“Is this seat… Taken? Haha no I’m just joshin’ but seriously I’m gonna sit here.” -Liam Neeson at movie theaters, all the time I hope

— Aaron Fullerton (@AaronFullerton) September 22, 2012

I’ve never understood the appeal of eating at a restaurant that calls itself a “factory”.

— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) December 11, 2012

Really glad ‘Man of Steel’ will cover Superman’s origin story, because otherwise how would I know?

— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) December 11, 2012

Between Occupy and the unions, the left is the major purveyor of political violence in America today.

— Joshua Treviño (@jstrevino) December 11, 2012

666 is an evil number so I suggest you stop murdering when you get to 665 victims.

— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) December 11, 2012

Game Change 2: The Game Stayed Pretty Much The Same.

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) December 11, 2012

Those MI union rioters look hungry. Let’s air drop ’em some Twinkies.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 11, 2012

In 2013 it’s going to come out that Dick Morris was a consultant to the Mayans.

— Joshua Malina (@JoshMalina) December 11, 2012

It’s the trailer for the new Superman movie!

After viewing it, my status is now “Hopeful.”

Now, Ace seemed to freak out about this trailer saying that comic book movies all need to aim at a specific light tone, but he is so wrong on this that he should now question all his political views since they come from the same brain.

Now, Superman should not be dark. He’s not Batman; he’s not into heroism because his parents were tragically murdered. But treating him as a real human seems like a good idea after that ponderous Bryan Singer Superman where he was like this demigod. And I agree with Allahpundit that if we’re talking about someone for truth, justice, and the American way, he should be a little grim these days.

Superman is actually pretty hard to do good stories for because he’s often portrayed as so nigh invulnerable, but it can still be done and my favorite characterization of him is when he’s made as sort of an opposite of Batman. For Batman, he is Batman and Bruce Wayne is just a mask he wears. But Superman is a mask that Clark Kent wears, because deep down Superman is this good guy from the midwest who fights evil not for vengeance, but out of optimism. Now, you can put some grit around it, but I hope there is still that optimism which the trailer does hint at (he seems to say he doesn’t fear how the world will react to him the way his father did).

So, maybe the movie will get this right, and Zod is the villain and he should do nicely. Still, I wish it had Lex Luthor in it… not necessarily as the villain but just around. I really want to see the lawful evil businessman portrayal of him on the big screen opposed the criminal buffoon that Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey portrayed him as.

One other reservation, I really like Amy Adams, but don’t you need someone tougher for Lois Lane? Lois Lane was about the only thing the Smallville series did perfectly.

[High Praise! to VW (via email)]

Just wanted to let you know – today I received my 2013 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, two discount coupons to KFC, an “Obama Hope & Change” bumper sticker, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my ass and a “Blame it on Bush” poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish. Yours should arrive soon.

A Rasmussen survey had people rank their freedoms, with freedom of speech being more important and right to bear arms least important. Best of the Web characterized this to asking Moms to rank their children. Our freedoms are our God-given rights; it’s a package deal. You recognize all of them or they all get compromised.

But, as a practical matter, the right to bear arms is the most important. Because when you have a gun in hand, people much more readily recognize your other rights. How often do you hear, “Hey, you with the gun, shut up.”?

So Right to Work passed in Michigan, and here is Steven Crowder getting punched repeatedly over it:

It’s not really a wonder union members often get extremely angry and resort to violence. They’ve been convinced that the only reason they have a livelihood at all is because of the protections of unions, thus their whole sense of security is wrapped up in these corrupt organizations. In a way, it’s like a microcosm of government dependence: People who feel they can’t survive by themselves if not without the intervention of others — and then they don’t care how corrupt or incompetent those others are as long as they seem to have power.

Like many things in America, the solution is freedom. More specifically, people learning a real independence and feeling their livelihoods are in their own power and not held by others. We really need more self-esteem as a nation, and more responsibility.

And unions are just so backwards these days. How far can a company go when you have an adversarial relationship between workers and management. You want a whole company working towards its goals instead of one half trying to profit as much as it can off of the other.

Unions, you’re archaic and silly and cause people to be dependents, i.e., you’re against the American way. Time for you to go. And then maybe people won’t be so scared and violent.