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« March 2015 | Main | May 2015 » April 30, 2015Yeah, but wouldn't it be awesome if he won anyway? Chris Cillizza explains the point of the Bernie Sanders primary run. Not that i'm not rooting for Sanders to win regardless. By fnord12 | April 30, 2015, 1:52 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link Right message, wrong time? Kevin Drum discusses the implications of the lead hypothesis in the case of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore police. I've been very interested in the lead theory and (while acknowledging my personal lack of scientific expertise), i agree with it. But i'm not sure leading off the post by talking about Gray's lead levels was the right choice. From what i've read (and again, i should be cautious and say of course i don't know what happened), it doesn't seem like Gray's behavior - lead influenced or not - merited what happened to him. Drum does later say that "even if you're a hard-ass law-and-order type" you'll want to look at the lead hypothesis, but it just struck me the wrong way to frame the subject. For a different take, here's Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest. By fnord12 | April 30, 2015, 1:46 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (2) | Link And Let Them Eat Cake, Too I was going to end today's spate of postings on a high note with that brontosaurus thing, but then my RSS feed had to tell me this: Later during the same broadcast, McDonough called for a "scientific study" of what he called the "thug nation" in the black community. McDounough is a Republican member of the state's House of Delegates who represents a suburban area northeast of the city. McDonough's food stamps comment came in response to a caller who asked, if protesters are "too young, why can't they take away benefits from families, from like the parents who are collecting welfare." "That's an idea and that could be legislation," replied McDonough. "I think that you could make the case that there is a failure to do proper parenting and allowing this stuff to happen, is there an opportunity for a month to take away your food stamps?" During much of the three hour program, McDonough discussed the "thug community" of Baltimore. At one point, discussing the possibility of a "scientific study" on "police relationships with the black community," he said such an effort is necessary because there has never been research by "brilliant, honest, objective people" on "this community, this culture, this thug nation." "These young people, they're violent, they're brutal, their mindset is dysfunctional to a point of being dangerous," he said, noting that he does not want to "put them in a test tube or cage." But, McDonough added, "We have got to study, investigate, and really look at what this is all about," calling it a problem "that prevails the nation from Los Angeles to Baltimore to Baltimore County." McDonough repeated several times during his broadcast that his use of the term "thug" was not a "dog whistle" because President Obama had used the term to describe Baltimore protesters. He also added that he has supported scholarships, which have benefited people of color. In fact, some of his closest friends are black. He might even know a few Asians. McDonough also benefits from campaign support from major donors across the state. Campaign finance records show donations to McDonough's campaign account from the Harford County Deputy Sheriffs PAC, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield PAC, and StateFarm Agents PAC, among other established interests in Maryland. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:59 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link I Could Never Remember Apatosaurus So, it's fantastic that they brought the Brontosaurus back. Whatever, apatosaurus. Brontosaurus 4EVR!!!! By min | April 30, 2015, 8:50 AM | Science | Comments (2) | Link You Don't Own Anything Anymore Not your digital books that you paid dollars for. And not your car. Fucking DMCA. You can support EFF's exemption requests by adding your name to the petition we'll submit in the rulemaking. Most of the automakers operating in the US filed opposition comments through trade associations, along with a couple of other vehicle manufacturers. They warn that owners with the freedom to inspect and modify code will be capable of violating a wide range of laws and harming themselves and others. They say you shouldn't be allowed to repair your own car because you might not do it right. They say you shouldn't be allowed to modify the code in your car because you might defraud a used car purchaser by changing the mileage. They say no one should be allowed to even look at the code without the manufacturer's permission because letting the public learn how cars work could help malicious hackers, "third-party software developers" (the horror!), and competitors. John Deere even argued that letting people modify car computer systems will result in them pirating music through the on-board entertainment system, which would be one of the more convoluted ways to copy media (and the exemption process doesn't authorize copyright infringement, anyway). Yep. I'm building up my music collection through my car radio. It's slow going, but so totally worth it. And when i'm done with that, i'm going to ask my car's computer to tell me where the last Golden Ticket is hidden. Here's how you can help. The opponents of the vehicle exemptions say that no one really cares about the restrictions they place on access to vehicle code, so the Copyright Office should deny the exemptions. Now, we cited a number of projects, and thousands of people wrote to the office to support the exemptions, but we are confident there are even more projects, businesses, and individuals out there who need these exemptions and it would be a shame if the Copyright Office didn't know it. