The idea is fine. Bear in mind that Batman has been goaded into this against his better nature and is (well, used to be) against killing, generally. So a sudden affirmation of Superman’s humanness, while they are close up and looking each other in the eye... I don’t think it’s that odd that he takes pause.

I know that’s the joke, but doing things for people you love - simple things, like making a snack - is one of those irreplaceable indicia of affection that is absolutely essential to making a person actually feel loved. You may as well outsource hugs to one of the housekeepers.

I think there are a lot of very humanizing answers Melania could have given. She did not give one.

It’s just so tiring to have so many bad faith arguments when simply discussing things. You can’t even mention “oh I wish there were more queer people” without getting “games AREN’T about SEX” or “MAKE UR OWN OR STFU” or “WhY dO YoU NeED EVERYTHING TO Be GaY?!?!?!?”, and that’s gotta have an impact on the…

Here’s the thing: A “stab in the back” narrative is one of the best responses to any potentially damaging leak like this. If a DNC employee had stolen the emails, the DNC would have been ecstatic, because they could drag that SOB for months. They could make the entire story about his betrayal. They could crater his…

Easy answer: a guy like Trump hires people who think like him.

I think what you’re seeing here undercuts the argument that this could all disappear the instant you legalize prostitution. It might help. But it wouldn’t eliminate places like the Orchids of Asia.

I was actually pretty impressed with the Chicago PD’s response to the Smollett case. At least for all appearances, Smollett’s accusations were assumed to be sincere at first blush and Smollett was treated as a victim.

I’ve read about 20 of Heinlein’s novels, and I feel like the only aspect of Starship Troopers Heinlein regrets is that he didn’t have his main character try and fuck his own mother. A theme that is repeated in a surprising number of his other works.

To be practical here, false paperwork is also just the easiest thing to verify or refute. If you file a sworn affidavit, you’re making a binding statement attesting that the things you say happened in the affidavit actually happened. Proving a lie is often as simple as proving that it didn’t happen. This isn’t an…

Well if course it’s a trope, because that’s the point. Specifically, it’s the trope you get when your want to write better women, but don’t want (or know how) to change the traditional stories to make women real characters. If you fleshed them out better, they wouldn’t be Strong Female Characters (TM).

There is something that gets lost in this debate: Not every mile of border fence has the same cost/benefit. And if there’s even a grain of truth to what Douchenozzle is saying, it goes to that point.

Everyone wants “strong” to mean complex and dynamic, that don’t make it so. The problem is that writers often try to fit “strong” female characters into stories that are otherwise written as traditional male-centered power-fantasies.

I have witnessed more creepy shenanigans at upscale lounge bars than creepy dive bars. And that’s not necessarily a comment that one has more than the other. Rather, I think it’s just easier to see creeptastic behavior in the roomier, quieter environment. I’d still support the null hypothesis that the level of…

In a similar vein, other establishments around the country have introduced “angel shots,” drinks that people can order as a signal to bartenders that they’re in trouble.

Not so hot take: GOOD! This is one part of the Republican tax law I’m happy got passed, and I hope it stays.

My hope for the ending is that the last scene focuses on a character who dies and then . . . just doesn’t come back. And then it ends.

It always bothered me to see Yoda fighting like a little ninja monkey. It was a betrayal of the character. The point of Yoda was that he wasn’t some great warrior. We assumed, incorrectly, that the greatest instructor of Jedi knights must himself be some barrel chested titan of a man who could slay whole armies with a…

They hang a lampshade on that one at the beginning of Season 3 when Chidi-on-Earth explains that he has native-fluency in English, and that’s his real accent. So all of the human-humans in Season 1 all kept their English/American accents when their speaking was perceived as being English, even if Chidi was actually spe…

I thought that he specifically says that he wasn’t there to get rid of the old rules. It was Paul who started stripping away the rules, to make Christianity an easier sell to the Europeans. Paul was also the one to mention homosexuality in the New Testament.