And to those who would say he never made money off of the character, a person owns a copyright on such a work from the moment of its creation.

(Though Ms. Davis, I don't want to just be a negative nancy! Your use of "irony" may have been odd, but the article as a whole was pretty dang interesting!)

That still does not make Tesla's beliefs "ironic." He held a belief about eugenics. In his own life, he acted in a way that was not hypocritical. Other men might have acted differently.

Here's the subtle distinction: V in the book was not a hero. He was a destructive force that one does not wish to emulate. Anarchy is not better than Fascism, they are evils that have the power to cancel each other out. Evey, as she becomes the hero that isn't destructive, that can rebuild, ends up being the one the…

Anyone who wants to read this should pick up Montague Summers' The Vampire: His Kith and Kin.

Most deserving of a Plus 1.

that would be an acceptable analysis of religion 100-200 years ago, but the idea that mythologies only have 1. explanatory value for the scientifically ignorant and 2. ethical value for the weak, is itself a fairly uneducated one today.

even aside from the conflation here of sex and gender, I'm pretty sure the above poster would inform you that, regardless of the physical state of the embryo, he or she would define it male if it's genetic code featured a y chromosome.

Since the middle ages the Catholic Church has allowed for the possibility of "delayed ensoulment," the idea that no human being can know exactly when a fetus has been imbued with a human soul. If you read modern encyclicals, that possibility is still there.

One typically sympathizes with the hero of a tragedy while still recognizing his flaws, and the destruction that those flaws bring about.

It's not that it doesn't matter to him- it's that he has total disdain for trying to change the world the way Penny does, that is, slowly, rather than burning it all down and rebuilding.

According to Wikipedia Hastur is invoked at one point.

the "whiteface" means this film exists in a different artistic context, one in which actors across various races in real life end up assuming numerous racial roles in the film. This implies that, where you see white actors playing minorities, it is not whitewashing, it is not continuing the tradition of minstrel…

Stargate?

Is anyone reading this as anything other than hilarious trolling?

....I don't know why my enthusiasm was expressed in the voice of a surfer from the 90s. My apologies.

Dude, this sounds radically unique in comparison to CS Lewis' trilogy- an ecumenical council to deal with an unfallen species sounds freaking interesting. I am jealous of your brain, and hope to read it in print some day!

"What he learned was pretty damn terrifying."

My submission to that contest JK Rowling's editor was running has since morphed into an alt-future epistolary novel; I chose it for the structure that my plot desperately needed, but it sparked a lot of thinking as to how to make it actually plausible. In the end, I think the technology is almost here to allow for it…

Wholeheartedly agreed. This article was fantastic.