If the Satanic Temple is a joke, then they should really read up on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I’m pretty sure that was meant as a joke, too. Not so funny now, though, is it?

It’s … a show? Seriously, I did not know that, and I still don’t get the joke. If a joke was what they intended, they really should’ve stuck with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Seriously, again: What did I say that makes me sound ironic?

I do. Not ironically. Again seriously, why do you guys think I’m being ironic? 

I once had a — fortunately brief because aborted — argument with my douchebag of a brother-in-law over the gooier aspects of Ridley Scott’s Alien, including of course the famous chest-burster scene. I’m pretty sure he thought me a wuss because I didn’t want to see the movie on account of the gorn.

Okay, the part about “not found to be harming anyone” I can get my head around. Thanks.

I dunno, man … if I take your answers at face value, then the Satanic Temple is either (a) too twisted or (b) too cynical for me to get my head around.

I’m a Filipino, a Roman Catholic and a lifelong Star Trekker. Now I’d like to know:

Gave this some thought, and I’m inclined to … blame Barack Obama.

You know, I’ve been wondering about this for years — what would happen if I dressed up as a Nazi on Halloween, and if someone called me out on it I’d answer, “It’s traditional to dress as a monster on Halloween, I’m just trying to be original.” Well, now I guess I can stop wondering. Obviously the Nazi presses too…

Trumpoblancos? Trumpoblanquitos!

Shit — SKREEOOOONNNKKKK! (that’s Godzilla’s roar in case you can’t recognize it; fits Newt’s “laughing” face all too well)

Newt Gingrich frightens me. He scared me when I first heard of him back in the 1990s, and he scares me just as much today.

Better yet, why not Trumpublicans? They call themselves Republicans, but as far as they’re concerned Donald Trump is the Alpha and Omega, He who holds the key to the Seven Seals of the Revelation, the Blessed and Inexpressible.

And some people still wonder why so many non-Americans hate Donald Trump and his Trumpmerica.

Awww, poor baby! Mommy kicked you out of the house ‘cuz you’re just too damn weird for her? So you decided to take it out on anyone and everyone who said anything bad about your God and Messiah Donald Trump, Lord of the Flies. And you couldn’t even get that right, because none of your bombs went off!

I hear that Cesar Sayoc Jr. is a Fil-American (being the son of a Filipino father and Italian mother). That said, I’m shocked that he should be such an apparent psycho hatemongering white-supremacist asshole … and then I wonder why I’m shocked. Hitler was more German than any German despite being an Austrian, after…

Nah. The fake stuff won’t pass muster with them. (Oh, yuck.)

Well, yeah. I’ve been posting a lot lately ( well, a lot for me, on other blogs) about how political superheroes are, and to be fair the same argument can extend to the rest of science fiction -- and fantasy, and indeed literature and the arts in general. Artists are a product of their times, so we shouldn’t be…

And from what I hear, nobody in his right mind wants to meet anyone from the Warhammer 40K universe. Well, Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!), maybe ...