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14 years ago @ Big Journalism - ESPN Moves to Silence ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Actually, under those wonderful federal regulations, they can't tell one employee to shut up about his views while allowing another to express his. Disparity of treatment. Any action they take against Azinger will be actionable unless they take the same action against anyone who's expressed a political opinion on air, in print, or on Twitter.

14 years ago @ Big Journalism - ESPN Moves to Silence ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I wish most sports personalities would just shut up about politics. Of course, they might know as much (little) about politics as they (don't) know about sports...

I was amused to see Peter King following the leftist line about "civility" after the Tuscon shootings. He wouldn't answer me, though, when I asked him if he'd expressed his views to Keith Olbermann when the two of them shared a studio of NBC's Sunday night telecast...

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Good News: Superman Lo... · 0 replies · +4 points

John, if Bleeding Cool said the sky was blue, I'd poke my head out the window and check to be safe.

After all, BC is the child of Rich Johnston, infamous comics gossip columnist and crazed Brit leftist. (I would call him a Communist, but he's rather further to the left than that.)

Johnston will forever be best remembered by me as the guy who literally cried when he saw the cover of the (vaporware) "American Power" comic. It featured a superhero punching someone who looked a lot like Osama Bin Laden. I was... puzzled at this. In the ensuing conversation, he let it be known that OBL was just a sickly old man who couldn't hurt anyone, and that such a depiction of him showed the creators who made the comic (including Chuck Dixon) were seriously deranged.

Yeah. That's the nitwit you're sourcing and giving hits to here.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Obama Administration S... · 1 reply · +6 points

The Panthers have been to a Super Bowl and a few NFC championship games in recent years, Greg. Maybe you were thinking of the Bengals? Or maybe the Millen era Lions?

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Thor' Review: Convolu... · 1 reply · +3 points

I would probably take Carl's griping about being unable to keep the "confusing" names straight if he'd managed to grasp that the "Frozen Giants" are actually called "Frost Giants." Repeatedly.

Seems to me he was doing something else during the movie and barely paying attention.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Trailer Talk: Transfor... · 0 replies · +2 points

Not so much. The original miniseries, yes. The one where they threw away almost all the characters they'd spent years developing in a cynical move to sell toys, not so much.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Trailer Talk: Transfor... · 1 reply · +4 points

If Bay has a three year old, he could have had him/her ghost-write the script and turned up something more coherent.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - This Week's 'Castle' E... · 0 replies · +1 points

Seriously? The villain was not the atomic scientist from the Islamic terrorist nation, not the terrorist nation's spymaster, or anyone else... it was ex-military. And the homeland security type attached to the investigation wound up being the most scary figure in the two episodes.

How do you get more PC (not to mention predictable) in this day than that?

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Bankrupt Nihilism ... · 0 replies · +1 points

The last I exchanged some emails with him (was back after the end of the DET, I think), he was very upset over WotC using Drizzt in an "Around the Realms" novel and having announced a planned Drizzt trilogy with another author.

RAS's problem is that he's a one trick pony. He writes fights really, really well. However, after two plus decades of doing that, you have to run out of tricks to keep the reader interesting. He's only ever created one group of characters that were moderately interested (I can only name one other character in any of his novels, and that's because we share the same first name - and he killed him off at the end of the novel).

He's tried to do epics and failed. He's tried to do non-swords and sorcery and failed (Vector Prime, ugh). He's tried to do dark fantasy and failed. When he tries to do more traditional S&S, it comes across as a pale imitation of his first two trilogies. Nowhere left to go.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - The Bankrupt Nihilism ... · 0 replies · +2 points

They do. The gaming product drives the novels. And essentially destroying the Realms has essentially destroyed both.

On the other hand, no one made Salvatore make Drizzt a compromising fool rather than a hero.

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