I am delighted to no end by Loki escaping S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters in a mudding truck.
Also, I would gladly pay over $100 for a full-on Siege of Minas Tirath set. Is it just me or are the castle sets they put out now less...ambitious?
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
What did you do with the chip shops? WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?
On the one hand, the compromise that insurers would have to provide birth control still means that companies could end up paying. On the other hand, let people have their goddamn birth control. Surely it doesn't take an elected official or religious leader to understand that the poorest people — those who need help paying for their birth control — are the people least likely to be able to afford raising a child.
I think this is the source of the contention. You are positing a world view that suggests human comfort has some primacy, and actions which support the furthering of human comfort have to fit the real world.
The Catholic world view is that human comfort does not have primacy, or that it's ranking is very low in the order of priorities, and that the realities of the world have to bow to a theorized world beyond ours.
I think my brother had the right of it when he said "I don't go to church to get peace. I go to church to be punished."
Fuck yes, I want a Push sequel. It was a great movie, and I gotta say I'm really down with Chris Evans as a leading action guy.
This is...this is...
Excuse me, I need a moment to compose myself. *sniffles* It's all so beautiful...
I'm not going to lie, this sounds like the sexiest thing I have ever heard.
The dreaded fish-bear strikes again!
Looks like it'll be a fun movie. I wonder if they'll actually go through with the end of the world, though.
Goddamit, Associated Press. Jews are not the only people with a burr up their ass about Nazism.
I'm a 24 year old American of Irish/Italian Catholic ancestry. I also have a loathing for Nazism that might be described as a fervency. I don't know a decent human being who doesn't at least find the idea of Nazis distasteful.
There really is no excuse for United States Marines, who one would expect to have at least enough of a grasp on history to know who they have fought in the last century, to be proudly displaying fucking Nazi paramilitary symbols.
Yes, Kumail Nanjiani is an awesome geek comic. One of Chris Hardwick's better finds.
Also, that was filmed at the Laff Hole show in Seattle put on by the People's Republic of Komedy. Those guys are fantastic.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you kill, maim or abuse Nazis in your film, that is an instant star.
A black astronaut fighting "mankind's greatest enemy"? I don't know if I could love any movie more.
It's milk. That's gone bad.
Also, lactose tolerance? A late addition to the human reptoire. Y'all are mutants.
Thank. Fucking. GOD. Somebody finally said it.
Brian goddamn Moylan in 2012.
Well I'm glad he just came clean about Neonomicom.
Always remember that even famous, brilliant people have to pay their mortgage and stuff.
Damn, it's too late for me to edit. I meant to suggest the opposite. Strike that, reverse it.
"...certainly one I think is less accurate and beneficial to the world."
Game of Thrones > LotR, in terms of allegory.
I remember two things about the Thomas Covenant books: that they were incomprehensible, and the protagonist was a rapist.
The Dark Tower series was really pivotal for the formation of my views on the nature of, life, evil and how one combats it.
"Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever."
Also, Eddie Dean murders AIs with shitty street jokes. So awesome.
I'm struggling to see how Martin's work doesn't contain allegory. The entire series is a pretty hard deconstruction of the idea chivalrous nobility and other social/political bullshit in Western fantasy.
Even putting aside Tolkien's dislike of allegory (which ZPriceIsRight lays out in a comment below), the allegorical content of LotR is, while perhaps not less mature than Game of Thones, certainly one I think is more accurate and beneficial to the world. Remember that Tolkien chose to cast all of the industrial lower class of England as vile, mindless, destructive orcs.
Oh Michael. I'm sorry, but you are not John Hodgman or Paul F. Tompkins. This will not do.
Jee-zus that looks delicious.
