"Simmons sure wasn’t mincing words about her assessment on Mace’s physical. You’ll never be Captain America, ouch."
It was a great line for its bluntness but was also clever given that in the comics, Jeffrey Mace was Captain America for a while.

This is my argument for restricting immigration in a nutshell.

I noticed too. And I notice it all the time on television when they do shots of someone holding a note or something that the actual actor clearly couldn't be bothered to do. They did this all the time on The Good Wife and it drove me bonkers. Whoever played the part of Juliana Margulies's hands was horribly miscast.

Yeah, and it was absolutely terrible.

Sez the guy who cares about nothing except a crop of watermelons.

It is less amusing in real life. I know this because one of my friends always refers to her husband by his first and last name and I want it to stop.

I am willing to accept that the editors of the New Jerusalem Bible understand Hebrew at least as well as you do.

Actually, I don't have to do anything.

Lighten up, Francis.
I know the difference between a snarky Internet comment and reality. Yeeesh.

Right after it says that bats are birds and that some fowl have four legs.

I can't answer your specific question but given that religious beliefs are just "weird things someone made up in their head" I'm not sure such a distinction is cost effective.

Very tangential tale:
Since you mentioned grasshoppers, I am reminded of the best discussion I ever had with a Biblical literalist (on, of all places, an online Atari 2600 forum.) They challenged me to name a single example of the The Bible being factually wrong. I decided I'd be better off with something innocuous…

The lengths that some Orthodox Jews will go to circumvent their own rules never ceases to amaze me. (See also: eruv strings.)

There is. It's called "paying a rabbi to bless the strawberries as kosher."

Heh. My grandfather took me to see Airplane! in the theater when I was 8. He was not amused by those boobs, let me tell you, and he let the ticket lady and later my parents know about it!

I think you might be confusing a scripted framework with a framework later imposed during editing. From what I've read, literally everything that came out of Bill Murray's mouth was ad-libbed — which means surely there is a lot more of it that got left on the cutting room floor — and everything I've ever heard about…

Also worth noting that Casablanca was hardly some kind of meticulously crafted filmcraft. It started filming before it even had a finished script! It was pure studio assembly-line product; it was as much luck as anything else that everything came together into a whole much greater than the sum of its cobbled together…

I also don't see anything wrong with there being different kinds of movies. Not every movie has any pretension to being a reflection of reality, nor need they. Pointing out that the characters in Doctor Strange don't act like real people, for example, isn't a very illuminating observation about why it is or it isn't a…

I was scrolling through a movie site recently looking for something to watch and came across Spectre and thought, "Oh yeah, I never did watch that. I guess I should give it a chance." For some reason I went to the IMBD page first to look something up (I honestly don't remember what) and noticed that I had given it a…

Not that I'd ever suggest that cheapo packets that take water are in any way superior to your preferred versions of hot chocolate but you must surely realize that there's still milk in there, it's just powdered.