The story you are talking about, “The Final Problem”, was created absolutely to kill Holmes because Doyle was beginning to realize that his other literary work was being overshadowed by Sherlock Holmes.

He famously said “I must save my mind for better things, even if it means I must bury my pocketbook with him.”.

He was…

“Why should it cheapen a franchise to listen to queer fans?”

This is not my point at all. At all.

My point is that art tends to suffer when fan demands are taken into consideration in any capacity and acts as a sort of tall tree swaying in the direction of the prevailing winds.

It creates false art. If something gets…

Yeah. I’m absolutely, 100 percent in favor of an LGBT relationship in Star Wars or ANY franchise or film. What makes me sort of double-take and think twice is when fans *demand* something take place in a work of art, because it isn’t fair to the artist or the art itself, and artists are constantly taught that you…

I have no doubt that that’s precisely the reason, in fact. But at the end of the day, the practical reality is that Star Wars has now been asked to intentionally insert something into its creative vision that it may-or-may-not already be doing. If they were already doing it, it will be seen as a direct reaction to the…

“...which seems to have taken place at Coachella”

Every time I hear about something terrible I always assume this phrase is going to show up until proven otherwise.

I can never get fully on-board with stuff like this. Having fans dictate art/cinema/creative endeavors is one of those “don’t do it” things. So now is there a giant shadow cast over Star Wars because it, specifically, has been given the burden of fulfilling something these fans want it to do? Especially when you…

“ the man who who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne’s parents.

“There are moral and ethical implications involved with the killing of animals”

But not, apparently, murder and death threats against human beings. Those are A-OK!

Every few years I see a story about this show and think “No, that CAN’T still be on the air, can it? No way.” and lo and behold it is. Inexplicably, unceasingly.

My father was an engineer at Compaq from the beginning. He was on the team that reverse-engineered the IBM bios and created the PC-clone market.

Those were the days, man.

Our best-case scenario, and the one I’m pulling for, hard, is that the GOP pulls some crazy last-minute shenanigans and awards the nomination to Cruz (which is absolutely possible at this point), which pisses off Trump so he runs 3rd party.

Dems win in a landslide.

“A Paleo-inspired menu”

Nope. I’m out.

I don’t see the problem with what Anne posted. It’s basically what Jez has been doing for the last 48 hours in a convenient, smaller video file. This update included.

Fuck both of them TBH.

This is the best kinja I will see all week.

And we are, of course, all aware of the sterling record of AFA and OMM’s boycott calls of the past.

The Sand Snakes continue to be eye-roll-worthy but everything else was good and right so I’mma let that part slide.

You best not fill me with hope and then destroy it, Season 6.

“He never asked me to convert but he was willing to keep me on the side.”

How noble.

It’s nice to have validation from internet strangers. I live for it.

There is a fairly consistent theme in the very devout when it comes to stuff like this. They actually cannot understand non-belief as a concept. They have no idea how to process it, so the default is to just assume that you must have never heard the gospel before or not heard it “correctly” or any other number of…