I think the Lorax doesn't count as a sucker punch because you can see this one coming a mile a way. A punch, yes, but not a sucker punch.

I love that story! I'm still waiting for my little ones to get old enough to sit all the way through it.

The only version they had in the store was in an anthogy that wraps up with The Lorax, which was unfortunate. I would rather not have spent money on that one (just think how many trees have died to print that book! those filthy capitalists...), but what can you do? I guess some day it will provide an opportunity to discuss logical fallacies and the anti-humanism of the green movement.

If Mitt gets the nomination, my money is on Rand Paul for his VP pick.

It's Animal Farm in real time.

Particularly at this time as the distribution medium is going through such a huge change. As people are relying less on theaters, cable and network TV for their entertainment, and moving toward streaming services, there is a huge opportunity for independent and small outfits to step in and have an opportunity to reach large numbers of people that they simply wouldn't have had five years ago.

Alright, since you're such a scientific genius here, what do you think is the result of putting impressionable students in a highly sex-saturated environment and telling them that any sexual act they wish to engage in is healthy and normal? Particularly when you couple it with that lovely phrase 'You're going to do it anyway...'

I agree. Instead of making the story more awesome, it just made 3PO lame. Make a dish washer. Make a parts sorter. Those are the sorts of things a slave needs. Princess Leia needed a protocol droid because she was a Princess and ambassador. They should have left both droids out of the prequels. They didn't add anything; rather, they strained credibility.

Your ability to sum up the entire nature of the Catholic church by pointing to the misbehavior of a handful of priests demonstrates a complete lack of education regarding Catholicism and a total removal from all logic, as demonstrated by the comparison to misbehaving teachers. No one looks at them and says that those teachers are sufficient evidence to discredit everything that comes out of public education.

Your simplification is even more ludicrous when you take into account the aspects of the Catholic church that are directly related to the subject matter; ie. the Catholic Church is one of the largest health care providers in the United States, running somewhere around 20% of the hospitals in the country. Let's see, logically, would an organization that runs 20% of the nation's hospitals know something about health care, and the sorts of things that ought to be provided in order to keep people healthy? YES.

And as far as employees of the Catholic church who want to use birth control, the Catholic church has absolutely no ability to prevent them from using it. They cannot do a single thing to stop them from purchasing birth control pills, or abortions. They can't even stop practicing Catholics from using birth control. But if a woman feels that having her birth control subsidized is an important feature in choosing an employer, she should turn to the 80% of the health care field that isn't run by Catholics and get work there. The idea that women are helpless waifs incapable of running their own lives is frankly insulting. You misogynist.

You're entirely correct. The false advertising the left uses on this subject is astounding. They complained about marriage in the 60's because somehow being a wife meant you were just a sex toy, and feminism was somehow supposed to liberate women from being treated as only sexual objects, but instead of having men treat women's sexuality as sacred, liberals really want all women to be non-profit whores. We shouldn't get in the way of a woman's ability to be used for sex by any man who wants her by requiring that she pay for birth control; we shouldn't interrupt a woman's sexual availability by making her go through an entire pregnancy and post-birth recovery... We shouldn't require that men who want to use her for sex go through the minimum requirement of throwing her a big party and promising they'll love her, cherish her, stay with her through sickness and health... Because all of that interferes with a man's ability to sleep around with the maximum number of women possible.

Hooray! I'm so glad to hear you say that covering up molestation removes an organization's right to have any opinions. I guess that means that public school teachers (who molest kids at a rate 30 times greater than the Catholic priests did) can shut up about funding for public schools now. There were rapes at the Occupy movements, including the rape of a minor in Dallas. I guess that means we get to ignore everything wrong with the banking sector because they've forfeited their first amendment rights. In fact, the only organization I know of that has a perfectly clean bill of health in the sexual depravity realm is the Tea Party. Time to shut everyone up and let the Tea Party be the only group who has a say politically!