Wouldn’t that be an awfully good question to build a story around though?

You think Bush would have put Kagan or Sotomayor on the bench? You think a republican president would have repealed Don’t ask, don’t tell? You can call the ACA a heritage foundation health plan all you want, but do you think a more significantly socialised plan would have made it through congress? The Democrats are to…

On the whole I absolutely agree with you, though I thought that Abrams’ Star Trek movies did a mostly good job of combining real locations and futuristic sixties inspired design. I feel Nolan is the real culprit here, he goes out of his way to make things in his movies look mundane. Guardians of the Galaxy definitely…

Emphasis on as best we could, because the way that yeast and bacteria propagate themselves through the air meant that it was impossible to keep any starter separate or pure. Not even mentioning the fact that rougher stonemilled flours are also still teeming with yeasts too, so every feeding further dilutes the…

Not to mention when, after years of hearing nothing but ‘yes, mr Trump, right away, mr Trump’ his coddled ego will run aground on the government bureaucracies, and his whole ‘I’m a business man, I know how to get things done’-shpiel will come crashing down. If he somehow manages to get elected I imagine he’ll resign…

So, it’s a Terry Jones movie. Of the Pythons who went on to make movies he’s never been the most distinguished. I’m quite a fan of his Wind in the Willows movie, but he’s maybe just too nice to really do a concept like this justice. His sensibility is warm and silly, not cold and agressive (like Cleese and Chapman),…

Thought that was Michael Keaton for a second and was briefly very interested.

Come on, these jokes are getting so old, grow up. His name is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cunterblast.

Another uncritical agribusiness article on io9, what a surprise!

Well, exactly, think of how much more food we can grow if stopped putting corn and soy in everything.

Yes, but that’s assuming nothing changes in the way agriculture is done in this country. If there were a greater shift in eating locally, we’d also have to change the way we farm. It would be a simple matter of demand. That’s not saying there wouldn’t be a loss of diversity, especially seasonally, as anyone with a CSA…

I’m surprised this isn’t on the list.

So, Ben Kingsley actually turned down a part?

I think you mean Roger Deakins is director of photography on Blade Runner 2, with Denis Villeneuve actually directing the film.

Even during the German occupation of the Netherlands servants could still get stipulations in their contracts about not having to eat salmon too often.

I don’t know if it was that cheaply or glibly done on the Sopranos. It wasn’t done to bring a quick thrill and they showed it as having a longlasting effect on Melfi’s character. Not that it was the right direction, as it was ultimately just a way for her to be tempted to ask Tony to ‘help’ her, and afterwards her…

Okay, so he may not have expressed himself too well here, but Pegg is not wrong. Well, not entirely wrong. The movies he mentions are from the seventies, when for a brief time Hollywood was able to produce smart, artistic and grown up films, and blockbusters like Jaws and Star Wars did herald an enormous change. I can…

So basically Marvel is worried about bad publicity and went straight for the one director who could make them look better. It seems to me that Ava Duvernay could make a lot more interesting films than the umpteenth Marvel movie.

I’m glad there are goons out there putting their shitty lifts on youtube. That way I know that when people talk about lifting with bad form they’re really not talking about me,

And a lot of those bodybuilder-types have this attitude that their ability to gain a hundred pounds of muscle means that everyone should be able to fix all their problems themselves. Social safetynets are for puny losers.