The "war years" collection of Disney shorts contains a surprisingly scary cartoon about how vaccines prevent the spread of disease. I never thought I would have to use it as an educational tool, but I've had cause to play it for more than one new parent in the past few years.

More's the pity, because the Mortdecai books, by Kyril Bonfiglioli, are excellent.

Frederik Meijer? Did this chain of stores expand into the Pacific Northwest and change the name to Fred Meyer?

It's absolutely the attitude of Americans toward firearms, and not the availability of guns, that is the problem. We Yanks have a well-earned reputation for using violence as a first response. There is a strange attitude that equates measured responses with cowardice.

If treated with any significant degree of realism, both space travel and space warfare would be very, extremely dull to watch.

We had a substitute in 8th grade that, while taking attendance, attempted to guess the ethnic origin of every student based on their names. Out loud. Poorly.

"Get better ratings" is a suggestion for how to, well, get better ratings. It's the episode where the air conditioning is broken and everyone is spacing out.

She can neither see nor hear you. It's like when travelling with the spirits in A Christmas Carol, or more accurately, like that recurring dream you have but dare tell no one about.

$50 and time served, internet.

A great parody of that attitude is featured on the cartoon Mission Hill. when an elderly scientist is lamenting over dinner that he never managed to make needles from space more painful, or that Harry Truman was a man who "just didn't care whether the kill circle was elliptical".

Perhaps it should not have been.

It's a mess, and the shifts in tone aren't done well at all. Also, Murray's character seems more unhinged than redeemed at the end. He's completely insane and taking everyone with him.

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I disagree!

I used to operate under the assumption that Jon, like so many pet owners, is anthropomorphizing Garfield and Odie a bit and filling in their thought bubbles with his perception of their nonverbal cues. I've often imagined my cat chastising me with a cutting look, after all.

I think the confusion stems from the high voice Nermal had on the old Garfield and Friends cartoon show. Nermal is indeed male, but is still a kitten, and so his voice hasn't yet changed.

Grey in England, gray in America, is a useful mnemonic for this delicate situation.

I doubt that they recite the teachings the way they recite, say, a loyalty oath for ex-confederates, reworked to affirm the godliness of the United States. Daily. In classrooms K-12 across the nation.

It's a real wasted opportunity, as Charlie Mortdecai is a very entertaining literary character. What's odd is that Depp isn't the strangest casting decision in the film. That would be Gwyneth Paltrow, whose character is a voluptuous Austrian billionaire in the books.

Indeed. DC characters are paragons, while most Marvel characters are more humanist and flawed, by design.

Hears about it? He ordered Joey to do it.