NO. This is the universe we did not need. We never needed to read fascist revisionist history like 300, nor see the hyper-fascist film version of the same, nor did the director of that movie need to be unleashed upon the world (and the DC Universe) like a swarm of Goebbels-engineered locusts.

Hitler is masturbating in…

"The consensus Batman masterpiece is an argument for vigilante fascism"

Aaaannnnd you forgot to add that Batman is responsible for making the creator of his "consensus masterpiece" — Frank "I Not-So-Secretly Love Fascism" Miller — into an A-list comics writer. That was the exact moment when our universe veered into the…

PAYDAY LENDING. The ultimate "prey on people when they're vulnerable" business model.

I'm in the same boat. I've watched literally thousands of horror movies over the years, most of them from back in the day when they were still scary (not just gory). I like horror games. But I just CANNOT HANDLE jump scares. Can't do it.

"the idea of marking email as "done" rather than "read" makes so much sense I frankly wonder how it took this long to get here."

Is that a feature of Inbox, or Google Apps? I could really use that.

Boom! Exactly.

Sorry, folks, but this is the good old Fake Geek Girl argument all over again, only with nice feministy language and added concern trolling. Every discussion I've seen on this topic — and I do mean every — is undeniably heteronormative and utterly retrograde in its language about women's motivations and how they exist…

I feel like this is an excellent opportunity for me to post one of my favorite things I have ever found on the Internet.

I'm pretty phobic about parasites, and one of the worst things I've ever experienced was in 9th grade — when I had to spend a full semester of history class sitting behind a girl with untreated lice. I've never been waterboarded, but I'm still 100% sure it's not as bad as watching helplessly as bugs climbed around on…

Never be ashamed to love Billy Idol.

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I'm having a pretty hard time keeping it together over Sherlock the guinea pig. DOES HE SOLVE TINY CRIMES?!

All hail our new queen, Vulvatron! Long may she reign!

"From that day at the doctor's office to my twenties, ED was a kind of pop culture. I read the books, watched the Lifetime movies (one very good one starred Tracey Gold from Growing Pains), and while most carried a warning, I treated them all like a makeover episode of a daytime talk show and went nuts for The Big…

My Mom suffers from disordered eating and body image issues. (I use the present tense because, while Mom has gotten better, eating disorders are a lot like alcoholism or drug addiction — you're never not disordered, you're just in recovery.) At various times during my childhood Mom was actively anorexic and/or…

The other half is getting young "journalists" to understand AP style, which Ms. Hagerty seems to grasp quite well — hence her freedom from the Oxford comma.

"An architect who seven years ago suddenly and mysteriously lost the ability to read and write, ... Only recently did he find an explanation. While casually repeating his story during a fitting, a customer burst out a possible diagnosis, "Daniel, you've got Lyme disease."

The best part is the two little cheerleaders who, by the end, are visibly cheering on the downfall of their football-playing brethren.

You are the best mom.

Back in GWAR's alad days, they had a part-time female singer and performer called Slymenstra Hymen. Fierce lady singers are not exactly a new thing for GWAR.