Oh, yeah. Except that when I turned in my Al Capone homework to Geraldo Rivera, he opened it up and there was nothing there. I still got a good rating, though.

*Obligatory "they were working the kinks in" joke*

It's a good read, particularly if you're interested in a mix of science fiction and insights on the Cultural Revolution. I'm quite curious what the Chinese government's official take on the book is.

Years ago I was watching a late night show where Ice Cube was promoting the 2nd xXx movie, and when asked about taking over for Vin Diesel, he confidently tossed off "yeah, there is a new xXx every movie" . . . and then awkwardly realized what that indicated for his future with the franchise.

And here I am reading Pride and Prejudice like a chump!

- George attempts to impress a girl by joining the protesters, but accidentally ends up with a group of counter-protesters who are supporting the Sheriff's Department
- After being mistaken for a Native American, Kramer is selected to represent them in discussions with the police
- Elaine urgently needs to find a…

I'm just making this up on the fly, but submit that in addition to being events where success or failure primarily depends on physical prowess (which may or may not be true of a game), sports cannot be played in your parlor. You have to go outside or to a special indoor venue. Whether or not you can get away with…

Garth Brooks.

And if not, there's no reason why she couldn't still become one.

The example of boxing is a great one, and helps demonstrate why the distinction is useful. Boxing should be objectively scorable, but in practice has some subjectivity, which is how you get split decisions. (Also, there is a ton of crooked scoring in boxing that is specifically enabled by that subjectivity.)

Proposition: synchronized swimming (and any other sport that has judges rather than a referee or umpire) should not be considered a sport. Instead, it's "competitive athletic art," because success or failure hangs on aesthetic concerns rather than empirical achievement.

Oh no! Somehow script pages from Wild Wild West got mixed in! We . . . well, I guess we just go with it.

The irony is that given freedom to elect who we choose, we seem to be gravitating towards monarchal-style dynastys anyway.

Even though I disagree with his musical taste, I find the mental image of him listening to a Roots CD in his car, scrunching his face in revulsion and throwing the CD out the window to be pretty old-man hilarious.

As Kelsey Grammer goes, so go I.

Are you kidding? Candy corn is great, as long as it's not stale. Throw in some of the pumpkin-shaped candy corn for variety and we're really in business.

Plus, kids don't suffer genre fatigue in the same way that adults do, which really helps give the comic book franchises a sort of generational renewal capacity.

Not sure if it's actually a theological tenet (as opposed to a cultural one), but it's frowned upon for Hindu widows in India to remarry, I think.

Myers' story wouldn't be nearly as interesting if he were truly a no-talent hack. But the reality is that there was a time period when everything he touched turned to gold, and a lot of that success had to do with his personal creative input. Austin Powers wasn't a big phenomenon because the studio pumped it up—it…

She kind of blew it with Unbroken, too, despite having Grade-A true story material to work with.