Had you said, "Hey, there's a 'Mars Attacks!' comic coming out! Like the trading cards!" I would have bought every issue.

If you reject the idea of "religious genius", then you've essentially rejected anything James has to offer. The core of James's argument is that there are human experiences that transcend the physical experience of the world- which is nonsense. Everything humans experience arises from a physical cause. In the early…

You might have that feeling, but if an ethical system is not a formal system, it can't possibly tell you how to act in a given situation. If we don't require ethical systems to be formal, then we aren't requiring a consistent system of ethics.

This article reads embarrassingly like something I might have written when I was taking philosophy courses in college, and hence makes me take an instant dislike to it. But I had enough credits to walk out as a philosophy major, so here we go:

Budget constraints: the only villain more played out than the Daleks.

Lobo on Earth. Starring a professional wrestler. Congratulations, you're remaking Suburban Commando.

"Things are worse elsewhere, so stop trying to hold us to a higher standard and be happy for what you have." - Regressionist Assholes Everywhere

At a guess, the time travel widget is of the sort where nobody can travel in time to a point earlier than the first time machine was created. The bigger issue is that a device that can displace someone in time must also be able to displace them in space- so you could just dump them into the Sun, or heck, even low…

Minor quibble: when the Daleks explain why they can't kill the Doctor, my reading of it wasn't that their hate for him was the issue- it was his hate for them. He hated them so much that the Daleks found him to be the most beautiful thing in the Universe.

I watched the first season when it was new on Hulu. That was the last time I really made much use of Hulu, and in the interim, there's one major change that irks me: the number of ads. Holy crap it's gotten crazy. And it completely breaks the flow of the show, too.

Brothels are the very definition of a "small company". Small companies can't succeed if everyone sticks to their job descriptions. So sure, her title might be "Head Accountant", but if there are tricks that need to be turned, she had better be a team player.

Well, they'll have to make a few modifications so that the show fits in with Syfy's content:

It depends on whether or not Cider/Wine alter it too much. I'm too cool for dual booting.

"Close your eyes."

Now that Darvill is free, I think we need a "The Laundry Files" TV series starring Arthur Darvill as Bob Howard.

That's fairly accurate. Tom Baker is at least partially the reason why Eccleston ran away, too. Baker basically became the Doctor. He couldn't do anything else- it was always, "It's Doctor Who as Sherlock Holmes!"

You're awesome, for that. Nothing else you did will amount to anything, but for that, and that alone- you're awesome.

It was in fact originally Mexican. And yes, I could actually see Del Toro doing a really good job turning it into a magical-realist sort of thing.

I don't see why Santa Claus needs any help to defeat Pitch. He handled the devil just fine all on his own. This is the problem with sequels, they always feel like they need to ramp up the conflict.