Hmm, the difference between the two is pretty fine, but I think that addiction is more accurate when describing something that causes harm, whereas compulsion is usually related to benign repeated rituals (such as turning lights on/off). When the behavior gets to the point where you know it is harmful, but you cannot…

While I might agree that physical symptoms are a significant hurdle to overcome when it comes to addiction, there's a lot of science around the psychology of addiction. I don't think that people who are sobbing because they can't stop themselves from doing something are just using an excuse.

Point taken. Burn the rights. Let Marvel have it.

Speaking of Doom, if Fox has the rights to him, why not just make a Doom-exclusive movie. Ignore the FF, nobody likes them anyway. Just a feature-length origin story about the science wizard genius villain.

Nonlethal Weapon 8

I thought it was one of the best clip-show episodes on TV on May 14th, 1998.

Read that as "I have GoT to get famous" and proceeded to be confused about your future plans with the show.

The smaller artists who would have not been paid royalties for their music (i.e. the ones Swift is fighting for) would have signed a contract too. It is the larger business (or businesswoman) exercising control over the smaller people that seems objectionable. The idea of "do this work and you might get paid" is a…

"I just don't get metaphors. It's like, why be so obtuse?"
-Stannis's last thoughts, probably.

The Gayes sue the gays

it's all a bunch of seamen to me