I think it would have worked really well if they'd gone and updated the pyscho-fundie stuff, which has changed a bit since the 70s. The Quiverfull movement, the Westboro Baptist Church people, or even the Fundamentalist LDS are pretty scary just on their own.

Basically, what the Matrix was, that the real world was the apocalyptic machine world. I still liked the Matrix, but it would have been neat to see it cold.

As a term? I recall hearing it a lot in reference to Buffy from my friends who had a bit of an obsession about it.

I was thinking of the time he said that the government shouldn't criminalize marijuana, but its good that he said your thing too.

Amen.

Curious fact, Pat Robertson is not a Young Earth Creationist. One of the two times I've agreed with something he said was when he told people to give up creationism, because religion cannot beat dinosaurs.

I confess that I am interested in seeing the camera following Noah from behind as he walks through his Ark even more now that there are going to be unicorns and six armed monster men.

You'd think fixing soccer would be pretty easy.  No heading the ball.  A certain amount of sports injury is just going to happen though.  My niece got a concussion during a swim practice, when she hit the jaw of another swimmer, for instance.

The unfortunate thing about Charisma is that, in general, a character's charisma within the party and the larger game world is more closely tied to the *players* charisma.  I remember running a game with two PCs, one of whom was beautiful and played by an asshole, and the other that had a Charisma of 2, and yet was…

The D&D nerd that I am, I would really want to see her power tested…. does she kill anyone nearby when she has sex, or is it specifically to someone pleasuring her, or must it involve penetration?  I hope that in future, The Supreme buys her a whole mess of male and female prostitutes to really map out the limits of…

Perhaps he'll make a new version of Scarface where the guns are replaced with radios.

A fight for supremacy ending in someone violently stripped and exiled seems like a great episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians: I AM EMPEROR.

Have you read much Dawkins?  Have you heard him speak?  He's has got some serious problems with saying stupid shit on twitter, and he's got some fundamental problems with feminist, but 'Dawkins is an Asshole' is as much a reputation thing as anything.  When I saw him speak at Duke, he was generally pretty friendly…

Oh yeah, I understand that quite well.  I live in North Carolina and all.  But there is a big difference between a normal person and an internationally recognized science popularizer.  I mean its his choice and all, its just that if he wants to be the next Carl Sagan, he shouldn't spend his time chiding other atheists.

It just seems like he was given the mantle of Carl Sagan, and I'm not sure if he has really earned it, beyond just throwing out some nice videos on youtube.

The My Name is Earl Season 3 gambit, if you will.  I think it would work much better for Deathrow Dexter.

I still long for Dexter to have gone to jail and spent some time casually eliminating people there.  They could even change the opening credits to have him doing his morning jail routine.

Oh yeah, you poor, poor historians.
300 must have given you all aneurisms. 

He is always riding Dawkins for being too mean too, and for mixing atheism with science.  Tyson also does my own pet peeve, namely being an atheist in everything but name, but refusing to call himself an atheist because he doesn't want that 'label' to cause him trouble.  As if the people for whom that matters would…

I wonder if it would have been China doing it, if it weren't for the fact that their film market is very picky about anti-China stuff.