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:43 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link More Gender Pay Gap in the Corporate World That's the conclusion of new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Three economists looked at more than a decade's worth of data to figure out why women in business -- even those able to break into the executive suite -- still earn far less than men on average. The key factor, according to their analysis: performance pay, a theoretically meritocratic system that, in practice, ends up rewarding those already in charge. "The accumulation is going to be there even when women get promoted, and also possibly if you move to another firm, because usually your past compensation is used in some degree," Albanesi said. "These differences can be very, very persistent." Albanesi and her co-authors looked at compensation data for more than 40,000 executives at publicly traded companies in the U.S. between 1992 and 2005. Of those, just 1,312 -- 3.2 percent -- were women. And the typical woman in the group earned 14 percent less than the typical male executive. (The gap is even wider when looking at average rather than median pay.) The vast majority of that gap is explained by so-called incentive pay, compensation linked to a company's performance, such as bonuses and stock options. The disparity adds up over time: Since men get granted more stock than women, they benefit more when a company performs well. The authors refer to these accumulated gains as an executive's "firm-specific wealth"; a $1 million increase in a company's value adds $17,150 to a male executive's wealth, but just $1,670 to a woman's. But while male executives benefit more when their companies do well, it's women who suffer more when their companies do badly. If a firm loses 1 percent of its value, women's firm-specific wealth falls 63 percent, while men's falls just 33 percent. That may seem paradoxical: If men's pay is more closely linked to their companies' success, then they should be more exposed to bad news as well as good. But the authors argue that logic misunderstands how executive pay works. Incentive pay is often billed as "pay for performance," but in practice, executives have lots of ways to game the system. For example, chief executives often play a major role in choosing members of the board of directors, who in turn set the CEO's pay. ... One common criticism of gender-gap analyses is that they fail to account for differences between male and female workers that have nothing to do with sex. Female executives are, on average, younger and less senior; they are also more common in certain industries or types of companies, which might tend to pay less. But in this paper, the authors control for age, title and the company where the executives work. The other possibility, of course, is that women earn less incentive pay because they don't perform as well. But the researchers looked at that too: "There is no link between standard measures of firm performance and female representation in the team of top executives," they write. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:36 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link We Outsource Everything It really keeps costs down and helps with avoiding pesky laws that get in the way of your goals. "There are places throughout the world where CIA has worked with other intelligence services and has been able to bring people into custody and engage in the debriefings of these individuals ... through our liaison partners, and sometimes there are joint debriefings that take place as well," said John Brennan, the CIA director, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Brennan's remarks confirm what journalists have long reported: that the Obama administration sometimes helps other countries do the dirty work of snatching and interrogating terror suspects -- keeping the U.S. at arm's length from operations that are ethically and legally dubious.. Brennan's comments today are a rare confirmation that the CIA remains actively involved in the arrest and interrogation of terrorist suspects overseas. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:28 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link Bulk Collection Could Expire Section 215 of the Patriot Act is the authority that the NSA, with the FBI's help, has interpreted to allow the U.S. government to vacuum up the call records of millions of innocent people. It expires on June 1. In fact, despite the Administration's push for reform legislation, it looks increasingly likely that the next vote Congress will face on NSA spying is the June 1 sunset. That's why contacting Congress about the vote is so important--lawmakers should understand that their vote is a statement about where they stand on the Constitution. ... If you agree that it's time to end mass surveillance, contact Congress and tell them what you expect to see: a no vote on reauthorization of Section 215 on June 1, along with some real comprehensive reform to NSA spying. Although, there could be a loophole. Some journalists and privacy advocates have speculated that, even if Section 215 were to expire in the absence of other legislation, bulk collection could continue under Section 102(b) of Public Law 109-177, which some have said would allow investigations that began before the expiration of Section 215 to continue. In November, Charlie Savage at the New York Times reported that the provision could mean that:as long as there was an older counterterrorism investigation still open, the court could keep issuing Section 215 orders to phone companies indefinitely for that investigation. Since they can claim everything is a matter of national security and don't ever need to reveal anything, they could pretty much claim everything is part of an older investigation. But even taking a tiny bit of authority for bulk collection of data from the NSA is a good thing. