Well, they're both taking a process where solo auteurs are generally preferred by critics, and using assembly-line techniques to turn it into a "product, a commodity for mass consumption." If you're "not sure that that's a trend worth celebrating", it's as true of Barry Gordy's charm school graduates as it is Marvel…

I'd say it's more like music geeks recognizing the quality of music produced by 60/70s era Motown. It is possible for something to be made by committee, widely popular, *and* done well.

My brother and I were almost named Devlin and Vaclav after our mother's Irish and father's Czech ancestors'. But in each case they were talked into a more conventional name by the other parent.

"There's a kind of uniform slickness to them that ensures that as few people as possible will miss any of the lovingly-crafted CGI details that go into them."

So much this. Even better that he seizes on "dimension without time" from Dormammu's ominous description as his weakness.

Difference is that Bucky turns on Cap as a result of brainwashing, but Mordo turns on Strange as a result of beliefs he's had since long before we met him. First Avenger just had to show childhood friends, Strange had to do that while also showing what would drive them apart. (FWIW, I think Doctor Strange managed…

It's a man-made cultivar. Don't lay this at God's feet.

Tom's contract is rewritten every few years so he'll get paid a bunch of money after he retires. That day just keeps retreating further into the future…

They certainly don't owe any explanation, but little slights like this mean way more to Hair Furor than they ever did to Obama. (Or any other POTUS, honestly.) Spelling it out may be the only way he gets the message.

Preach. You have to drop the "scrappy underdog" schtick some time around the third championship. And as much as I hate the Yankees, I have to acknowledge that what they do takes money *and* skill - if money alone brought championships, the Dodgers and Cubs would have won a lot more World Series.

And he was from South Central LA to boot.

"This point" being "since 2008". If not 1980.

I don't see Darth Bannon letting this get off the runway.

Fundraiser name ideas
"No Spoon Long Enough"
"Cheeto Allergy Awareness"
"If Even *He* Would Give Us Money…"

What boggles my mind is that the Patriots have become the Yankees of the NFL, and the Boston fanbase *cannot* wrap their minds around this obvious truth.

…mostly ends.

Problem is that Republican will be *the one* who tanked a nomination. And it *will* end their career. When voting for legislative seats, you're voting for a party - the person in the seat only matters insofar as how well they can advocate/politick, and possibly how willing they'd be to end their career on principle.

Yeah, but I've been around enough "G for Jesus" people to know that the folks holding (real) Packers stock skew as far right as the batch of CEOs who own the rest of the league.

Gotta love how the same piece of clothing signifies a young black man is a violent threat, but a middle-aged white guy is just a slob.

Hey, that *does* sound like something Belichick would make his players do.