Skyfall is great, so is In Her Majesty's Secret Service, From Russia With Love.

What about Past Tense on Star Trek Deep Space Nine?

I'm really loving the 5th ed. focus on things that aren't numerical bonuses.

Hmmm. Oh yes, movie sword fighting versus real sword fighting. Anyone who say "oh, this would be a cool move" gets a lecture from me on how that movie stuff is fine for film because it looks interesting, but it usually ends with me demonstrating some technique that is quick and hard to follow. Then I prattle on about…

It's pronounced GIF not Jiff because its a graphic not a jraphic. I don't care what the creator says, he's not an English major.

I think part of it is the lack of a safety net: we don't know how much money we'll need, we don't know what will happen to us if we don't have enough, and there doesn't seem to be an obvious Plan B. Also, and I don't know why this would be specific to people in the U.S., most people don't seem to have a cause or a…

Well, nailed it in one. Everyone go home!

Or! Mayybbe get a Japanese actress to play the Japanese character from the Japanese series? How about Rinko Kikuchi? She can kick ass, she is popular with the kids these days and she knows her way around robots!

now all they need to do is change the logo back to SciFi and all will be forgiven

Now we're talkin':

For a more visual example of how things changed, using a pop culture quote:

Pole axe practice gear? Ummm...I can't recommend much of that. For sparring gear, you could try searching HEMA gear and then your country. In the US I found http://histfenc.us/ and I know that in the UK there's http://www.thehemashop.com/ but thankfully, when we need masks for class and other things, our instructor…

Okay. I have to post.

0. Most revolutions fail.

I think a good argument could be made than authoritarian societies (Romulans, Cardassians) would standardize and then eliminate non standard languages for the purposes of order. Vulcans may do so for the purposes of efficiency. Ferengi may so for the purposes of trading. I don't know why other species would though.…

Several Republicans also say that they've lost faith in President Obama's willingness to work together toward common solutions to climate change.

Shhhh!

Xena and Gabrielle. Soul mates, best friends, and BAMFS. Their friendship was unique because though it was tested, most of the series was the both of them supporting one another without resorting to a lot of stupid miscommunication that most tv trots out to "challenge" its characters.

The American system is pretty good to work out the middle ground over time. That is what will happen in the next 10 years ago. A populist party could work right now (and in a lot of senses it already does), but I believe will inevitebly lose to blue dog democrats again. (Remember http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ ?)

True. Some Swiss polsci nerds developped a tool called smartvote that allows to visually compare politicians. Here is Barack Obama's Smartspider: