I remember Bill Maher went for coffee with Ann Coulter and remarked after that it was "the most fun I've ever had on a date after which we didn't have sex." I found it kind of sweet at the time. Now, kind of sad.

Hear, hear. I get that it's proper, but it just looks wrong, and once you know the rules, you can break them.

I remember watching the Comedy Central roast with Ann Coulter on the deis (sp?), and felt bad for someone out of her element not knowing what she was getting into.

I only recently learned that airlines deliberately over-book flights to guarantee full seats. Fuck them.

I like Vin Diesel (as a guy, at least), but xXX ranks to me as one where I agree with Roger Ebert's snarky assessments. Between the opening scene where he steals a car to rant about how videogames don't inspire crime or violence (I agree with that, but that's just idiotic) to the blatant "Oh, James" Bond movie ending,…

Seconded.

It's unfortunate that The Dark Knight has gained this sort of weird notoriety as being some MRA 'bro' movie. I get the novelty of people not liking it for good enough reasons, but that novelty stems from it being so critically acclaimed. It's okay not to like it, but it's obviously okay as well to view it as one of…

To each their own. I like Tom Hanks, but wouldn't disparage you for disliking him. He's the 'playing himself' guy, like Denzel Washington, Will Smith, etc. Nothing wrong with that, you just have to like the actor.

Not disagreeing at all, just not familiar with half of who you mentioned.

Eh. Naw. Filtering half-century-old media through a judgmental modern lens is at least a touch redundant and pretentious. It's less controversial for Thomas Jefferson to have owned slaves than say, Rahm Emanuel. That would be a bigger deal.

I think what he meant is that it's a fool's errand to doff one's cap by judging 50-year-old media with present-day values.

I thought Sandman's origin scene was very cinematically inspired, if you can forget that the area he climbed in was secured by a chain-link fence we'd climb as little kids.

Not judging, but may I ask why?

I hear you, but I do have to agree with the side that this story - silly or not - is incomplete without acknowledging that she actually did shake his hand immediately afterward. It sort of reminds me of when people attributed George W. Bush with saying, "The French have no word for entrepreneur." He never actually…

I would so be so embarrassed if .. I was that boy's mother.

Said with love.

Isn't it the opposite? One of the random trivial nuggets I have stored in my brain is that facing outside is the 'proper' way.

"Superman's Dead"

Hell, even with the wild card and expanded format it's difficult. Prior to their back-to-back ALCS appearances, the Jays had the record for longest playoff drought of major league sports teams. That now (I believe) belongs to the Buffalo Bills.

I took it more as natural predators constantly adapting to new environments.