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Tony Blair Apologizes For Iraq War "Mistakes"--But Not For Ousting Saddam

That works. Thank You.

If The Hulk seems a little calmer than usual, it's because Black Widow told him he could have Fruity Pebbles for dinner. I swear it's true--you can't make this stuff up.

I was leaning towards Nathaniel or Nathan myself, but it doesn't sound Russian enough.

The artist who did this piece did an excellent job imagining Black Widow as a man--although I wonder what the male form of the name "Natasha" would be--

"I AM IRON MAN!!!"

Perhaps he picked it up when he joined the Party early on. The Nazis were a really rough bunch in the beginning--lots of unemployed workers and street toughs and such, meeting in taverns and backrooms and places like that. That's how I figure it, anyway.

Oh, all right-- Lucas Oil Stadium At Wikipedia

Clown Motel At Roadside America

Fantastic Plastic A site devoted to spaceship and other science fiction models. They even have some of their own models for sale, although they can be pretty pricey. Hope that helps.

Den Of Geek: Top 75 Spaceships In Movies And TV A fairly good selection of spaceships here, if not quite definitive. They do include one of my favorites--the Fireball XL5. That's the one I qualified on when I was six years old. (What? All little kids are fully qualified spaceship pilots. George Lucas said so. )

Maybe--but Hefner does have two sons, Marston and Cooper, by his second wife Kimberly Conrad. Both of them are young adults and have dated Playmates in the past, It's possible they might step into his slippers and slip into his smoking jacket when the elder Hefner passes on, becoming the heirs to the Playboy spirit, if not the actual business.

I must disagree. Yes, Playboy has had, and undoubtedly will continue to have, world class articles and fiction. But that wasn't the reason the magazine became such a huge hit. And it wasn't just the nudes in and of themselves that made Playboy a hit--granted, they were what got people's attention to begin with, and certainly there are more explicit images of female nudity, both still and moving, which can be found quite easily on the Internet or almost anywhere else. That does not mean there is not a place for Playboy in men's entertainment--or in society for that matter. One of the things that Playboy did when they first started photographing their own Playmates and models was that they depicted the women as enjoying sex and being with men as much the men enjoyed being with them. This was done through the choice of props to reflect, as I understand how Hefner put it, "the presence of a man." A necktie draped across a chairback, the woman wearing a man's shirt, two half-full cocktail glasses rather than one--all that and more (especially in the cartoons) were part of cultivating this idea, which at the time seemed quite revolutionary, and even in an age where it seems like everyone and her sister has a page on a webcam site, it's an idea which to my mind is still worthy of attention. I don't know what Playboy hopes to accomplish by getting rid of the idea that made it a hit in the first place, and no matter how they attempt to spin it, it still seems like a win for the anti-sex activists who have dogged Playboy since its inception. I remember an interview with Hefner in which he described the history of sexual liberation in America as being "two steps forward, one step backward." It always seemed to me like Hefner and Playboy were the ones leading the two steps forward, and I don't know who, if anyone, will take their place. Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will.

Someone Lowered A GoPro Into A Rattlesnake Pit In case the link title wasn't enough--be advised that there are SNAKES. Lots of SNAKES.

There's something about the robot in the background in this image that makes me think it's trying to sneak up on the hero--and as he's doing so it's laughing to itself---

So--would this be The Joker at ninety, or The Joker as he might appear in his own "Dorian Grey" portrait?

Guess who's underneath the helmet of this costume?

Oklahoma City Renames Columbus Day

There are those who believe the original series Star Trek was actually like this--

Years ago I was at a panel at GEN CON where Timothy Zahn and a few others were talking about Star Wars, and he commented on Thrawn's death, saying some people had criticized it because they thought he (Zahn) didn't want anyone else using the character. Zahn then explained that he killed Thrawn for two reasons--first, to give the readers a sense of closure to the trilogy, and second, because if Thrawn had lived, the New Republic would have been doomed. So there you go. Personally, I want the New Republic to win.

Saw this posted on Facebook and thought I'd pass it along--Timothy Zahn and what is perhaps his greatest contribution to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The guy nails Grand Admiral Thrawn, in my opinion--