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:12 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link At Least We'll Have Beans Fnord will be happy. In response, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) dug into its seed repository and struck gold. After testing more than 1,000 bean varieties they had developed during other projects, investigators identified around 30 that revealed some ability to produce seeds in spite of toasty night temperatures. Those beans have the potential not only to survive increasing temperatures, but to thrive. In fact, they might even expand the area where beans can be grown. By min | April 30, 2015, 8:05 AM | Science| Link
Woot Bernie Sanders running as a Democrat in the primary against Hillary. By fnord12 | April 28, 2015, 7:36 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (4) | Link Explains my Timeline grading scale By fnord12 | April 28, 2015, 3:38 PM | Comics| Link The resistance will turn out to be futile By fnord12 | April 28, 2015, 12:50 PM | Comics| Link The only gun toting vigilante action hero you need to know Jarvis the Butler. By fnord12 | April 28, 2015, 11:48 AM | Comics| Link
The Punisher is pro-gun control Tim O'Neil at The Hurting has an interesting post on the Punisher. It's a contrast between the era that i'm currently in the middle of reviewing for my Timeline project and a contemporary run that i know nothing about. So it's half very relevant and half lost on me (although O'Neil provides context). What's interesting is that O'Neil says of the Punisher, "He's a right-wing revenge fantasy as it might have been designed by left-wingers who understood the precise limitations of the type." And then he goes on to describe his favorite run, which is Mike Baron's. And i've always understood Baron to be a conservative; certainly his afterward for the 1988 trade paperback collecting the 1986 Punisher mini-series (bottom of the entry) complains about 'liberals'. But his Punisher run is actually much more free of the negative tropes that one associates with the Punisher than you'd think. It's actually Carl Potts, who sounds much more liberal than Baron in that same trade paperback, and who who says some of the same things that O'Neil quotes Eliot Brown saying, that has the Punisher massacring minority gang bangers. Meanwhile Baron has him fighting corrupt South Vietnamese generals, white supremacist groups, and even Wall Street execs. To O'Neil's point, though, both Baron and Potts definitely present the Punisher as a kind of crazy person whose "stories took place in a universe that acknowledged that the Punisher was on the wrong side of the law and existed primarily in dialogue with - and as a foil, not a corrective - to more traditional superheroes like Spider-Man". By fnord12 | April 27, 2015, 6:29 PM | Comics | Comments (2) | Link Nonsense and the nonsencial nonsensers who nonsense them Come with me, deep into the weeds of the Harry Reed injury conspiracy theory. By fnord12 | April 27, 2015, 5:56 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link Finnish populist speeding tickets Four words that may seem like they may not make a lot of sense when put together, but they do. By fnord12 | April 27, 2015, 12:33 PM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link
They Must Smell the Vegan on Us Cause it's starting to feel like we're living in a Snow White house. Last spring, we discovered robins had made a nest in one of the bushes on our back patio. This didn't bother us so much, but whenever we spent time on our back patio, the adult robins would freak out, sometimes nearly falling out of the nest. They also attempted a complex series of "stealth" approaches to get into the nest with food for their babies. We tried to explain to them it wasn't necessary because we could see them, but they never got the message. We, ofc, couldn't contain our curiousity, so would periodically peer into the bush to see how the babies were developing. In case you were wondering, they're pretty hideous when they first hatch. Worse than human babies. When they finally get some feathers, they look less horrible. For the first week or so, they're just gaping mouths. At some point, they turn into real birds. That's about when you should stop peering in on them because now they can see and when a big hairy head pops into their nest, it causes them to jump out in terror. Yeah...i got a panicked IM from fnord about how he thought he just killed the birds. It's ok! They're fine! In fact, i think the parents were grateful for fnord's help in getting their teens out of the nest for them. Now, these stupid birds - despite the heart attack they nearly suffered every 10 minutes when they re-remembered the hairless apes that shared their territory, they not only stayed to hatch a second brood later in the summer, but came back this spring. Fnord and i found this to be incredible enough. But now... A week ago, we came back from a walk and as we approached our front door, a rabbit ran out of the front flower bed - a flower bed with no flowers or anything of interest for a rabbit to eat. But it didn't run away. It just ran a couple of feet and sat there, looking at us. WTF? That is not normal wild animal behavior. It should have kept running to get away from us. A few days later, the same thing happened again. Today, we discovered why it was hanging around. It's living under my lenten roses.
