Brupsky?

I can't get past the mental image of Darth Vader with a throbbing droid between his legs.

Breaking Dawn: Part 2: The Afterbirth

...assembling a group of burly friends and family members to assault the coming nobleman

Remember when TLC stood for "The Learning Channel" instead of "The Lowest Common (denominator)"?

A world more fantastic than Target? Bite your tongue!

But it's oddly soothing if you hear it in the voice of Morgan Freeman.

Well if we could turn off all the electricity in the entire world and in NEO, yes.

Has Kate Beckett ever punched anyone? Shot, yes. Definitely shot. But I'm not recalling any punching.

The Reason Early Humans May Have Practiced Infant Cannibalism

You know that shit the internet lost over this ad? The internet would go back out, find that shit and start throwing it.

There is a flaw in your thesis.

He was the battalion medic under General Mills during the Civil War, wasn't he?

Wasn't there a rumor that "stoned as hell" is the default state of Woody Harrelson?

I would much prefer that the Independence Day sequels be titled Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Tell the stories of rebuilding civilization after the fallout of the invasion (literal and metaphorical) and what happens when we come out the other side of that. Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide showed that sequels don't…

I came to the conclusion that I'm basically Buddhist years ago after reading The Tao of Pooh but I just can't bring myself to buy into the whole re-incarnation thing. Maybe if I was more ambitious I could found a new sect of "Western Buddhism" that that teaches the philosophy without the meta-physics?

I would say that the large prison population clearly shows that the threat of torment on earth isn't enough for a lot of people.

I think we're arguing the same side of this point. Charlie Jane (I think) and I are of the opinion that most self-help books don't extend beyond one's own particular bag of meat*. If they did I agree with you that this would be a happier world.

I think you may have hit another nail on the head there, Charlie Jane. We're a nation of "self-helpers" but most of the advice is how to get yours and get ahead. Which doesn't lead to optimism or happiness, it leads to looking out for oneself and paranoia towards those that would take it from you.

S0 your solution is open colonialism? I don't think that would end well in a world with air travel and ICBMs. Not that it ever ended well to begin with.