I'm glad you're so even-handed about this.  I thought Sesame Street was embargoed by the Christian Right long ago, for having colored people on it, and for talking about diversity and self-esteem.  For that matter, the rumor that Bert and Ernie were lovers has been around for decades; this New Yorker cover is no more…

Oh, don't worry.  Once we can get married, we'll be able to join heterosexuals in sneaky down-low sordidness and sleaze.  It's now only a matter of time before we start seeing news stories about the
Baptist minister, father of two, with a loving husband of twenty years
at home, caught making sexual advances to an…

Really?  Then I won't bother renting it.  I've noticed that while horror movie fans like to prattle about breaking taboos, they tend to have certain taboos — male nudity and male homosex — that are Truely Sacred and must not be broken, or they run gagging for the exits.

If you don't know that the book was written by H. G. Wells instead of Orson Welles, it's hard to take you seriously.  This is like Lord of the Rings fans who spell the author's name "Tolkein."

I hear that some scientists also taught a gorilla that it, too, is mortal and will die.  How awful is that?

"It's Jesus that got people thinking God was a nice guy."  Wait a minute — Jesus taught that Jesus was an abusive father who would send you to Hell to be tortured forever if you weren't good, but he'd let you off the hook if you ate Jesus' body and drank his blood.  A nice guy?

No, the Silent Majority was the Boomers' parents.  That trope belongs to the Nixon regime circa 1970, so it refers to people who were sick and tired of the hippies and the student radicals, who were the Boomers.

No, the Silent Majority was the Boomers' parents.  That trope belongs to the Nixon regime circa 1970, so it refers to people who were sick and tired of the hippies and the student radicals, who were the Boomers.

Wow, nobody in any other generation every made shitty business decisions?

Wow, nobody in any other generation every made shitty business decisions?

I can't wait for the Comic Book History of Comic Book Histories of American Comics.

I can't wait for the Comic Book History of Comic Book Histories of American Comics.