That bush is 2 ft from my front door. Why the hell is it living so close to my front door??? That's not a safe, away from humans, place to put your stupid rabbit house!
And it has babies! Here's my size 6.5 foot for a size comparison. Babies that hide in the grass. Babies we thought were dead cause the one was too scared to move even when Fnord tapped it with his foot. Babies i nearly stepped on cause i am completely unaware of my surroundings and don't expect to have things in the grass that i need to be worried about stepping on. This is unacceptable. What's going to happen next year? Am i going to come home to find the deer sitting on my couch watching Netflix? By min | April 26, 2015, 2:58 PM | My stupid life | Comments (1) | Link
Attorney General Shouldn't Be an Elected Position Eric Lipton from the New York Times just won a Pulizter for his three-party story on how lobbyists are buying attorney generals and shaping policies. Here's the Intercept's summary of it: Public officials acting in the public interest was clearly a glitch in the matrix, and corporate America set out to eliminate it. In 2000 the GOP created the Republican Attorneys General Association, telling corporate lawyers to "round up your clients and come see what RAGA is all about" and then contribute because policy was being set "via the courthouse rather than the statehouse." RAGA raked in at least $11.7 million in 2014, including $2.2 million from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and $500,000 from Sheldon Adelson. The Democrats founded DAGA in 2002, and it now siphons up big chunks of money from many of the same donors as RAGA, including Citigroup, Comcast, Coca-Cola and Pfizer. RAGA and DAGA provide one-stop shops for influencing state attorneys general. Corporations donate; RAGA and DAGA distribute much of their cash to the campaigns of individual attorneys general; and some of the rest of the money pays for "conferences" that include fundraisers at which corporate executives and their lawyers can donate more to officials in attendance. Then after the attorneys general leave office, they can use the contacts they've developed to go work directly for the corporations. The end result has been a kind of outsourcing of what citizens would expect their legal representatives to do themselves. For instance, The Times found: Ofc it has absolutely no influence on your decisions when someone just gave you a ton of money that helped get you elected. Why would anyone feel obligated to do some favor in return? Plus, instead of shmoozing and politicking and spending time asking for campaign donations so they can hold on to their jobs for another term, mebbe it would be nice if the AGs could spend some time actually being the "people's lawyers". By min | April 23, 2015, 1:04 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
Why is fnord cranky today? When i'm on hold, stop breaking in every 30 seconds to tell me that your representatives are still busy helping other customers. I know that; it's why i'm still on hold. Your insipid on-hold music is enough to let me know that i haven't been disconnected (which has already happened twice). When you turn that off to give me your dumb message, i think that someone is ready to finally talk to me, and i have to stop what i'm doing. If you'd just shut up i could sit here and work on something else until you're ready and i wouldn't be so cranky. Also, why hasn't everyone adopted the "put in your phone number and we'll call you when we're ready" method? Getting disconnected sucks, but getting disconnected and therefore losing your place in line after waiting for 30 minutes really sucks. By fnord12 | April 22, 2015, 12:31 PM | My stupid life | Comments (1) | Link Thoughts on the Daredevil Netflix Series So Far Fnord and i have watched the first 8 episodes. We'll prolly do some sort of sum up once we finish watching all the episodes. But, i needed to say two things. 1) I know you own a razor, Matt. I saw it in your bathroom. How are you going into court looking like you've got dirt on your face? Use the fucking razor! And it's not even electric, so how are you maintaining just the right amount of scruff every single day? Ugh. Scruff is not cute if it's your every day look. It just makes you look like you won't ever finish growing out that beard. 2) Vanessa is crazy in her crazy head. What the hell is wrong with her brain? Fnord says she hangs out with a lot of artists so she can't hear the crazy when the Kingpin talks, but c'mon. There might as well have been a flashing neon sign over his head in episode 8. When he asked if he was a monster, the answer she should have been shouting in her head was "YES!!!" and the verbal one should have been "Oh, I gotta go save my friend from this fake emergency that I asked her to text me about so that I'd have an excuse to leave buh-bye." And these are the things i think when i'm enjoying the show i'm watching. By min | April 22, 2015, 9:38 AM | Comics & TeeVee | Comments (6) | Link
