I also liked that the didn't sugar coat the scientific theory behind it.  There was a guy named Von Neumann, and that was a real theory of his.

Actually, thinking of Troy and Abed talking about Puny Man-Animals pleases me immensely.  So let it be written, so let it be done.

Its weird, I hate this sort of crap when Jackass did it.  But with the Community cast, I like it.  I wonder if it would work with other stuff….. would Battlefield Earth would be entertaining with Jeff Winger as the main character and Troy and Abed as the Psychlos?

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Yes, that was indeed the same documentary, though I thought that those tents were paid for by the rich people themselves, like renting a hotel room, not as some sort of gift by the Saudi's to rich countries.

National Geographic: Inside Mecca is available on Netflix and follows a variety of non-Arab Muslims on their Hajj, and each one was stopped by other pilgrims that questioned them to make sure they were Muslims. I suspect there is a lot more that goes on before Saudi Arabia would even give you a visa into the country.

I really doubt that it will Passion of the Christ, unless the LDS church starts getting people to go in droves, and really, there aren't that many of them.  Card has been pissing off his fans for years with his shitty hateful politics, and his shitty, hack sequels.

I'm much angrier with Jim Carrey for his whole anti-vaccination campaign than anything he could write on Twitter.  Though I think since he divorced McCarthy, he's largely stopped?

Chick-Fil-A lost me back in college when I wanted a sandwhich on Sunday and all I got was a fucking passive aggressive sign about how we shouldn't work on God's day.  And passed out free food for the Campus Crusade For Christ, the most obnoxious of all the campus organizations. 

Yeah, being team captain in this show is a poisoned chalice.  They give you a lot of responsibility you're not ready for and then shit all over you when your team does poorly, if they don't just completely fuck you like they did with Bri.

I'm not sure, because of the way the scene was edited, but I think Luca was also the only person actually clapping enthusiastically for Krissi's victory too.

I feel like I should throw a giant pizza on my roof out of respect.

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The Hyperion Cantos, as an animated show.  None of this saving money for a few big SFX episodes at the end.  Space opera animation done right all the way.

There is a certain symmetry to Humans taking one of the Mimbari's greatest leaders, and then in turn giving back to the Mimbari their singular greatest leader.

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Good, that's pretty much what I thought too.  Perhaps they caught people that were somewhat related to Sinclair (we're all each other's 50th cousins) and the thing chimed in too. 

In the Beginning is just awesome.  I don't think I really *got* how serious the Earth-Mimbari war was until I saw it. 

Go for it… I'm confronted mostly with my inability to remember it very well.

One of the things I was curious about was whether the whole halting of the Earth-Mimbari war was something of a fluke.  If they hadn't caught Sinclair/Valen, would they have had the information to stop things?  Was the Mimbari soul transfer thingy really happening (I feel like they were supposed to have tested other…

Or in the case of Christine from last year, they edit out all her frequent cursing to make her seem more saintly. 

In Australia, at least, they donate all the excess food to Food Banks, and I'd assume something similar would happen in the US.  Those 90 wasted eggs probably helped feed hundreds of people.