There was absolutely no mention nor hint that Killmonger was an “undisciplined, gangsta rapper.” The movie paints him as a man driven by his father’s murder to excel and reclaim his birthright. You are repainting it to fit the narrow stereotypes in your mindset.

Wakandans lived in the lap of luxury for centuries while their neighbors wallowed in squalor and violence. 

What do you mean it didn’t work? The explicit purpose of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, according to the people who wrote it and passed, was to prevent mass shootings. In 1989, a man armed with an assault rifle, a variant of the AK-47 with large magazines, killed five children and injured 29 more in a school in…

When we first met T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and T’Chaka (John Kani) in Captain America: Civil War, it was clear that Boseman made the decision to base the cadence of his Wakandan accent on Kani’s Xhosa accent.

The whole “enforce the laws already on the books” argument is a red herring, and the people who use it know it.

How about the reporting law or check ups by the FBI. They dropped the ball on this shooting.

Many of the strident ones are howling for a ban, sure, but let’s get real, that isn’t going to happen, and that isn’t realistic anyway.

I thought the problem was the exact opposite. The ban identified specific mechanical features and not the concept. Seems to me there should be a ban on any weapon that meets 2 of these 4 criteria: 1) shoots > x projectiles/minute, or 2) has a range of y meters, or 3) takes a certain caliber or greater projectile, or…

Yes, most modern hunting rifles (that I’ve seen; I haven’t seen them all, obviously) are semi-automatic rifles. So we’re on the same page here, bolt action and lever action wouldn’t have any restrictions that don’t already exist, but anything else would—and when I say “restrictions” I mean pre-purchase and…

What laws? Gun owners talk about these laws not being enforced, but nobody can say specifically what they are. What laws?

Ghost guns are already a loophole to any sort of engineering based phrasing of a law. Semi-automatic does not apply to them because it is not a finished functioning gun yet, it is a paperweight when it arrives and requires milling at home to make it function. Best first step IMO to this issue is making it as hard to…

As a gun owner I don’t support an ‘assault rifle’ ban for pretty much the reasons noted above. The term assault rifle is kind of an arbitrary category and we know what owners and manufacturers will do: Find the loopholes, changes just enough to get past the law, put a new model number on it, and move on. You will…

Yes, the assault weapons ban was ridiculous because you’re trying to ban a concept, not a description of a mechanical function. Of course it didn’t work. It’s like a war on drugs or terrorism; you can’t “battle” a nebulous concept.

DAMMIT! I’ve been making this joke around here for a year or two now since I live just south of Wauconda and drive through it on my way to work* every day and I get no credit whatsoever.

I always thought ‘Quantum Search’ or such would make for a great follow up series - but I’d make it a whole team searching for Sam, and coming back to base most weeks, so it’s not just more of the same (love it though I did). I like your idea of introducing another daughter conceived during ‘The Leap Back’, along with…

Quantum Leap was probably my favorite show while it was on, and it’s probably my second favorite time travel TV show. And the ending, with that title card, was both sweet and infuriating, and I wanted more. And I’ve mentioned it before... but I actually wrote an outline for a continuation of the show. This is actually…

Bellisario dismissed the possibility of Sam changing history such that he and Al would never meet by basically saying that such perfect friends would find each other, regardless of the timeline. (Which actually fits rather well into his notion that you really should never look into how things in QL work too closely.…

Yeah, I wonder how many of the jabronis who comment have ever been in a competition halfpipe. They’re basically ice, the walls are vertical and about 18’ high. I’ve snowboarded since ‘91 and those things scare the hell out of me. Also, there’s a reason ski areas don’t build the damn things, they’re death traps.

A gold medal is a gold medal, but having announcers explain what the Swaney Statute is every two years, in sport after sport, is priceless.

I’d like to see you try and qualify for Women’s Freestyle Skiing, Patrick.