At BHL I linked to Kevin C.’s response to the Obama campaign’s Life of Julia sleme.*
(*Sleme = slimy meme.)
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Separated At Birth?
And in a parallel universe, Hans Hoppe is Chinese:
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 32: Remembering Traditional Marriage
Longtime readers of this blog will recognise my latest BHL post, on same-sex marriage, as a shameless mashup of several of my previous AAE posts on the same topic.
My people believe in using every part of the blog.
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 20: The Dear Leader Deigns to Authorise Your Marriage
I think it’s sweet that our mass-murdering, civil-liberties-shredding President has finally (for the second time) “evolved” all the way to the Dick Cheney level of enlightenment on gay marriage. I’m sure that’ll be a great comfort to Bradley Manning.
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
I enjoyed the Avengers movie quite a bit, but I did have some problems with it, and one of them is Loki. In Thor, Loki was a complex, nuanced, somewhat sympathetic antagonist; in The Avengers he’s just pure malevolence, which is less interesting.
Actually that was my chief quarrel with the second Hulk movie too. In the first Hulk movie (which of course isn’t strictly part of the Avengers continuity, but the second Hulk movie picked up so many narrative strands from the first that it’s hard to treat it as purely separate either), General Ross was likewise a complex, nuanced, somewhat sympathetic antagonist, and one who was opposed to the human experimentation that led to Banner’s condition; in the second Hulk movie Ross is more straightforwardly villainous (albeit not completely so) and is actually carrying on human experimentation himself.
B5 Baker Street
Twitter exchange between Straczynski and Moffat here and here, over Sherlock.
It occurs to me that both writers have featured season finales involving the series protagonist apparently falling to his death.