SuperMegaSpeed Reviews Ms. Marvel #14 - Takeshi Miyazawa is still on art and i continue to prefer it over Adrian Alphona's. Such a great range of expressions. Really perfect especially for the downtime romance stuff. Storywise i guess i'm just a tad disappointed. I mentioned a few issues back that the one thing that this book is lacking is subplots. There's really just the main story and that's it. That's not quite true since we do have Bruno not-so-secretly pining for Kamala, and there was a little movement on that front in this issue. But there's not much there, really (although it was handled well this issue). I took heart in the fact that the lettercol a few issues back said that the book was going to start focusing more on Kamala's Inhuman side as well as a romantic interest. But i assumed that meant those things in addition to the villain/adventure of the month. Instead those things have become the villain/adventure of the month. I still enjoy this book, as evidenced by the fact that it and Daredevil are the only two Marvel books i'm still reading. But i feel like it could use a little more depth to bring it from a good monthly story to a truly classic ongoing series. I guess it's all moot anyway, with the Secret Wars stuff coming up. Now where's my banana? Ook ook ook! By fnord12 | April 21, 2015, 4:10 PM | Comics| Link
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Recap 66 It Looks Good On You, Though, Flerm By min | April 17, 2015, 10:55 AM | D&D| Link It's like my conscience is talking to me Recognizing that Movable Type is a dead platform, i've been doing a lot of hacking of the code lately. The good news is that no one will ever look at mine. At least i can do it myself and i don't have to call this guy. By fnord12 | April 17, 2015, 10:50 AM | Comics & My stupid life | Comments (1) | Link
Tentacles... ...can sometimes be a problem. By fnord12 | April 16, 2015, 3:22 PM | Comics| Link Gender Pay Gap in 2014 From FiveThirtyEight: For example, the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit think tank, looked at the hourly wages for men and women across income percentiles and found that at every decile, men outearned women in 2014. The gap is largest at the 95th percentile, with women earning only 79 percent of what men earn in the same income level.1 The narrowing of the wage gap for low-income earners is largely due to the minimum wage, which is the same for men and women. But the lowest-wage occupations remain disproportionately female. Happy Unequal Pay Day, ladies. The post has several links you can click through plus a graphic. One of them goes to the Economic Policy Institute. Though the gap between men and women's wages is smaller for lower-wage earners, there is still a significant gender wage gap at all levels of the wage distribution, particularly at the middle and the top. To close this gender wage gap, women need to see wage growth faster than their male counterparts. Although women have seen modest wage gains in the last several decades, the main reason the gender wage gap has slowly narrowed is that the vast majority of men's wages have stagnated or declined. The best way to close the gender wage gap is for both men and women to see real wage increases, with women at a faster rate than men. Yay minimum wage, i guess. In a society where there are still more single mothers than fathers, women are still not getting equal pay. At least in Chile, employers can claim it's because they're providing childcare. By min | April 16, 2015, 8:30 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
On the other hand, you really can't go wrong with a pet tiger No one seems to know what to do with Wonder Woman. It's really not that hard. She's a super hero. Give her things to punch. By fnord12 | April 15, 2015, 4:46 PM | Comics & Movies | Comments (1) | Link
This guy lives down the street Click it for the full cartoon by Brian McFadden, but something about that particular portion struck me. By fnord12 | April 11, 2015, 6:43 PM | Comics| Link
Preserving Old Video Games Will Apparently Bring On the Apocalypse Or the destruction of the video game industry, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Section 1201 is often used by the entertainment industries not to prevent copyright infringement but to control markets and lock out competition. So it's not surprising that ESA (the trade association for the largest game producers), along with MPAA and RIAA, have written to the Copyright Office to oppose this exemption. They say that modifying games to connect to a new server (or to avoid contacting a server at all) after publisher support ends--letting people continue to play the games they paid for--will destroy the video game industry. They say it would "undermine the fundamental copyright principles on which our copyright laws are based." If they aren't going to maintain the servers and no longer want to make money off the games, why shouldn't people who already own it have a way to keep playing that game? How many times have you gone back to play Super Nintendo Zelda? Yeah, mebbe some people would make some money selling it to people who didn't originally own the game, but how does that compare to how much video game companies already made on the old, unmaintained game and will continue to make on newer games? Having the ability to play an older game isn't going to make people suddenly decide they are done buying new games. Exactly how will it destroy the industry? By min | April 9, 2015, 8:53 AM | Liberal Outrage & Video Games | Comments (4) | Link
