume lots of others do too. As a white middle class straight male I basically…

I hear you. Sometimes I have to stop and think, 'Why do I care who's on their Supreme Court?'

America needs healthcare…
Obamacare…
America needs healthcare…
Obamacare…

You have to have a Republican president and you are going to enter into the Middle East. Why not McCain?

You want to know my alternative history? No? Too bad.

For all we know they had only been talking about kids for a few minutes. I'm the Mickey with a group of friends like that and I'm able to sit there quietly and listen sometimes. There are even moments where I can chime in about kids and marriage.

It's not that these two don't deserve love or that having a 'personality defect' disqualifies you from trying to find happiness with another. They are lonely and want to be with each other not because they actually care for and like the other but because they think that themselves and the other can't do better.…

As a Canadian, I started rooting several months ago for China to become less shitty so they can take over global leadership.

So what you're saying is…he's too old for this shit?

I watched about 20 of the Bond movies out of order over the course of a couple weeks several years ago and other than certain exceptions (such as the Craig ones since I watched those in theatre) I have no idea what name goes with what movie. So many are generic action titles.

Skyfall, aside from the absurd plot, is great.

Nephew's can handle stuff. I took my 9 year old nephew to John Wick 2 and it's his favourite movie now. Pretty sure I just created an action movie fanatic.

Perhaps it was always intended. In the first film, there's a scene in Murtaugh's house where you see a sign on the fridge that says 'End Apartheid.'

Yes! I'm pumped for Cat's Cradle too. If anyone can do Vonnegut, it's Hawley.

I didn't even know Birbiglia had a new one! Him and Schlesinger are my favourites.

I just looked up this story and I wrote it in 2005. I have no proof though…put it up on a DragonBall Z post-to-play RPG site (I know…) that is defunct.