Though you gotta admit, his reply of 'what's it called when you get screwed by a dead magazine' was a clever rejoinder.

I didn 't say he was the best in the Negro League, but he was certainly among the best. I just meant that as well as all those above-mentioned qualities, he had to be a great athlete.
And he was the best all-around player on the Dodgers.

True, but also for his athletic ability. The first black ballplayer in the majors not only had to be the most disciplined, restrained and brave man Rickey could find, but also had to be a phenomenal player. He had to be better than everyone around him on nearly every level, and Robinson was.
The first openly gay…

Sorry, 'gloss over' was too harsh. And the theme of the discussion was race relations in an African-American context, so clearly that would be the focus of comment. Apologies if I sounded pissy.
And you are totally right regarding society's compensation mechanism. Imagine the outrage if they hired a white actor to…

I agree with most of your comment, but to deny segregation of the aboriginal population is crazy. The rez system was specifically designed with segregation in mind. And while it's true that natives weren't enslaved en masse, there were many instances of forced labour. Also, remember that many First Nations were…

I can see that, and there's no denying that Robinson had a very successful post-athletic career. And, to be honest, over the course of his playing career, he won over many white fans and teammates.
Though I would counter that boxing is a sport which eats its young, and Louis was not the first black champion. It would…

I haven't seen 42, so I can't speak to how Robinson's struggles were depicted, but being part of a white team was in some ways worse. Many of his own teammates, and most players in general, were wildly antagonistic; the idea of having to earn the grudging respect of your teammates, when you are a demonstrably better…

Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs team up for new album, tour, crime-fighting

Just the line "this award is going home in a Honda Civic" killed me.

The comment was actually meant to be facetious, and just a long-winded set-up for the phrase 'stormtroopers get their freak on'.

Well, I guess I owe you a Coke.

It's spelled smoove.

Upvoted for no no bits.

Well, despite having been raised in some ruthless warrior environment, Finn seems a bit inexperienced and naïve, whereas Poe is a high-ranking well-respected pilot, so there is a bit of a power imbalance. Poe would have to be a little sensitive to that.
But who knows how stormtroopers like to get their freak on.

You're thinking of Woody Allen.

I would love an entire series about those three triad leaders. Cool actors in fascinating roles - all three were cold-blooded bastards, yet somehow infused tiny moments of humour and humanity.
James Hong rules. Maybe a spin-off show with Hong and Noble - I would watch the shit out of a show like that.

How many were in movies directed by cigar smokin' chimps?
(But seriously, gender inequality in general, in Hollywood in particular, is shameful. And yet, I'm part of the problem - there are only a small few directrices I could name, and I have never gone out of my way to see a directrice's film, whereas I'll stand in…

The text to which I'm referring, quite obviously, is your bible. That load of sweeping fantasy, which I have explicitly referred to again and again.
I get the impression you're not reading my responses, as I've answered this question before, and you're not addressing anything I've said.
In any event, this conversation…

I read your post. Now (and then, and during) I wish I hadn't, but I read it. The self-contradictory text I was referring to was the source, not your post.
I'm sure you're very sincere in both your pursuit of 'the integrity of the word of God' and the belief that this text is the word of god, and not a bunch of fables…

Yes, how verbal gymnastics can save even the most blatantly self-contradictory of texts.
Look, I'm sorry if I sound snarky about it (15 years of Catholic school will do that to a person, unless they're a homosexual, in which case suicide is a common occurrence), but that long-winded explanation of the inconsistency of…