taxbaby commented on Are Conservatives Better at Creating Futuristic Stories?, at 3:57 PM on May 16 @Annalee Newitz: Neither have I; I stuck with the Ender's Game series for a while, and that wasn't doctrinaire conservative, but I hear from friends that his work has gotten much more ideological recently. more »

taxbaby commented on Are Conservatives Better at Creating Futuristic Stories?, at 3:55 PM on May 16 @quetzilla: I think that's more a failure of imagination than an inherently conservative trait; it's like when 16th-century painters did works depicting Biblical events but still insisted on putting them in 16th-century clothing. more »

taxbaby commented on Are Conservatives Better at Creating Futuristic Stories?, at 3:36 PM on May 16 @SpecialK: Oh, socks. more »

taxbaby commented on Are Conservatives Better at Creating Futuristic Stories?, at 3:35 PM on May 16 The thing about Atlas Shrugged is that it inspired a pointed critique by the videogame Bioshock. Further, if you want to talk about conservative sci-fi, you'd better bring in Orson Scott Card. more »

taxbaby commented on Jerry Bruckheimer Renames Science-Investigator Show, at 11:15 PM on May 15 @Ma1agate: I am also a fan. more »

taxbaby commented on Rapid Deevolution Creates Lake of Fully-Armored Fish in Just 50 Years, at 11:11 PM on May 15 Um, at the risk of being a little parochial: WE DID IT! more »

taxbaby commented on The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails, at 7:28 AM on May 15 @ManchuCandidate: No worries; the morans (sic) would have to extensively handle or, um, bite them to be wounded. more »

taxbaby commented on The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails, at 7:26 AM on May 15 @taxbaby: Scratch that. more »

taxbaby commented on Why Kevin Conroy Is The One True Voice Of Batman, at 7:25 AM on May 15 @mitchel_stevens: 2 out of 3, my friend. more »

taxbaby commented on First Look At Anna Torv In Fringe And Hiro's New Foe!, at 7:23 AM on May 15 "The show ends with a big cliffhanger: is Lex alive or dead?" The answer to this question is always, always 'alive'. more »

taxbaby commented on The Savage Colors of Naked, Toxic Sea Snails, at 7:18 AM on May 15 How cool that you guys picked this up. more »

taxbaby commented on Why Kevin Conroy Is The One True Voice Of Batman, at 6:17 PM on May 14 I think that's 'lent his intimidating, gravely voice,' y'all. Also, I'm sorry, but anime restylings are old hat. more »

taxbaby commented on The Alternate-Universe Fashions Of Watchmen, at 8:56 PM on May 13 Embarrassingly, I'm excited by the period costumes... more »

taxbaby commented on The Tastiest Food Moments in Science Fiction, at 5:22 PM on May 12 What, no shout-out to the delicious taspar egg? more »

taxbaby commented on Scully Spills What She's Missed About Mulder, at 1:53 PM on May 12 @darcymcgee: She actually wore sensible pumps with a stacked low heel pretty often. more »

taxbaby commented on First Image of Dragonball's Goku, at 1:50 PM on May 12 Ridic. more »

taxbaby commented on Kong's Big Comeback, at 8:11 AM on May 12 @beelzebuddha: I don't think the fact that his misogyny was also the misogyny of his time exculpates him at all, any more than the hideous racism of authors during and after the Civil War is excused because that's what a lot of other people thought too. more »

taxbaby commented on Kong's Big Comeback, at 1:18 PM on May 11 @jbq: YOUR ARGUMENT IS LIKE THAT OF A NAZI. There. more »