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Or he's God's instrument sent to protect and have kinky sex with him.

Its almost as if they decided to create the link as an afterthought.

I think I learned in microeconomics that, when making a decision, you shouldn't consider time or resources already spent (opportunity cost?). That is, if the decision was wrong to go to war (as you stated) then continuing on the same course won't somehow make it right. I think those are sunk costs. Don't ask me, I got a 2 on my AP macro because my essay was just "macroeconomics can be rearranged to spell ice raccoon moms." How did I not get a 1? I drew a shitty graph in which a guy was skiing down a demand curve. Test fatigue, I guess. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> At least you remember the direction the demand curve goes. Remember, kids, the supply curve goes up towards the sun, while the demand curve goes down.

That is actually true. Their children were adopted. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wikipedia to the rescue... credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts#...and_memberships Yeah, I thought they were a little old to have toddlers.

That explains VOLUMES. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean an upper middle-class kid growing up to be a staunch Republican? Well, I'm just shocked!

"Eyes". ABC cancelled it after like 6 weeks earlier this year. "Alias", however, lives on.

The foul memory of "National Treasure" is still to burned into my memory for me to be able to sit through any film starring Nicholar Cage. Seriously, if you want to make a movie for 12 year olds, market it to 12 years olds.

It was Spirit in that episode, not Snake-Eyes.

I'm not surprised "Lord of War" didn't do better. The commericals make it look like a typical shitty Nicholas Cage movie, where he spouts lot of unfunny one-liners, tries to do something illegal, and learns a valuable lesson before the end of the movie.

Superman #166 was okay with me. I liked Alan Moore's take on Krypton life in the issue where Supes and Mongul duked it out since it made them seem a little more human. You couldn't do that with Byrne's version of what Kryptonian life was like so the storyline possibilities were less varied. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The thing about that is, though, anything to be done with that version of Superman's origin was pretty much already done by the time Byrne came along. The thing I like most about Byrne's Krpton is that it actually seemed like a plausible alien world, instead of a 1930s science fiction writer's idea of what an alien culture might be like. Byrne's version, though, I've heard was nullified by Superman: Birthright. I have not read Superman: Birthright, but what changes were made to Superman's origin in that story? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I didn't hate Byrne's Krypton, but I did think it could've been better. There was no tragedy behind it's destruction, it was a mercy death. The futuristic dystopia was, quite frankly, overused during the eighties and nineties. I think Krypton should represent a positive view of what humans could become--that's originally why Superman was called "The Man of Tomorrow." That being said, I did like the use of Byrne's Krypton in The Nail (which was just a good story all around). As for Superman: Birthright, I can pretty much help you with that. There's a page explaining the new elements on the Superman Homepage (I do some comic reviews there)--check it out here. Alternatively, you could just read Superman: Secret Files 2005 which comes out in November and features a retelling of Superman's origin. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Byrne's Krypton was ultimately a product of 1986, but it was also the template DC was using for most of the next two decades, so to totally flush it with "Birthright" calls a lot of the stories that were published between 1986 and 2004 into question. I'm sure this is how silver age readers felt after the first Crisis. (The difference being the first Crisis was justifed to modernize DC, whereas "Birthright" seems to only exist to justify the existence of a TV show.) DC seems bound and determined to reset their continuity back to 1984. It would be nice if there was a way for them to say "fuck it" and start over, but that would leave a lot of marketable characters out in the cold. This is essentially what Marvel did with their "Ultimate" line, with an accelerated effort being made to introduce as many mainstream Marvel characters into the Ultimate line as possible.

You gotta love parents who dress their kid like its 1930.

Nothing against Nitro, but to be fair to Maven, his heel mic work at New Year's Revolution was gold. Creative dropped the ball with him, big time.

You, know...if the Bush Administration isn't totally corrupt, they certainly are doing nothing to prevent people from drawing that conclusion. Doesn't anyone in the administration ever stop and think, "This looks wrong."

Blasphemy. The 3rd season of Mr. Show was hillarity incarnate.

OMG PLZ BAN~!!!!!111

His Director's Cut of Star Trek The Motion Picture (the one on DVD) was actually very good. Felt like you were watching an actual film, instead of an extended TV show (like you did with most of the others).

X-Play is probably 3 times better than anything else on that network. They actually try to put on a show, versus everything else which is just people standing around talking to each other ("Attack of the Show!" the the worst when it comes to this). Icons is pretty good, but gets corny and pretencious sometimes.

I notice it has "The Late Mr. Kent", perhaps my favorite episode of the series. Definitely a must buy.

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This sounds convoluted as hell. So is there any real connection to "Crisis on Infinite Earths" rather than the rip-off title?

Is it just me, or does he never really explain what was so great about Valentine? He gave a really left-handed compliment to Valentine, put Steamboat over big time, then told us that Valentine was better. Really not very convincing.

Certainly a logical explanation for quite a few things.

Anybody else watching "The Daily Show" this week? Funny, funny stuff.

Someone needs to post the pic of his son dancing during the inital nomination.

I'm sure he was capable of waiting 7 minutes before being escorted out of the room by his staff.