Over the years the comics and movie folks have done their damnedest to make him a sympathetic character, using his experiences as a young Jewish boy who loses his parents at a concentration camp during World War II to justify his evil actions.

He's 18, which means he's legally an adult. And, he's a serial rapist, which means the potential for him to strike again is high. I don't get your complaint at all. If he was 12 or 13 and doing this, I would likely agree with you, but no, he needs to have his name and picture spread around so women and girls are…

Witches and blonde innocents, all the mystical weirdness . . . Burton is basically a Symbolist painter who works in film. Why didn't I see it before?

We have a Polk. I don't know if it's the best one on the planet as I've never heard any others to compare it to, but it's a damned good one.

We have a Polk. I don't know if it's the best one on the planet as I've never heard any others to compare it to,…

I sort of agree about Leia, but the fact of Darth Vader being Luke's father always made perfect sense to me. Vader's name means father in German, or close to it. I think on some level Lucas always felt that Vader and Luke were father and son, and I always felt ol' Vader was maybe a little soft on Luke because of…

- you are anyone other than an exact copy of me in female form

Okay, didn't see that, sorry.

The fact that it's a joke doesn't make it any less douchey.

Yep, back in June of 1978 Captain America #222 featured the Captain being attacked by a purple Volkswagen Beetle.

Sorry, but the brain is not a Turing machine, and approaching AI from that perspective will never work. It is not our logical capabilities that make us intelligent (or at least that is only a small part of it); it is our ability to make sweeping—but often irrational—decisions based on past experiences in a relatively…

Make it happen!

Clearly fake. The designs are far too modern to date from that period . . . for starters.

Yeah, del Toro does horror with kids well, so I expect this film to be great. Still, I am trying not to overhype it in my head. But that's always a problem with del Toro's stuff. The man is just scary-good at what he does.

Oh, destroying the pleasure centers of the brain? What could go wrong? :-S

I like the web (for now), but I have to agree with him, at least to some extent. Silly liberal that I am, I have always thought that giving the average person a media forum to express themselves to a lot of other people in the way journalists and other media folk can express themselves to a lot of other people would…

Oh man, I want one! Only problem is, I couldn't flush him down the toilet when he got too big.

19 out of 22 correct, and I don't even listen to this music. :)

Okay, this is actually a side note here, but, while Lolita is an excellent novel for a lot of reasons, I would hardly call it anywhere near the best love story of the 20th century, and I don't even agree with the people here who think there was no love story there, or that such intergenerational love stories are…

Damn straight! Er, no pun intended.

Wow! That video brought tears to my eyes! One of my favorite Bradbury stories. I love that the original Al Parker-illustrated magazine version is referenced in this song—it was called "The World the Children Made" before it became "The Veldt." Thanks for sharing!