There are a lot of genealogy sites out there including the big (expensive) gorilla ancestry.com. Start with your tree and see how your ancestors meet your expectations. I know I presumed there would be a lot of ancestors marrying young and a lot of older man/younger woman pairings. Neither was true. (Of course we…

The advertisements at the stadium reflected current product-placement, rather than the ads that would have been seen in the 1970's. No National Bohemian? No Schaefer's Beer? No Longines clock?

Being white.

Most people named Isis pronounce it EESees, fortunately.

As many an older man can tell you, you can shout "WHYYYYYYY" to the heavens, but no answer shall come. It just happens.

One thing suggested: The Tennessee Titans marketing group is weak. There's an excuse for the Titans failing to be number 1 in east Tenn — only so many people there. But failing to be the number 1 team in the Memphis market, and the failure to reach into non-Bengals Kentucky, including the big town of Louisville? …

This. The cluster on the right on economics seems extremely suspect — many people are heirs to the New Deal and the Great Society, are pro-environment and from the chart, you just don't see them except in the historically African-American churches.

Normal in the sense of not built like a superhero yes. But before he injured his hands, Strange was established as having brilliant intelligence, total mastery of a complex set of skills (surgery), and also as being very arrogant, stuck-up, and (as I read it) a bit of a bounder. He really wasn't anymore "normal"…

Normal in the sense of not built like a superhero yes. But before he injured his hands, Strange was established as having brilliant intelligence, total mastery of a complex set of skills (surgery), and also as being very arrogant, stuck-up, and (as I read it) a bit of a bounder. He really wasn't anymore "normal"…

Things Groot Hates:

Scary-ass Riddler. The only legitimately frightening bad guy from 60's Batman. Granted I was a kid but I still can see it.

Apples and oranges. The tears usually have to do with the margin of the final score. A whole lot of 12 year olds will cry when they lose a close game, not so much when they're way behind at the end. And they're kids, who cares if they cry when they lose? Get some pizza in 'em (or kimchee) and they'll be fine.

The Wrecking Crew has devolved over the years, but it's hard to see what the AoS cast could do facing them down, even now, except die really fast. They're all super-strong, bullet-proof, and since they're magically-powered, hard to de-power unless you're magic too. I'd challenge MCU to make them (plus Enchantress,…

The principle of conservation of mass would mean that a shrunken human at six inches would be much denser than steel. If you hit something heavy and dense with a stick, the stick splits and your arm stings (you can try it on a big rock right now).

I always wanted to make it into an opera. But its was well beyond my capability in that you'd have to compose a score that changed from absence-of-music to music and just having the start being a play and then it turning into opera when Jonas begins to receive didn't work. How would you write music that conveys the…

I think zipzanderhoff has the real answer but...

Hear Hear! The Internet has more of the "Superman sex would kill Lois" talk than it has pr)n, but it's ridiculous. Superman is in total control of his powers. Clark Kent doesn't rip doors of hinges, cause the building to collapse when he presses the elevator button, blow the Metropolis Starbucks straight to Gotham…

Cranston in Breaking Bad may be the best tv acting of the century. But couldn't you see in Malcolm in the Middle that there was a whole lot more to the actor? I rarely think "Wonder what that guy/woman is going to do next?" but I do remember thinking that about Hal. Cranston as Hal was no Dave Coulier, Bob Uecker,…

Someone may have answered this already, but Dawson as Claire T. in Daredevil almost certainly refers to Dr. Claire Temple, physician and love interest for Luke Cage in the first few years of the 1970's Hero for Hire comic.

I visited there 3 weeks back — way to go Denver! LoDo (Lower Downtown) is great.