There's something to this. Superhero movies really entered a new phase with the 2002 Spider-Man movie. What was new was sophisticated CGI that allowed characters to move on screen in ways that looked believable, but without the constraints of keeping an actor or stunt double safe. It mixed the advantages of…

It's not like they haven't returned to that again and again in the comics. It's the prime motivating force behind Batman: why he exists in the first place, why he keeps doggedly pursuing his crime-fighting, and why he's so grim and gritty. Besides, not everyone who goes to comic-book movies is a comic reader, and…

Or Hairspray or The Producers, which started as movies, were adapted into stage musicals, which were then adapted back to the screen?

Well, you did say that it was a gray area, and the nonprofit world exists in a weird space between the public and private sectors. So "gray area" is a fair description of just about any nonprofit work.

Right. Hence my phrase: "either she or some others who cared a lot about such things."

"his salary was almost certainly paid with grant money (that probably
came from a variety of sources, but such sources probably included city,
state, and federal governments)"

I never stop chuckling at the pettiness and vanity of that title. It was only added to Victoria's royal title when one of her daughters was going to marry the Emperor or heir-apparent of someplace (Germany, I think, or maybe Austria or Russia), and either she or some others who cared a lot about such things thought…

Well, I guess if I weren't "really a 'professor,'" then I wouldn't show up at meetings where only professors were expected to attend.

Some nonprofit organization. Not a government.

Not to mention the easily-ridiculed-for-some-reason community organizer job. I mean, it's not exactly hedge-fund managing, but it was certainly not in the public sector.

That's why they wrote 'em in disappearing ink!

"Libraries are not free: your taxes and mine* pay for them, and when did you vote to spend your tax dollars and mine* on a bunch of books that no one checks out, and which are full of liberal garbage anyway?" — Your Local Teabagger

Defending the concept of hereditary nobility and monarchy, too. Eh, it often happens in the northeastern Atlantic as July 4 approaches.

I see the appeal, if you like police procedurals. This could be one of those, but with a rogues gallery that's a bit more colorful — and foreshadowing of what will come when Batman is on the scene — than the rapist/molester/killer of the week on SUV. It can be lurid and grim, but with a bit of comic-book overlay to…

That is just terrible.

All the more reason, with the Fourth of July approaching, that I should be glad I'm not British!

I'm more than a little confused. The description of what the fuck this is going to be is completely incomprehensible. Going for a joke is fine, even a complicated one. But sometimes it obscures the information you're trying to convey, and in such a case, the joke should probably yield to a straightforward…

As with all fast food or all greasy food, if you have a tolerance for it, it doesn't affect you so badly. But to build up that tolerance, you have to eat it regularly. I've been trying to eat more healthfully in recent years, so building up a Taco Bell tolerance would run directly counter to that. When you're…

The World Cup is an exciting sporting event. Even someone as apathetic about (even slightly hostile toward) soccer as I am can get excited when you (1) only do it every four years, (2) introduce national teams, so it's easy to pick a rooting interest, and (3) the team uniforms actually have something to do with the…

Run for your lives!