I don't get it either.  The guy was on top for like 20 years.  Most people given that level of money and power for that much time would turn into Caligula.  But the worst you can really say about Cruise is that he was mean to Brooke Shields once, yelled at Matt Lauer once, over-exuberantly jumped on a couch once, and…

Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

I guess that's the answer.  But the Bible seems almost impossible to follow without picking and choosing.  (Multiple authors, written over huge span of time, style ranging from specific pronouncements to parables, etc.)  It's not presented as a coherent, rational system.  Whereas Rand lays out her premises and…

What did you think of the movie's casting?  I haven't seen it, but based on the pictures, casting seems like the most obvious way to criticize the movie without attacking the underlying philosophy.

Does the movie deal with atheism at all?

Chait really is excellent, and the slowdown in his writing sucks.  He's openly partisan, but intellectually honest, and his take-downs are always entertaining and richly deserved — because they typically attack other pundits' hackery and lack of intellectual honesty.

Those blank books looked pretty cool at the time, but now it kind of seems like Wes sold out for a kindle.

Just doing this in my head (which could be inaccurate), I'm pretty sure they have the same 1-2-3-7 pattern but that Angel has a high 7 and then descends down the scale.  Like:

Yeah, Sopranos is so overplayed it's hard to hear anymore, but sometimes it still breaks through.  The menacing bass line and that swelling organ (huh huh) that you don't really notice until it drops out.

Hey, you're right.  I think.  In Angel, the 4th note goes up instead of down, but it's the same note an octave apart.

First I was going to suggest that Sephiroth lighten up.  Then I figured Seph's "jaw droppingly" was meant to be funny.  Now I just don't know what to believe.  It's like Rashomon.  Can anyone recommend a good film critic's review of that movie?

In addition to featuring copious amounts of Mountain Dew, the remake should also star the Dell Dude and the Burger King douchebag (Dan Cortese).  They must be old now, but that would just lend extra gravitas.

Yeah, it seems like what's really being remade here is an early-90s Mountain Dew commercial.

"The Yankees would, of course, go on to win the World Series in 1996, probably all thanks to George."