Ah yes, of course. How silly of me to forget that the fantasy elements of Doctor Who started in 2010.

Exactly. Sexuality and how it is defined is weird, mutable, and often unintelligible to those used to a different construct.

No one in Rome was "straight" because the Romans had a completely different conception of how sexuality worked. Straight/gay are meaningless terms in the context of the classical world. So arguing about what the Romans would have thought about homosexuality is deeply pointless, as is using it as a point of critique of…

Well, celestial/seasonal. Honestly though, human beings like parties and celebrations. There are going to be a ton going on at any point on the calendar, there's going to be at least a few at any given point that sync up to around the same times and may be tangentially thematically linked (esp. in regards to the…

This is one of my biggest pet peeves when people occasionally go off on how Easter is really a pagan holiday appropriated by christianity because look at the dates and the word, like that's some mic drop argument. Blerg. Except if anyone should be complaining, it's the Jews, because as you say, easter was linked to…

There's an important distinction here. But let's be honest- indoctrination at a young age happens with everything. That's the very essence of childhood. You're indoctrinated into your culture, you're indoctrinated into your politics, you're indoctrinated into a lot of different beliefs about the world without there…

Christianity isn't a cult. There may be christian cults, but let's not fall off the relativism cliff here. What makes scientology bad is pretty specific and can't be summarized as "religion bad lol bye". It's like equating paid labor with slavery.

Well, there's always the TI forum that was created a while back. http://tolerabilityindex.fr…

I did not think they could find a worse thing than disqus. PROVEN WRONG AGAIN.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Nah, he was convicted. But I think it was of a lesser charge, so maybe the allegedly is used to cover the stronger language.

I suspect it's loyalty to tax cuts.

I like horror that's mixed with humor and fun. There was a lot in the Mummy that was genuinely scary, and it definitely had the pathos with its monsters - for all that Imhotep is the bad guy, he's also a fairly tragic figure, and his actions are driven by the curse, so in one way he's still just getting the short end…

He'd have been amazing as Dr Strange

Was it in the Mummy or the Mummy Returns that there's a completely tongue in cheek line about "it is written"? I loved that bit of sly self-awareness that never tripped too far into deflating the fun.

Iron Man 2 was messy, but it was decently entertaining. I can't even remember the Hulk. It's like the Amazing Spider Man in that I know I saw it, but it's just one long bland "meh" in my memory.

Not that he counts as an A-lister, but I think I remember hearing that he was in the running to be Captain America. I can totally see it.

hahahahahahaha oh my god, Trump would actually be a great model for casting M.O.D.O.K

That is explained in the other long article about him I've seen passed around the interwebs recently, which shockingly was not the article linked here. Anyway, it was for Obama's surprise birthday party. He was part of the surprise, since Obama is a fan. And then he kind of jokingly challenged the president to an…

I honestly wish we could give people away to the other side. I would happily let the right have Michael Moore. His brand of grandstanding and obnoxiousness is so much more in line with their media personalities. All he needs is a quick change in politics.