Gou'ald motherships DO use a lot of fuel.  We also keep blowing them up, which can't be good for the environment. 

Dredd is a somewhat unique case.  It is based on a comic book series that was very violent and very serious.  Naturally, when they made it into a movie they chose to cast Rob Schneider as the "funny" sidekick.  This choice epitomizes the shabby treatment the source material was given on this script.  The remake is a much darker, much more violent, version that is much closer to the original stories.  In addition, the star of the film is Karl Urban who excelled in The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek, where he played Dr. McCoy.  Apparently Urban is a fan of the comics and was a driving force in getting the movie made this way. 

Not too long ago I was out eating lunch by myself and quietly reading a book.  Unfortunately, I was committing the apparently unpardonable offense of reading Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," since a random woman stomped up to my table and started haranguing me about "how could I read such a thing" and "didn't I understand how racist it was" (which I still don't really understand) and so on.  Now, because of my background, I have two methods that I tend to use when dealing with rude people.  First, I become insultingly polite.  You can't imagine how angry that makes people.  Second, and what I did here, is I pretend I find the whole thing very amusing and the longer they are being rude, the wider my grin gets.  Eventually, the woman says something like, "You think hate is funny!?" "No, but you're a lot more entertaining than this book is!"  Which is really a slander on the book, since it's a great read, but the comment had the effect I wanted which was that she sputtered and stomped back to her table.

They would also have to inject a racial component since Lincoln was a Republican president and therefor, by definition, hated blacks. 

"Said Mr. Lincoln, speaking to an all-white audience." 

I'm not surprised.  One of Obama's key personality traits is a lack of restraint.  He wants what he wants and he wants it now -- all of it -- and if someone looks like they are going to get in his way he blasts them with everything in his arsenal.  Even when it is ill advised. 

Peter Schickele has long been my favorite musician to see play live.  I'm a little bummed that he may have retired from touring.

Incidentally, if you can get your hands on any recordings of his radio program Schickele Mix, they are a blast.

Not long ago he appeared on the British car show "Top Gear."  His interview there was fantastic as well.  This is the youtube clip of it.  The first five minutes are him talking about cars and showing clips from Johnny English Reborn, but at around the five minute mark he gets talking about comedy and about how he makes things funny, starting with why the name "Bob" is funny.  Well worth a look.

I tuned in and it started playing Carl Nielsen's Symphony #2 "The Four Temperaments", which, I have to admit, is quite humorous.

...sorry, couldn't resist that one.

Diane Ellis

As opposed to those traditional American names like O'Donnell, Magliozzi, and Ohlhausen? I kid, I kid this nation of immigrants.

Sandy Berger's undergarments.

At least with fiction, its the urge to create and to share some of those images swimming around inside your head with others.

Or Indiana Joneses?

You never really appreciate it until you realize you're out.

My vote for greatest invention is the corrective lens.  If I had my eyesight in my great-great-grandparent's time, I would have been essentially useless on the farm.  I'd have wandered into a peat bog and died.

Primarily it's his academic achievements.  He graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law and was president of the Harvard Law Review.  To achieve this takes a certain degree of intelligence.  Roughly as much intelligence as it takes to graduate from Yale and Harvard Business. 

The problem is that it isn't a hagiography.  John and Robert Kennedy were and are secular saints to many liberals and to portray them as merely human and capable of fault is blasphemy.  Liberals tend to view television and movies as theirs, a safe place for them where the troubles of reality can't intrude, so to have this appear on television feels to them like someone striding into a church and yelling that the Virgin Mary is a harlot (they'd use stronger words, but I'm not gonna here) would to a Christian.

My one-man assault on the term "teabagger" to refer to tea partiers involves immediately calling the person a vulgar sex term that involves the symbol of the Democrat party.  By this I mean, they say something like "Those stupid teabaggers are just after Obama 'cause he's black." to which I reply, "It's not about race.  Obama and all the other [expletive deleted]s are spending this country into the grave."  Nine times out of ten they react in disgust and horror to my term and become very annoyed when I point out that they started the vulgar name calling bit.  They often bring out the old canard of "Well, if they didn't want to be called teabaggers then they shouldn't have called themselves that!"  Depending on how much I like the person I either ask if the teapartiers could have called themselves anything without the media perverting it or I make up a vulgar perversion of their own name and say if their parents didn't want someone calling you that, they shouldn't have named you X.  They usually stop annoying me at this point.