Also, schadenfreude is a perfectly valid reason.

Dude, do not diss the Schoolhouse Rock. "I'm Just A Bill" and "Conjunction Junction" are classics.

Yeah, the other guy was complaining about waiters and waitresses, who obviously don't get minimum wage and do depend on tips.

I read one of the Koch books and it was awful. Bad SF, a lead character who ought to be named Mary Sue, implausible romance... I could go on, but geez it was so bad.

And they still didn't buy it, so it ended up in syndication instead.

I am at least 50% certain that Robert Downey Jr. might wear the "Halloween Avengers" at some point.

Okay, brainiac, how do you magically know which businesses pay minimum wage to their servers and which don't, so you know when you aren't "justified" in tipping? You're familiar with the laws of every state and the policies of every restaurant/bar?

Cars is basically a remake of "Doc Hollywood".

Och, that it is!

They do that in New York, too. Source: women I know in NYC.

I wonder why Mexico has a lower rate than the US and Canada? That seems to contradict the thesis of this topic. Do they have higher taxes on cigs or something? Is it culturally unpopular?

Nice, but I'd change the last line to "Jesus power!" It scans better, having two syllables like "Turtle" does.

Maybe they could just call him and the movie "Panther". I mean, we don't call the boss of SHIELD "Black Nick Fury" or other characters "White Iron Man" or "Green Hulk". I mean, he's black, we can all see that. Let's get away from the comic book trope of "Black Whatever" simply because the character's ancestors came…

10% of Card's money (at least) goes to the Mormon Church, which has brought us things like institutional racism within the memory of many of the people here (plus continuing sexism), Proposition 8, and Mitt Romney.

This is so thoughtfully written and well-presented that you deserve ALL THE STARS and at least one internet.

Start workin' now, Doc. Pull rank on someone.

Wronger on a male or female?

When I was in grade school, they READ "The Hobbit" to us every day after lunch. Also "A Wrinkle in Time".

That's because they were told they were going to be renewed (with some tweaks to format) and then they were canceled. Which they found out from "Entertainment Tonight", not from NBC, who didn't even bother to tell them till they called and went "wait, what?"

Mulder called him "Cancer Man", but the official name of the character was always "Cigarette Smoking Man".