The Rocketeer forgot his rocket. Kinda jumped out at me.

No, I’m afraid this doesn’t qualify yet as Trump’s Reichstag fire. For that to happen he’d have to find some excuse to completely shut Congress down. A simple border incident won’t cut it, IMHO.

Such holier-than-thou “Christians” are one big reason Jesus wears a crown of thorns.

Not how it works at all. Very clearly THEY DIDN’T WANT HIM THERE, SO HE SHOULD HAVE JUST STAYED AWAY. Jesus Himself even warns His first disciples of this in the New Testament -- if they’re obviously not welcome in a place, they’re to shake the dust of it from their sandals and go on their way. Only if they’re made…

Okay, two points:

Now I might get all defensive and start defending the Church’s many, many good and effective outreach programs around the world … but I won’t. I did say I was “supposed to” support these activities, right? But for one thing, there’s all the bad stuff resulting from overzealous proselytizing that you just mentioned.…

This is where I trot out some of my favorite stories, like the one about the Princeton freshman who told off this old geezer for dressing like a hobo on Princeton’s sacred grounds — only to learn that said old geezer was ALBERT EINSTEIN. Besides the lessons about always being polite and never judging a book by its…

I’ve commented on this elsewhere, so here’s the potted version: The Church frowns on activities like this, which are too much like fulfilling a death wish with a rather complicated suicide attempt. There are ways to proselytize among people like the Sentinelese which this chowderhead obviously wasn’t aware of, which…

As a Roman Catholic who’s supposed to support the Church’s missionary activities across the world … I absolutely agree with you.

As a Roman Catholic who’s supposed to support the Church’s missionary activities across the world … I have to agree with you. Not good to speak ill of the dead, but Mr. Chau strikes me as the kind of person who’d otherwise be earnestly trying to Christianize people who are ALREADY CHRISTIANS, thank you very much …

Just finished reading about Andrew Johnson, the Veep who took over after Lincoln got shot. Now there was a prize douchebag. Who’s worse, though -- him or Trump?

This just in: The fellow who yelled “Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!” at the Hippodrome claims he just wanted to make a comment about how the musical was reminding him of Trump’s immigration policies. Uh’huh. If he’s to be believed, this is a case of the guy’s mouth (and arm -- he made a Nazi salute as he yelled) getting…

To put things perhaps too simply: Alan Moore loves Superman. Frank Miller hates Superman. Zack Snyder’s brand of moviemaking better suits Miller’s work than Moore’s. Is Zack Snyder the right man to entrust with Superman’s cinematic future?

Okay, first the Trumpublicans lose control of Congress thanks largely to Trump. Then Trump blows his chance to attend a once-only-ever celebration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, basically because he didn’t wanna. Now Trump messes up his presentation of his own messed-up list of Medal of Freedom…

I’m sure many people on tis thread have picked up on this, but just to clarify … this douchebag first yelled “Heil Hitler!” Then he yelled “Heil Trump!”

I’m sure I speak for millions of people in America and out of it when I ask … just who the hell are these people and where the hell did they come from? (And who the hell watches them?)

Basically, this Netflix thing is going for the same vibe as a serious Mobile Suit Gundam story.

Well, I watched the preview … and I dunno about “manufactured-feeling whimsy,” but it definitely feels kind of forced to me. I suppose this is a pet project of Burton’s that finally saw the light? I mean, even Spielberg had a pet project (1941) that didn’t exactly pan out the way he hoped -- and I have a sinking…

He must have! Of all the Super-pets of the Silver Age it’s only Krypto who’s ever brought back from limbo. (BTW, what breed is Krypto? Looks to be some kind of Jack Russell mix … )

As I’ve said before someplace else -- it must drive Trumpublicans mad that superheroes like Cap have been teaching kids and young adults the backwards of the Trumpublic’s values for more than three generations … thank God.