Your critique reminds me a bit of myself in that I used to wonder about how the old X-Men (back in the 80s) integrated — or didn't as the case may be — Kitty Pryde's and Magneto's Jewishness.

Oh god Wagner. He still is up there with the best in terms of career saves — 5th place (422).

That family had some characters, for sure. Gennaro (the grandson) as far as I knew turned out fine. It's amazing what kids that age (myself included) will ignore and just see as "normal." Like the fortress-like fence around their residence. Hey, for us it was just cool that we had a corner to smoke weed in where…

Sean O'Neal, you were ok until the usage of "wicked" a the end of the sentence. Wicked is a synonym for "very" and an adjective always follows. :-)

Yes but the temptation! :-)

Well, you won't have to hear it again at a baseball game for a while now that Mariano Rivera retired. So there's that.

It's weird that Civ is about 20 years old now. I remember playing the first version — I never did get any of the others — and I really, really enjoyed it to the point where even several years later I was still kicking it around on my machine, until it just wouldn't work anymore. (I guess that was 1997-98 when I got a…

Apropos of the discussion of adaptations:

There's the little matter of making a living, you know. I write for a living. I would love to sell a book to Tor and get a zillion dollar movie deal. Why? Because much as I feel that I should write what I think and and feel and what moves me creatively, I gotta pay the rent. I never begrudge anyone for "selling out"…

There's a book called Pete Seeger: In his own words. But honestly, go through his Wiki and you'll see refs there. My own father and mother, and grandparents, actually interacted with him occasionally as aprt of activist work; my grandfather was organizing for the Spanish Republicans at the time. Look up The United…

I think the thing that you and a lot of other folks stumble over is something @avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus just brought up: just because you cat minorities or women doesn't mean you deal with the issues in a real way. After all, even Birth of a Nation had a black actor or two. And terribly racist…

And he publicly, explicitly, repudiated the CPSU. And no, he wasn't an apologist by any stretch even then.

The problem is libertarians haven't been at the forefront of some of those.

I teach a Martial Arts class. And I think there's a point to be made that no, you aren't going to do what they do in the Matrix or in the typical kung-fu movie. I emphasize that a lot.

See, this is (see my other post) why I don't get the spoilers concept. The Crying Game is 20 freaking years old.

That too. First, few if any minority characters exist, and second — well, you get lines that describe nonwhites in terms that are positively cringe-worthy now.

"And then they have the characters in their underwear rubbing gel on each other in a decontam room."

I'm sure people have said similar things already, but to me, if you can have something "spoiled" by knowing the ending, yo must be unfamiliar with reading. Or watching any film, ever.

You know, I'd love to know if anyone — maybe @avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus has covered it — also thinks that there's a peculiarly adolescent quality to the way Trek (and some other genre shows) handle sex/ gender. Trek seems to be the worst offender in this regard sometimes, tho. Dr. Who can end up…

THIS. ^^^^