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Since today's comic commentary talks about Batman, let's put this in terms of Batman. Batman doesn't kill the Joker, and the usual stated reason is that "oh, it would make me the same as him if I killed him." The response I see floating around, universally, is "uh, no, Bruce, it's pr...

It's part of the "magic talisman" status that the anti-firearms crowd has been able to ingrain in much of the public consciousness. A firearm isn't a tool, or an inanimate object, it's an evil talisman that kills people. It's special, and different, and scary. Every time someone buys $5 o...

http://www.leftoversoup.com/comics/los0913.png I'm pretty sure it's a coincidence at this point, but if I were doing a repost of my Jamie Is A Demon theory, this one would have gone on the list. Random other thoughts: -Gee, I hope he wasn't yelling in the last comic because he was in the middle of ...

If you can be working to provide value to society, you should, and if you can't, you should be working towards that goal. This isn't really essential to your point, but it offends me so I'm going to rant about it. Society exists to serve people. Yes, it requires upkeep, but the upkeep is not the en...

remember skimming some study or other recently that said the sources of men's and women's anger tend to differ. Women, by and large, are more likely to become angry at feelings of powerlessness, injustice, and others' irresponsibility. I know for a fact that you didn't skim the study, because I tra...

... huh. I totally missed all of those.

Gotta say, I'm expecting something terrible to have happened when she gets back now.

http://www.leftoversoup.com/comics/los0865.png There's a reason that Ellen specified that she was talking about computer game lemmings. As we all know, real lemmings don't actually throw themselves off of cliffs. Throwing yourself off a cliff - for love, for politics, for a nature documentary, beca...

Yeah, surprisingly it's M/M fics that are way more popular than F/F fics and I've heard various explanations for it(read: it's been blamed on misogyny, straight women fetishizing gay men, etc) but honestly it's just. A thing. It's a phenomena I don't really want or need an explanation for. "Fe...