McKiernan actually wrote is first novel (The Silver Call) as a sequel to LOTR, in which Dwarves attempt to retake Moria. Doubleday tried to get rights from Tolkien's estate, but failed. So McKiernan wrote a prequel to his sequel (The Iron Tower) that was the most obvious LOTR rip-off ever, basically because that's…

Fair point, but I think the context contradicts it. That interpretation would mean that the author thinks that the element that is gimmicky is the content of the parentheses, rather than the actual use of parentheses. But the content of the parentheses is "500" - if there's a gimmick there, it's as obscure as fuck.

You've got your plural and singular mixed up.

"(500) Days Of Summer is a gimmicky movie in a lot of ways, starting with the parenthesis in its title"

Except that has never been Maher's position. He opposed the Iraq war from the start, for example. He seems to be more interested in criticizing the religion than in calling for any sort of action against muslims.

The Tehran subway has cars just for women for this reason, but women are allowed to ride in the other cars as well.

Yeah, but Deflategate was a load of horse crap, scientifically speaking.

If you think Berniecrats aren't numerous enough to "push the needle", you don't get to blame them for the results of this election.

While the GOP is truly terrible, you give the Democratic party a bit too much credit. They did NOT want everyone to vote in the primary.

Lori Mattix.

Gravity, sure (though nowhere near earth-like). Magnetic poles? Nope, unless the reactor core somehow creates a magnetic field. Magnetic activity requires a liquid metal core, as it is the motion of the metal in relation to the body itself which generates the field.

He was a reporter in a scene where Dave Foley is starting to get out of control, as I recall. I haven't watched it in a long time.

God, I'm getting old. The years are running together. And I should have known better - a friend of mine had a bit part in Monkeybone.

She did Jackie Brown.

Shit, that's not even the best PJ song on the Singles soundtrack. "Breath" is waaaay better.

No candidate is ever going to be the answer to all of our problems, so demanding that from Bernie (or Clinton, or anyone else) is a ridiculous threshold. That said, Bernie had one gigantic advantage over Clinton: he would have won against Trump.

Cleaning crew working behind everyone…

But at least that made sense - they were celebrating the liberation of their homeworld, not everyone was dancing, and those who were weren't making highly choreographed moves.

Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!

"Wait, so letting your kid listen to the Wiggles is the equivalent of letting them eat Styrofoam?"