A lot of martial artists IRL are wiry, because there’s basically an inverse relationship between the size of your muscles and how flexible you can get. I guess it depends on how much Iron Fist’s fighting style depends on, uh, his fists.

Either you have the kind of very large and complex assets that should make $2k no big deal, or your accountant is ripping you off . (Or, I guess, you’re paying them to do a lot of work you could do yourself, like organizing your reciepts.)

Also, for most people and your average small business, the big problems with the IRS itself (rather than the tax code) are that they don’t provide good “customer” service (extremely long phone waits, etc, probably due to lack of staff), and their computer system is wildly out of date and they can’t afford to…

Bush seems - in retrospect, and I think to a great extent even at the time - like an unsophisticated but more-or-less decent guy who was the patsy of Cheney & Rumsfeld. His administration committed war crimes, and he does bear responsibility for that because he was (supposed to be) in charge, but........

“Too ill to continue”, you say? I wonder if anyone in the RNC is seeing if they can make that happen....

Right, definitely. If you use a twitter handle or e-mail address in a game or TV show, you should make sure it’s one your company controls (I don’t think there’s any twitter or e-mail equivalent of a 555 area code), because you know that die-hard fans will check it out. Both to prevent harassment and as an opportunity…

Why would they use a twitter handle in-game that they don’t control? That seems like a bad move for a few reasons. If you register the handle and give your marketing department control of it, they can use it to tweet game-related content as a kind of viral marketing or easter egg kind of thing. If you don’t have…

No matter how you cut it, there has to be a better way than using knuckles and knuckle valleys to teach my kids how many days are in a month.

The odd thing is that Chelsea Cain has some kind of upcoming promotional event for the series listed on the homepage of her website - after the final issue comes out. Which makes me wonder if/hope that the series will be back later. Marvel’s done that kind of thing a number of times lately.

There have been some LGBT supporting characters and themes in various books (Zoe coming out in Ms Marvel, the lesbian Dora Milaje couple in Black Panther, etc), but yeah, in terms of lead characters, not so much.

She’s really popular for a character who’s so far only been a supporting character in a few series, for whatever that’s worth. She gets a lot of attention online - which at very least will get them some free press and immediate interest in the series. I mean, look at this article - we don’t know who’s writing it,…

She sometimes goes by Ms. America as her superhero name.

I think possibly two? At least one of which involved an awful lot of T&A for a series about a girl who’s in like 9th grade.

Young Avengers is supposed to be a young adult property - so teenage geeks on Tumblr, or their 10-years-ago equivalent (Livejournal users, maybe?) in the case of the original series, is going to be a really big part of the target market. Gillan/McKelvie clearly understood that and created the series in a way that…

Yeah, it looks like they’re quietly cancelling it, or at least putting it on hiatus. They’ve got one more issue announced and that’s it. :(

Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. You can be sexually exploited or abused as a minor, and later go on to be a white-collar professional with a college degree. I know a number of women in that situation. As far as I know, they’re not writing blog articles justifying the “choice” young girls make in some countries…

I suspect that’s not so much “unhinged” as a psychological coping mechanism. My hunch is that that person was also a victim of child sex trafficking and, as a coping mechanism, has convinced themself that *they* had the agency at age 13 to choose sex work, that it was their choice. And then is projecting that on…

The bit you quoted says 16, not dozens. So if his figures are true, we’re talking about 10 people changing jobs.

According to the article, the number of female execs rose 24%, not 400%. I have a feeling his statements will turn out to be somewhat, ah, hyperbolic.

The funny thing is that were overexposed in some ways and underexposed in others. For example, how many people in the US are aware that the biggest underlying cause of the Syrian conflict, and a big factor in the rise of Boko Haram and the (former) military success of ISIS is drought and the ability/inability of…