The thing with Magneto, the thing that makes him work, is that he isn’t really a villain. He’s an antagonist, yes, but from the beginning he was portrayed as someone who wants the same things as Xavier but simply pursues it by different means.

I mean, it’s not impossible, but consider the facts:

They’re continuing to deny that the president or anyone not already indicted or dead knew anything about it until the story blew up.

Well, no. They’re pro- only one thing, and that is Penn State. But they’ve decided that this means being anti-sexual-assault-survivor, which, if not actually pro-child-molester, is at least pro-child-molester-enabler. And I’m not exactly a life-long PSU hater, either: I thought the Freeh Report was a sloppy hatchet…

I think it’s the perfect solution to the Div I playoff question. Instead of everybody playing 4 shitty opponents, 6 mediocre ones, and maybe 2 actually good teams, just have all the good teams play each other exclusively.

Given what we now know about Jimmy Savile - everyone at the BBC, at the NHS, and in the British music industry knew and did nothing until he died - and the Catholic Church - which was something of an open secret for years before the scandal broke - I find it entirely credible that nearly Division I head coach and…

This is a shitty take on a shitty idea for a website.

What’s the point of this article? That because someone from a country not known for distance runners is having international success, she must be doping? Or is it that anyone having international success in sports must be doping?

Or, everyone in a position to give him that kind of job also knew (or had heard credible-enough rumors).

A real scientist would have made sure to crinkle the Sun Chips bag the same distance away from the sensor because the measured number of dB depends on how close the source is to the measuring device.

The problem is that there are two kinds of safe spaces. One is, “everyone is safe to talk about their thoughts and feelings,” but another is, “everyone is safe from exposure to the hurtful thoughts and feelings of others.”

Exactly this. GLAAD isn’t getting enough press, so they do a thing about Star Wars specifically, and the media, either because they don’t realize their being manipulated or because they do, take the bait.

He is more of a superhero than Aquaman.

Yeah, but that kind of fuzziness is also true of westerns - you’ve got musicals (the “horse opera” that inspired “soap opera” and “space opera”), comedies, hard-boiled action, character-driven drama, socialist allegory - in Kung Fu you’ve even got martial arts. Western, like Super-hero, is less a genre than a…

So... HDR videos get extra color correction, as if over-use of color correction wasn’t a blight on the movie watching experience already.

The worst part is, I could get into a good all-female Ghostbusters reboot. I kind of love the idea of re-imagining Egon as a queer geek, for instance. But everything I’ve seen about this movie is that it lacks all the wit and charm of the original movies, from the design aesthetic of the props to the terrible special…

Let’s have Valbuena put a slander claim in court against this guy’s claim to get his phone replaced, and see who ends up having to pay whom.

If it makes you feel better, it still wouldn’t have been funny.

You’re probably right and that makes me sad/bothered.

Paul McCartney, someone from Oasis, Jay-Z, Dylan.