Nope. Iran, more than most of the other countries in the region, is a forwards nation hijacked by a backwards regime.

This would have been considerably too advanced for my undergrad university. They would have gotten derailed on the first day with a four-hour semiotics debate on the social coding of 'left-hand requirements' and staged a full political protest the first time the instructor suggesting washing their dreadlocks at least…

Wouldn't Baron Munchhausen be a better superhero progenitor than the Scarlet Pimpernel?

Shortness, it will be awful, you will break like bone china for the first few months afterwards, and then you will be so, so much stronger than you ever thought you would be. Seriously. Trust me on this. Night and day. Orders of magnitude you can't even visualize now.

Wow. This was a case of deja vu I was not expecting tonight.

I do remember seeing her in X-Men: First Class and thinking, "How does she get to be the only girl in Hollywood allowed to eat?"

Oh for Pete's sake.

Actually, no, she has an excellent point. There is a large target audience for dark, narratively complex genre literature that includes both genders - every single puff piece in a national newspaper's entertainment section that purports shock that women *like* aliens or dragons proves that. But for many women,…

Her makeup queen can REALLY lay off the contouring.

This is one of the two largest problems I have with Skyrim. The other is I really, really wish I could rearrange my inventory.

Is there a reason Lara Croft isn't classified as adventure? It's hard to imagine Lara Croft being left out while Indiana Jones is left in...and equally hard to imagine that one of her games didn't exceed in quality such sterling fare as Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist.

Love and Monsters stood unmolested atop my personal pedestal for Worst Doctor Who episode of All Time, until Let's Kill Hitler happened.

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