But US senators and presidential candidates talking about turning Iran into a parking lot, singing "Bomb bomb Iran" is acceptable?

It's going to happen anyway. The electorate — and even the internet — doesn't have the stamina to continue to mount opposition to the bill and its descendants every time they come up in Congress. The media corporations will wait us out.

I see what you did there.

One in twelve members of the House has a negative/zero net worth at the moment. Moreover, the majority of current House members were working/middle-class before joining Congress.

Grassley was a co-sponsor of PIPA when it was introduced last year. He was a cosponsor of its predecessor, COICA, in 2010.

If it were the case that only personal money (and minimal private contributions) could be used to finance campaigns, only the richest Americans could hope to win office. Is that what you want?

Democracy has always been for sale. That's the way it worked in Greece, and that's the way it worked in the time of the Founding Fathers.

No mention of Gene's Wolfe's Book of the New Sun? The work that more than one author on the above list has called the greatest work of our time? The multiple Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, BSFA-winner?

I'm very glad to see the Black Company books on this list. The Books of the South and The Silver Spike spin-off are mediocre, but the original trilogy and the Glittering Stone books are fantastic.

If gamers refused to buy the products of sweat shop labor, the problems would be resolved. Businesses provide customers with what they want — in this case, the least-expensive consoles possible.

I accept Amazon, Trader Joe's, and cash. Thanks, gift-givers!

Hey, I said the same thing about Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask compared to Link to the Past/Link's Awakening.

Rival Schools/Justice Gakuen Akira.

So is Rufus the final SF character and Asuka the final Tekken character (apart from the obvious Devil Jin/God Akuma boss characters)?

Asuka vs. Akira would have been better.

I like how the original four games (i.e, the best four games) all work just fine, then Ocarina comes in and screws everything up.

Sorry, I should have been more specific — I meant, why does it feel sleezy to give small amounts of money as opposed to not participating at all, especially if you're not likely to bother with the games?

I bought a PSP for Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles.

Isn't the point to "earn coal from a bunch of different accounts and then gift them to the primary account?

Slightly off-topic, but what's the Vita's screen like? I know it's an AMOLED at qHD resolution, but is it PenTile?