I stopped watching YJ halfway through season 2 and I should go back and finish it. With that caveat, I really have to disagree with you on the quality of Season 1 of YJ. As an organization, the Light loved to use idiot balls to the point that I never could consider them to be a real threat. The finale in which a whole…

I will take a movie about Han and Gisele. Please and thank you.

Have you seen the Machinima short with Brainiac called 'Bomb'? I think it does more to flesh out new Superman than the movie does.

The only piece of dialogue out of Cat Grant's mouth that I enjoyed was how the ability to write never leaves you, like riding a bike or childhood trauma. She might be a better character if she was a lot funnier like Wilhemina from Ugly Betty. It would scuttle any possibility of her character looking competent but its…

Well feel free to rally around Brianna Wu and Felicia Day. Brianna Wu received death threats after mocking Gamergate on Twitter. Felicia Day was doxxed after writing an article about how Gamergate made her feel uncomfortable to express her opinions online. By all accounts, both people are very sweet, non-abusive…

Sandler's List said "Yeah, that's fine …" to affirm your position.
Thomas Cromwell said "No-one says it's wrong to call out corruption. If the corruption was legitimate, I've no doubt Quinn herself would say it was okay to call it out."

See, I dispute that any of the responses had a condescending tone. Your original questions were of a tentative nature as well as sparse of detail that I can understand them evoking a desire in others to gently educate and help you understand, especially given the huge amount of misinformation that exists on the topic.…

Okay. Seems to me like those responses don't live in that binary either so you're in good company.

I don't think Jack Strop or any of the other responders were being condescending. All their responses seemed quite neutral and were trying to point out how you can avoid the pitfalls you're afraid of falling into.

For my part, I like a redemption narrative where the person is completely honest about her wrongs, is remorseful for it and then successfully moves past it without trying to justify that bullshit. I do think that recovering from being an addict and an asshole is something to be proud of. Is it like giving brownie…

I'm a little worried to write this because the blogger is obsessive, wordy, easy to anger and is currently trying to do a crowd-funded hike so I don't want to end up in her sights. I skimmed her blog a few months ago and her 3 main complaints with Wild seemed to be:

"I Don’t Support Feminism If It Means Murdering All Men" by the Onion.

Follow The Rabbit-Proof Fence isn't a hiking book but it's the only one I've come across where non-white girls make a long journey. It's a true account of three Australian Aboriginal girls who were taken from their families by the racist government of that time and had to find their way home.

I loved the book but I found myself liking, not loving, the movie even though on the whole, it was probably the best adaptation that could be made of the book. Brie Larson, Joan Allen and Jacob Tremblay all give wonderful performances that I think are shortchanged by the movie having to compress so much of their…

I'm torn too. The only way I think it will work as not an unfortunate commentary on the trans movement is if it went off the deep end into Oldboy-style psychotic sexual revenge territory.

"After Giuliani became mayor, in 1994, his police commissioner William Bratton prioritized a strategy of “order maintenance” in city policing. As executed by Bratton, this strategy relied on a policy of stop-and-frisk, whereby police officers could stop pedestrians on vague premises such as “furtive movements” and…

"Data are from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). Ordinary least-squares regression was used for the model, which included gender (male, female), age, race (white, nonwhite), marital status (married, divorced or widowed, never married), children at home (yes, no), foreign education (yes, no),…

Well, the graph of the Nurse Anesthetist field that's included with the article shows that the gap is $17,290 in favor of males. In fact, it's the largest wage gap in the graph. If as you say the Nurse Anesthetists are 50/50 male to female, that's a staggering difference between what males and females are getting paid.

Probably because male nurses are actually being paid better than female nurses. It's one of the things that really bothers my relative, who is himself a male nurse.

I'd say Spartacus is well worth watching with one of the most satisfying finales I've seen. For Blood and Sand (the first season), you could skip to episode 5. Or you could start with Gods of The Arena (the prequel season) which is solid all the way through and that might help you build tolerance for the first part of…