“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”

How about this:

4. What is best unsaid.

Sepp Blatter’s not looking for the cure
Sepp Blatter’s not concerned about the sick among the pure.
Sepp Blatter, let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
Sepp Blatter’s not one to choose

Any Dr. Seuss book.

Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book. Don’t believe me? Sit back, close your eyes, and relax while I recite the entire book from memory. *AH HEM*

I don’t know what to tell you, it is arguably one of the best if the not the best action of the last 15 years. That’s got to count for something. It also handles it’s themes and characterization with a subtle, and more importantly visual hand. I think that’s worth a few points. Speaking of visuals, it’s easily one of…

yeah, people shouldn’t pooh-pooh Babe, because it’s not just a kids movie, it’s one of the best kids movies ever.

Plus who hires a lead actress, in an action movie, that is older then 30?

Rob, Miller was given the rights to Mad Max and Road Warrior by Warner Bros. as part of the deal to drop Justice League. They had no choice but to use Miller since he owned the rights to the character, world, etc. And considering how much money Miller has pulled in for WB with those animated ‘kids’ movies, he still…

I don’t think Max was a sidekick in his own movie. He was more of the, ahem, vehicle through which we witnessed Furiosa’s journey. Which is in line with previous Mad Max films (excluding maybe the first one).

Yes. Yes you are.

Some of my lit students were telling celebrity stories recently, and I happily talked about the time I met Junot Diaz.

Being a non grey commenter on a gawker site?

I’m going to continue to not watch this show.

I’ve never been into the show. To me, it always reminded me of when every comic book decided to go “grim and gritty” in the 90s. One most juvenile things to believe is that constant senseless hopelessness and violence are somehow inherently mature. It’s a 13 year old boy’s vision of what adult art should be like.

Thank you: “The problem isn’t that this episode included a rape, but that it did so in the service of bad storytelling. It told the audience nothing that wasn’t already known, and it didn’t advance any plot lines beyond where they already were.”

Sherman Alexie is a mensch. My dad (seventy-something years old) just discovered his work and is madly in love with it. So when Alexie did a signing last year at my local indie bookstore, I got him to sign a copy of his new short story collection. I explained it was for my dad who was going through his “Alexie phase”:…

Bill Clinton is as devastatingly charming in person as he appears on TV. That’s all I got.

One time I was flying from JFK to SFO, with a layover in Phoenix and saw Flavor Flav waiting at our gate. We went over and talked to him, he showed us the bag of clocks he keeps in Target bags with the rest of his Target bag luggage, and took a photo with us. He sat behind us on the plane (in coach) and yelled…