I’m not entirely sure I understand your line of reasoning for coming to this conclusion. The inclusion and acknowledgment of gay characters is an attempt to normalize them, which is appropriate since that is a normal part of life. Gay people exist, and shielding children from that fact won’t do them any favors. I…

“Show me on the doll where the space salamander touched you.”

Shattered and burned your DVDs? Damn, now that’s what I call closure.

I feel your pain, brother. I think the space salamanders traumatized us all.

Meredith’s recaps improved the show about 1000000%. I briefly thought about ditching the show and just reading Meredith’s delightfully crazy-pants reviews, but I just don’t think that they would have had the same impact. So yes, I am not proud of it, but I watched every single episode of that bloody show (alone, as…

Well that’s... disappointing. I just started watching Lost Girl recently, and I’m currently about halfway through Season 1. I was strongly considering skipping the rest of this season and going right into Season 2, hoping that it would get past its growing pains and actually get better (writing-wise, that is. It’s the…

For a long time I have been saying that we need to stop using “racist” as a noun and use it only as an adjective. (We have, at least, come to a point as a society that we can agree that racism is bad - this is one of the few areas in which the Left has actually won something) If you call someone a racist, then they…

I used to feel that way myself, once upon a time. I detested Dubya, but I only criticized his policies and didn’t go in for personal attacks. I felt that the position of Commander in Chief deserved some respect, even if the man himself didn’t earn it. But then we got 8 years of all the vileness and crapitude…

But, strangely, they kept referring to it as “the Demogorgon” when in fact, as any D&D nerd can tell you, Demogorgon is a unique being so that is effectively his name. Calling it “the” Proper Name would be like calling someone “the Donald”, and... ohhhhh, now I get it.

I can’t decide if Discord goes on to become Q or if Q goes on to become Discord, but one way or another I am convinced they are one and the same being, simply at different stages of its life.

I thought that Into the Dalek was also a very solid episode, and nicely reinforced the menace and crazy that embodies the whole Dalek mindset (Asylum of the Daleks also helped in this endeavor, but the story itself had its issues). That leaves us with... what, two or three strong Dalek episodes out of the last ten…

I’m with you on this one. At first I was extremely disappointed that the X-Men were not part of the MCU continuity, but since Marvel didn’t have some of their most recognizable properties to rely on they had to stretch a bit (much to our advantage). If they had been able to just spit out more X-Men or Fantastic Four…

This year also took Michael Leader, the Clumsiest Stormtrooper.

It’s such a deeply stupid, embarrassing word, but it serves a purpose as a quick-and-easy identifier. Anyone who uses the word “cuck” is (probably) an alt-right douchebag, in much the same way that anyone who uses the word “sheeple” is (probably) a weak-minded conspiracy-theorist.

Well, it’s true that Trump would have won the popular vote if we ignored California and New York, no way around that. Also, Hillary would have won the electoral college if we just ignored the states where she didn’t win. This argument is a pointless exercise in futility...

Such a damn shame. As you say, the whole Flathead Valley area is beautiful. I haven’t been back to visit that (distant) branch of the family in nearly twenty years, but I treasure the ancient memories that I do have of walking around with my dog on endless country roads in the Fall.

Jesus Christ, are you serious with this? My brother lives in Kallispell! (half-brother, technically, but still) We don’t talk much, and I haven’t been out to visit him in Montana in nearly twenty years, but still... I had no idea it was like that out there. That’s fucking scary.

So... not bothering to clean my house is actually making my kids stronger? Alright, justified! Now I just have to get my mother-in-law on board with this plan...

At this point, Marvel Cinematic Universe is still representing their heroes exactly as they are in the comics (the most well-known iteration, that is). Tony Stark was a white guy with a goatee in the comics, so he is on the screen to make it easier to recognize him. Steven Strange was a white guy on the page and…

I’m not sure what you mean - are you referring to bookstores in general, or specifically to books that I took home from a feline-occupied store? Honestly, I guess it doesn’t matter either way since I’ve never noticed an allergic issue with a book. Or at least, if I did have a reaction I’m pretty good at covering it up…