I remember that. I was a kid when I saw it, and it freaked me out too.

I saw the Nat theatre production where Cumberbatch and Miller swap roles, and the monster does indeed look scarred and grotesque. The monster in the book is supposed to look grotesque, but not necessarily due to scarring. The also add a graphic rape, BTW, which sort of caught my 14 year old daughter off guard.

Tried to watch "Brazil" the other day, and I found it was almost impossible. Just the pre-credit sequence reduced me to near tears (exacerbated when my daughter asked who was setting all of those bombs anyway, and I had to explain that it was, in fact, the government, and then I had to explain why, and then I could…

A survey of all sequenced genomes reveals that genes for transposases (which catalyze the mobilization of "jumping genes") are the most widespread by a wide margin.

She may very well have forgiven her father, but that does not mean she has to lie in his Obituary. If he did not want to be described as an a-hole in his obituary, he should not have been an a-hole.

Most adorable kitty ever!

This is a web site about pop culture. SNL is pop culture. Does it matter? For better or worse, the POTUS thinks it does.

Oh man. Now I'm going to have to look that up (and test my students on it).

Please bring back Billy Bush.

In what way, pray tell, was Maria brought up where she was not supposed to call a penis a penis? Was another word preferred, or was the subject just never mentioned? Aren't there doctors in her family? I'm pretty sure there are. Oh yes, one of them attended the medical school where I teach. What word does he use?

Well, yes. Moving from "pussy" to "penis" is progress. The first is derisive slang and the second is the correct anatomical term. Using the word "penis" (as opposed to, say, "cock") shows some level of maturity. Using the word "pussy" is juvenile (when referring to female genitalia, that is. It's fine when talking…

I'm a medical school professor. There is nothing liberal about being comfortable with the word penis. There is nothing oppressive about saying the word penis. It's a body part. It's no different than leg, or stomach, or neck, or pancreas.

Ugh. Like the world had too few erections.

Actually, he (or she) would be counseling men to stop having sex. Every single abortion can be linked to a sperm that had the audacity to fertilize an egg, and it did not get there on its own folks. It is completely within the power of men to stop abortions by refraining from all except intentionally procreative sex.…

Can he just come out and say that he is against IVF and other technologies that help infertile couples? Because I would 'effing love to sic those folks on him.

OMG. Totally written on acid.

Bummer for CNN. They were really hoping to be free of these people. Another broken promise.

A friend of mine pointed out that there is a naked breast in the Virginia flag, to which I replied that if it was on the Maryland flag, there would be several large breasts in two opposing quadrants, and then giant arrows pointing at them from the other two, because we know how to do flags.

Yes. A thousand time yes.

Walks are between 3 and 5 miles, to be more precise, which is not very long when you live in the country. The horses are average sized (except for my mini, who is tiny).