Well that sounds absolutely stupid.

Its like negotiating, you start demanding a lot and concede down to a “reasonable” price. It is to try and distract people from questioning the law itself.

Being a big government fearmongering liberal probably helps. Those who think its only Republicans that are fearmongering tyrants are getting played.

First of all, overblown? Anyone with half a brain after the Snowden leaks should realize there is nothing overblown about the government’s ability and desire to secretly monitor the public.

Looks like not only is Yellow Cab NOT SF’s favorite cab company, it is nobody’s favorite can company.

You keep saying that like the failure of a terrible business that is only productive because of the government is a bad thing.

Having lived in the Bay Area your snark is truer than you wish it were. Public transportation is a freaking nightmare. And why wouldn’t it be? Thanks to government granted monopolies it isn’t like competition is an issue.

That is what happens when you artificially support something no one wants because there are better services. It is the basic boom and bust cycle.

If I can buy a zucchini from a hippie using their a card reader attached to their phone there is no logical reason I shouldn’t be able to do the same with a cab.

Captain America is a first generation American, born to immigrant parents, struggling to make it in a impoverished New York neighborhood, adopting the quintessential American values even as they seek to find their way in a new place, among new people, in a new society. That sounds like a purely American story to me,…

So a small child adopted by American parents and brought to the States isn’t an immigrant? Sounds more to be like you have a very narrow idea of the variety of immigrant experiments.

The Jesus imagery doesn’t really become dominant until the Death of Superman. An all powerful being who looks human dies fighting a powerful personification of Death and Hell, named for the end of all things, only to raise from the dead to overthrow a tyrant and bring salvation to his people. He also had disciples who…

“Many people have criticized the extreme individualism of the Kents—at one point, Ma Kent tells Clark “You don’t owe them,” referring to the human race, and Pa Kent famously suggests that Clark should have let a busload of schoolchildren drown instead of rvealing his powers. This may make more sense now that we know…

Yes, a metaphor for extinction, implying we are going to go extinct because of carbon just like the dinosaurs did. Except they didn’t. Perhaps you’re the one in need of remedial English courses, maybe even science too.

Why exactly is it so surprising that current carbon amounts are the largest since the dinosaurs? Even if carbon was only a fraction of what it is now it would be the largest since the dinosaurs.

Loki really isn’t “genderqueer” anymore than he is also “gendernormative,” “adultchild,” “teenchild,” “AsgardianJotun,” or any other descriptors you can string together by comparing his various states of existence. As JMS wrote when he revived Thor and all the Asgardians, they aren’t people, they’re archetypes. In…

I actually think the current problems with the justice system makes the Punisher an even more darkly appealing character. He is above corruption. The mob boss, corrupt cop, politically connected dealer, they all have something to fear from him, no one escapes.

Thanks to the way American history is often told, most people don’t seem to understand that segregation and violent racism were, and are, NATIONAL issues, not only Southern ones. Jim Crow was everywhere.

I don’t think so. Marvel has been pushing Captain Marvel for years now, making her a major player and looking for more brand recognition. They clearly want her comic to succeed. Why wouldn’t they want her movie too? Also, the comics division has no control over Disney’s toymaking division.

AffleAffleck as Wayne was never a concern of mine. It shouldn’t be hard for rich white guy to play a rich white guy. It is the Batman part I have trouble believing.