Andrea Harris discusses the increased role of female characters in the Lord of the Rings movies. I’m still getting through the first book, so I’ll reserve my judgment.
Say happy birthday to your Emperor. Hopefully the old man won’t get overly excited during his next fisking and break a hip.
Both Mrs. Du Toit and Toren Smith comment on new idiocy from the U.K. on crime. I don’t know how I can stress this enough: Other Country Than America = Bad
I’ll just point out that there is another country besides the US that doesn’t have psychotically authoritarian gun laws, and even lower crime than here, but then who wants to actually live in Switzerland?
Nobody.
The Swiss are the people that get wigged out every year by pregnant cow “fights”.
Switzerland = land of very silly people.
The fondue is good, though. So is the beer. (No, I don’t want to live there either!)