That wasn't so long ago to be honest. High school was only 2 years ago for me. If you are interested read one of John Green's books. I'd suggest Looking for Alaska or the above mentioned The Fault in our Stars. Might surprise you.

Ok. I apologize for my reaction. Even if the majority of YA isn't complex it is not reason enough to put down the whole genre. I don't think simple story telling happens more often in Young Adult fiction. You are kinda assuming a lot about authors and their integrity there.

Teens aren't capable of deep thought then. Good to know. I guess the time spent in school reading Shakespeare or Orwell is time down the drain. I guess I shouldn't have read Goethe, The Great Gatsby or 1984. I couldn't have understood them anyway.

She does want to star in Fathom movie adaptation. So you're not that far from your wish.

You guys do know that she wants to get a Fathom movie adaption of the ground right? So this commercial, not that surprising.

Jason your translator was pretty good.

Gotcha. Still hate that movie though.

Are you asking if "I take issue" with Antonin Scalia? Because I mentioned different people in my previous post. If so then yes. From my limited knowledge of Scalia, I know that I really, really wouldn't have liked him as a Judge anywhere near where I live. After reading the first lines from the Wikipedia article on…

Your assumption that YA is inherently inferior to other fiction is condescending to young adults. Just like any other genre there is good and there is bad. YA can deal with the same themes as any work of fiction. There are YA books that deal with death, cancer or any other subject you might consider worthwhile.

If someone mentions that stupid movie one more time I'll literally (figuratively) explode the internet.

I'm with you a 100%. I only take issue with people using the founding fathers as an argument. In the vain of: "The founding fathers wrote so and so and this is the way it has to be." I'm only saying that people shouldn't use the historical figures of Jefferson and Washington and others as a crutch for their…

Re Electoral Collage. Just watch the video for my view. Notice it was uploaded on 2011. So the talk about the previous election is about 2008. Your comment about the second amendment strikes me as fair. Thanks for the reply.

Full disclosure: I'm not American so I understand if you dismiss what I say and I always feel weird when I talk about internal US politics.

You are right about the drinking (see my reply to Tkavil) and you are right about 90% being to high and that the split is more 60-40 but it's in the other direction. You can look at the table here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews#Jewish_ethnic_divisions_in_Israel and you will see that Europe and America are…

Brandishing someone for a crime they did not commit isn't what I would call justice.

Being Arabic isn't just about language. You are right in your first comment that there are Arabs in Israel and I started a discussion on an unrelated topic because I combined your comment with the original blog post. But no matter how you look at it Israel is not an Arabic country. It has a substantial Arab minority…

Harassment is really bad but it isn't rape. Rapist is the translation of that word btw.

There are plenty of Arabs in the US as well. Doesn't make it an Arab country either. The whole idea of Israel and Zionism is centered on the notion of a state for Jews. 90% of Israeli Jews, who are 75% of the population, are either immigrants or descendants from immigrants from Europe or America. The rest is of Arabic…

Israel is most definitely not an Arab country.

The name is most definitely to foreshadow that he will figure out who Batman is. I doubt he has anything to do with the Riddler. One of the things that constitutes the make up of the Riddler is his quest to solve the ultimate riddle, Batman. Him figuring it out in 40 min goes against the whole point.