Marvel Sales By fnord12 | April 3, 2015, 2:03 PM | Comics| Link SuperMegaSpeed Reviews Elektra #11 - Well, goodbye! This was an interesting series. I can't say i'm too broken up to see it gone. But it definitely had it's moments. Mike del Mundo's art was the main selling point. He says in his goodbye blurb at the end of this issue that he was strongly influenced by Frank Miller & Bill Sienkiewicz's Elektra: Assassin, and that's what i liked about it too. Plotwise, i felt like things were too decompressed and meandering, and it's interesting to see that in his end blurb, writer Harden Blackman admits that he had no idea what he was going to do with the character when he started and that the editors had to get him back on track when he "lost the plot". In a sense that really makes this feel like a wasted opportunity. Even if the book was really intended as a vehicle for del Mundo, Marvel ought to have had a stronger strategy for the book. I feel the same way about Black Widow (which is still being published, but we dropped) and She-Hulk (cancelled). All books have a hard time staying afloat nowadays, and a book with indie style art and a female lead character especially could use all the help it could get. Marvel (admirably) decided to launch a number of books with female leads following the success/enthusiasm from Captain and Ms. Marvel, but "show up and throw up" was not a good strategy for keeping them on the market. I also have the more fanboy complaint of the casual use of villains, and that continues with the very end of this issue where a bunch of moderately powerful villains, most of whom in my opinion should be not members of an assassin's guild (but that may not be Blackman's fault), show up to get menaced by Elektra. I honestly would have liked this series more if Elektra got to actually fight those villains, preferably one on one, but actual super-villain fights were mostly shunted to the sidelines in this book. Still, there were some interesting moments, so i'm glad to have read the series even though at the same time i'm not too sorry to see it go. Daredevil #14 - Based on the cover i wondered if maybe Darkhawk was in this issue. But it's really a daughter of the Owl. She's introduced pretty well. Seems more powerful than her father and starts off in an interesting situation with Daredevil that is handled well, as is the Owl/Shroud story which moves from subplot to main plot with this issue. This continues to be a really nice book. The ad on the cover informing us that the Netflix Daredevil sereis is starting soon makes me regret even more that Waid and Samnee are leaving, since that might have resulted in an influx of readers for a series that gets a lot of critical praise but only moderate commercial success. Thanos vs. Hulk #4 - I've seen people complain that this series was a bait & switch, since Thanos turns out to barely figure into the story, with Annihilus being the main threat. And that is definitely true, especially since we know that this book was originally intended to be a story in Savage Hulk but was deliberately moved into its own mini-series with Thanos' name put first. But the truth is i would have gotten this no matter what, so i don't personally have anything to complain about. Well, i mean, i do, but not about that. I've enjoyed the series so far, but with this final issues some of the minor things that have been bugging me came to the forefront. The first is the scripting of the Hulk, which seems off. I've read a lot of dumb Hulk over the years, and he's never called people "dummies" or complained that the villain "flaps jaws too much". I get that that the Hulk has now had so many personalities that you can't officially write him "wrong", but a) this one is close enough to classic dumb Hulk that it feels wrong in an uncanny valley sort of way and b)for a story like this, you really want classic dumb Hulk anyway. The other thing is the big panels resulting in low content, which was especially noticeable in this issue which was mostly a fight. I liked the basic idea here, but it was probably worth 4 pages of story, not 20. I should start scoring comics with a panels-to-pages ratio and see what i think the sweet spot is. Anyway, this is over. Actually between this and Elektra ending, our pull list is i think down to just Daredevil and Ms. Marvel. By fnord12 | April 3, 2015, 10:16 AM | Comics | Comments (2) | Link Well then fuck the Board of Trustees By fnord12 | April 3, 2015, 10:05 AM | Liberal Outrage | Comments (1) | Link
Nuts! Diet by the Most Emailed list is probably not wise, but Krugman's post is still funny. Here's the fish oil article. Except for the nuts, it's all irrelevant to us vegans but it's nice to hear we might not be killing ourselves even though we can't take fish oil supplements. By fnord12 | April 1, 2015, 2:32 PM | Science| Link |
