Va. Code 18.2-67.4, sexual battery is the charge that's made when prison guards have sex with (adult) prisoners, or a parole officer has sex with (adult) parolees. What you are thinking of is aggravated sexual battery in the felony part of the code — if the lawmen accused of sexual battery use force, it's also…

Great essay man!

So I respectfully disagree. First, the MCU's success is at least partially due to their keeping the "marvel" in the MCU — whether it's large things or small things they usually respect the source, and the source of the MCU is Marvel comics, as a whole. Yes, they had the Trevor Mandarin, but they also showed the…

Well if you go back that far, there's the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman — which was pretty popular and "zeitgeisty" in its first season. But campy like the Batman TV show, which isn't the sort of humor modern movies have. But honestly I do think that WW would be a starting place. Her character in Super Friends and in…

This. Legal medicinal use is what catalyzed stores to develop edibles, because a lot of the conditions that pot is used to treat (cancer chemo, AIDS) have patients who need to eat. And really if you have cancer, do you want to be inhaling smoke anyway? So edibles developed and they look yummy and recreational users…

In the 616 Avengers in 1981 in a Jim Shooter/Bob Hall issue. Avengers 212-213.

Wasn't that a quote from Michael Douglas? Good actor, not much of a wordsmith, I suppose. But wouldn't mentor/protoge or mentor/apprentice sound nicer? "Mentee" has the stink of 80's business jargon to it. And it sounds like manatee. Of course if there is a shrinking intelligent manatee in the movie, all the…

Kansas City International Airport closed its Terminal A within the past year. It was designed in a way that made post 9/11 security a challenge, and airline consolidation reduced demand when it's hub status diminished. Hopefully they'll do something before it ends up looking like Nicosia.

Spain's real estate bubble was enormous. The airports, along with many residential and office developments, collapsed when the bubble burst.

DC's The Protector — special stay-off-drugs Robin substitute from the Teen Titans.

Actually Time Warner is in the process of spinning off Time Inc., and the line of magazines they publish into a free-standing independent company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Inc. My google fu is not up to the challenge of figuring out whether the spinoff is complete tonight, I'm afraid, but the Fox deal is…

I laughed! And I needed the laugh today.

At my favorite place to get BLT's the cook drops the bacon into the deep fryer. Art, science, whatever, that's some bacon I tell you what.

No fin — No Yondu

Tree Kangaroos are the bomb.

Does this mean that the next Avengers will be "Civil War?"

Add in a healthy Tracy Morgan as Astronaut Jones, and McGruber as the ultimate redshirt.

Criminals are a cowardly superstitious lot. and their blood is delicious.

Except for the gender equity I'm getting a strong Menudo vibe:

Wait, katabatic winds are real? I always thought Chris Claremont made that word up.