Allen Tate looks to be our second Poet Laureate so maybe him if we're doing writers. Although his statements like, "Our purpose..is to keep the negro blood from passing into the white race" might make him a terrible choice on reflection.

Out of context it was meant to mean the nicer "You will be assimilated. Your technological and biological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."

I think the Chinese had a tradition of the "official" portrait of the Emperor, looking grand and regal, and the "secret" portrait that was to be as accurate as possible. But maybe that's a legend I read somewhere. (Although I seem to recall a side-to-side where they had the grand picture and then the one with kind of…

I knew what it was, but today my mind briefly went to a snowy cover or version of Skyfall.

That said it's not a universally Democratic state. The 1st (Shasta et alia, which was once more Democratic), 4th (borders Nevada near Carson City), 23rd (Southern San Joaquin), and 50th (looks to be San Diego suburbs) districts are quite Republican. And though Hillary won the 45th it looks to have always been…

I was trying to do what you guys were doing. Jasoo practically accused some of you of being racist for bringing it up on Tyson.

Decalogue that's what I was thinking.

Oh, okay 8 is obvious now. (I think events, particularly the CNN logo deal, have given that movie renewed attention.)

That I could see. I didn't see it until I was an adult, but maybe his energy works better if you're a child.

Not forgiving a black man. Typical.

He has children, also he actually managed to get some kind of health deal through the House. Oh sure most may feel it's terrible, but something. He also was primary sponsor of legislation that, "renamed a post office in his district; the other, passed in December 2008, lowered the excise tax on arrow shafts." I don't…

I don't know about that, but I did think the poster was a woman.

Maybe she ordinarily does soft science fiction or biological science fiction and is just at a physics lecture to broaden her horizons? (Her description about how the guy should give up the girl to save the world reminded me a bit of "The Man Who Learned Loving" and Sturgeon wasn't, I don't think, all that science…

1) Arachnophobia?
2) Sleepless in Seattle
4) Explorers. I love it because of DVD you can slow down this one scene and Wolfgang (River Phoenix) library and see all this classic science fiction. Even The End of Eternity by Asimov. Which I reread as an adult. I didn't love it as much as when I was a teen, but it held up…

D'oh, you already had "Wagons East!"

They seemed to show that movie like every time I visited my late grandmother. (All my grandparents are dead.) To be honest though I never cared for it too much, it was just always on. (I seem to be Martin Short resistant. I don't know that I've ever found him especially funny in anything.)

I've only watched one and I kind of go "eh, so-so" thus far. I mean it's not actively bad, but if it weren't Summer and slightly science-fictiony I might not bother.

"And in time it will be slowly forgotten by everyone, even me" Nicole Kidman probably. Well maybe.

Flagrant false advertising! Just like 48 hours.

Good on him. (I'm confused on my role here. Should I be positive on a Republican in cases like this, as I've stated I'm a conservative, or shut my yap?)