Is it technically “genocide” if your victims are randomly determined? I thought it was defined as the murder of a selected group, defined in terms of race or religion, or whatever. I think he just comes down to “mass-murderous lunatic”.

A good start?

I recall from the Ken Burns Civil War series that people didn’t know the extra verses even 150 years ago — A quote from Mary Chesnut has her lamenting at a flag raising ceremony (I believe after the recovery of Fort Sumter) that the extra verses went on, and on, with nobody knowing them to sing along.

As I noted above, being voiced by the same guy who did the voice of J. Jonah Jameson in the late ‘60s Spider-Man cartoons, really drove home the dickishness.

Reindeer Coach was pretty assholish too. Compounded by the fact that he had J. Jonah Jameson’s voice.

I largely agree, though I was actually impressed that they came up with a relatively elaborate plot (Speed confronts the soulless corporate interests that have taken over racing).

One of the first bits of “TV continuity” that I recall, particularly in a comedy, was that after the episode where Laverne had a heart-to-heart talk with Lenny, and gave him one of her “L”s to fix his “One Wolf” jacket, subsequent episodes had him wearing it with the “L”.

All depressingly true.

All quite true, as John Wharton at least somewhat understood, but I don’t believe any protection was in place back in the early ‘60s when the super-jetport was contemplated.

My main concern would be complications in the expected “thief steals package, then opens it in their car/home” chain of events. What if the thief is using someone else’s car? Or opens it in someone else’s home? Or a Starbuck’s? At most you’ve embarrassed them a bit, while stinking and glittering up some innocent…

Technically “assault” doesn’t even require physical contact (that’s “battery”). “Assault” can simply be taking a swing at somebody.

The most fascinating part to me is that it’s not that South Jersey was never developed - it’s that its industries (like “bog iron” and cranberry and blueberry agriculture) fell into decline, and it just kind of faded back into the Pine Barrens. A lot of central Pennsylvania went the same route.

While Vago dwells on the novelty of the idea of a New Jersey ghost town, as Beck’s book title implies, there are actually rather a lot of such places. In addition to Atsion, Batsto, and Whitesbog as listed in that link, I’ve personally visited the towns of Friendship and Washington.

That was actually the first X-Files episode I ever saw. I was, indeed, unimpressed. The Vancouver area where they filmed looked nothing like the creepily distinctive Pine Barrens - as later Sopranos fans could likely attest. Particularly silly was the notion that one of the feral human “devils” could inadvertantly…

Should have included Kinja.

A Mary Poppins/Flowers in the Attic mash-up would have been an... interesting direction to take the franchise.

That’s an impressive cast. Probably kind of hard to “action up” that story line into a popular Die Hard sequel, though.

Well, clearly he should be wearing some kind of orthopedic shoes.

I’ll buy your “inconsistency” point, but so far as workplace misbehavior is concerned, there’s an enormous difference between sneaking a sandwich into your space capsule and encountering an alien creature making a threat display and proceeding to tease it... while not even wearing your helmet.

Even if the chronology of Scott’s prequels technically means that David initiated the chain of events that leads to Alien, I’m not sure he can exactly be said to have “created the xenos” — the Engineers appear to have created humanity and the xeno-raw material, and seem to be a pretty ill-tempered and hateful bunch in…