No lie, I had to look up what a 'petard' was. Apparently it's a kind of explosive . Thanks, Assassin's Creed, for teaching ...

When I wrote my  last week's missive  on my car and first-world problems, I didn't think any more of it. I didn't have even a sp...

My unedited first impressions as I listened to the first Trump vs Clinton debate this evening while working: Both of you, stop referring t...

Female characters in comics are, despite popular rhetoric, really quite common. You can't go five pages without tripping over an enhance...

There are racists in the world. This revelation should come as no surprise to anyone, be they Left or Right, progressive or conservative, ...

These days, everyone likes to talk about race, gender, sexuality, and sometimes religion, if it's the right religion. Entire worldviews ...

Two possible events happened this last weekend. In one instance, a group of terrifying misogynists infiltrated a convention, harassed...

So the big announcement has gone out that John Stewart will be leaving The Daily Show. His replacement is a comedian from South Africa, Trev...

 I'm taking a week off, busy stuff in preparing for a visit from a friend, so here's something I wrote about 2 years ago. Always int...

     In 2006, for the first time in decades, The Doctor toppled a government on television, bringing Prime Minister Harriet Jones's G...

     Picking up the ball and running with points made in a recent post by our lovely Overlord Erin , I'd like to throw a few words at t...

[this review may contain minor spoilers for X-Men: Days of Future Past]      It's fortuitous and somewhat coincidental that X-Men: ...

     While we're on the subject of Marvel ( see last week ), there's a subject I'd like to touch on that I have never quite comp...