Hopefully, power will diffuse a bit, and not just find another unstable center. But it can't come soon enough for our well-being as a nation.

"A personal connection between the characters gives the conflict more emotional heft."

That would be pretty cool as a second or third installment.

You are on fire today. You might wanna get that checked. Especially given.. what you saw.

I am down with everything you said. x2

Gotta say, it would be nice if anybody in the main cast,even the villain, could be above 28. You know, like maybe stretch it to fogeys four or five years older than that?

The 1960's?

Shouldn't "Goin' Solo" the tatted on her right hand?

Duly noted. Maybe you should have gone with Napoleon or Nelson.

My informed and cynical pragmatism leads me to side with the naive and well-meaning every time over the jaded and evil because only the former has a shot, however slim, of making things better.

I'm genuinely glad to hear that. I need the occasional shot of Republican reasonableness to keep me going.

Yeah, well, the problem with being the US is that our incredible economic, military, and social power means that everybody in the world has a legitimate stake in what we do.

Wow- the cited conclusion makes junk of the whole thing. Have the researchers never even heard the phrase "correlation is not causation"? They not only assume the direction of causality, but then go ahead and tell us what they'd like us to make of their findings.

Yes, or me clearly understanding John Lennon's meaning when he stated in an interview that there was no jizz left in the Beatles. I loved the phrase and grasped his meaning, but not the idiom. So 12 y.o. me used it all the time to refer to anything spent or old or boring. To my Mom, my teachers... whoever. It's…

Um... isn't the lead buried here? Doctor Strange's script has advanced far enough that Carroll has something to consult on?

Rendezvous with Rama. Want.

My Dad is Eastwood. Do ya feel lucky?

Yup. Somebody here knows anything you'd want to know.

The only form of media I see right now that really strikes me as new is podcasts. Webcomics are still almost entirely weekly or daily, and in the same format as printed comics. Most web content is like that- not much changed by it's jump from an old medium to a new one. Even blogs are either published…

They had a shot- it could have been so. The Matrix could have been a legendary starting point IF they had successfully extended the story and the world. Instead, the sequels diminished the protagonists and the concepts while exploding the world.