Just got finished with a long thread on the scourge of slutty prom dresses, and I have to say, this is so much worse.

Well he still sounds more fun than my friends who took Downton Abbey very seriously. People! It's a soap opera.

So yeah. I guess if you are colonizing another planet, it is almost a requirement that everyone already be in couples (or maybe harems, but couples is better for genetic diversity). Otherwise you are setting yourself up for even more strife than you are going to get anyway. There is going to be some infidelity, etc.,…

You have a friend who does not know why Batman is not an Avenger? Wait, I suppose I probably have friends who do not know that either, but we don't talk about that sort of stuff.

I figured she needed him for some reason. He knows a lot of stuff, after all. Or maybe she was lonely. It did not seem like too outrageous a decision to me, but certainly dangerous.

It was decent, some squirm-inducing body horror (I think particularly if you are a woman), some legitimately tense and scary sequences, nice return to the well of (possible) artificial humans who do not know they are artificial. It was also unintentionally silly in places. Not a great film, but not a total…

"Event Horizon" is not a horrible movie, but I would hardly call it outstanding, or even great.

Really? I totally saw Archie as a victim there. She was a predator, and she was manipulating him emotionally.

That's a really good point, but also a good way to get himself or someone close to him killed.

Good point about the writers not wanting to go through with it. I did not want them to go through with it (I really feel old thinking that). I have been very impressed with the show so far in it's treatment of teen sex as a serious subject. Sex on this show has consequences.

I'm pretty sure the "in the kitchen with Jughead" option did not happen after the visit from the Serpents.

So much yes to point number one. Jughead was about to have sex with Betty. He was about to have sex for the first time in his life I'm guessing. Then, oh, heh, a bunch of old guys with a jacket! Admittedly, he looked great in it, but still. I'm going assume that the sex thing did not happen, so thanks a lot Serpents.

Yeah. The whole giving stuff away thing was really obvious. I think any teen woulds recognize it.

Absolutely. that was no disgruntled serpent. Who the hell robs a diner at breakfast time?

He can come post-doc in my lab, except that everyone had to go home today because the whole building smelled really bad. On second thought, he can probably do better than that.

Wait, I just noticed that this story is a year old. Why did it just appear on my FB feed?

I felt obligated to read "Atlas Shrugged" because it's cited so frequently. Torture, pure torture. I'm sure there are worse books, but they do not achieve such fame that they become obligate reading.

I'll go with "Dirty Dancing". Why the hell is that movie so beloved? Does anyone pay attention to what actually happens in that movie?

I'm 50, and I hate it. Hated it when I saw it on stage before the movie came out and then a couple of years later when I saw the movie. I don't know what the original comment says because it's been deleted, but OMG do I hate Grease.

Or as though an aspirational goal for an incredibly complex health care program is something that counts as a pinky swear. When Obama said you could keep your doctor, he did his best to make that happen. But ultimately it's up to your doctor and your insurance plan. If my OB/gyn decides to stop handling pregnancies,…