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Just because you don't try to justify your POV with a book written by a person/several people/God, the authenticity of which can only be proved by it itself and is therefore justified only by faith doesn't mean a POV is more valid. Very true. One can just plain get things wrong without any help fro...

Self-righteousness has many homes, not all of them religious in architecture--but until relatively recently in human history, societies were by default more religious, and thus self-righteousness was usually a religious failing. Look at literature through the early 20th century for more examples tha...

Hey, non-Christians look at porn too. Really, it's a fact.

Or so I've heard.

BTW--what happened to the OP after the grenade was rolled under the door? There are names for people who start online fights and fail to stick around for them.

http://www.ahjonline.com/article/PIIS00 ... 6/abstract" target="_blank

Is the abstract for the article I alluded to earlier (and with tongue heading cheekward), by the way. The results are interesting but not terribly significant.

Well, sure. Nirvana could make the phone book sound like Nirvana.

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I seem to recall studies that also show that people of faith tend to have better recovery/survivable rates at hospitals. Something like that.

Up until the moment where they're told they're being prayed for, at which point they do worse.

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Oh, and where is Shadowfax, dammit.

In the hold, with Gildor and Glorfindel.

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Even Nirvana played it

And then Cobain killed himself. Coincidence? Hmmmm...

My wife says the first episode reminded her way too much of Seven--relentlessly dark, without the compensatory wittiness that she liked in Firefly. I find myself agreeing. I've got the other two on the DVR--does it lighten up at all? If not I'm not interested.

Ready = I will be in a different zip code 2 minutes from now.

I have Orwell listed as a pre-end-of-WWII author because Animal Farm made the cutoff and I didn't want to split authors across the already arbitrary divisions. Graham Greene is in much the same situation, on the other side. Either could have gone either way.

I'll leave the other 9999 to your imagination so as not to crash the server after some of the others.

I'll stick to author's like Guy Gavriel Kay or Neil Gaiman. I like Gaiman. A lot. But Gaiman's non-graphical stuff is all post-2000 (except for Good Omens , which was a tag team with Pratchett), which for me means it's just too new to put into perspective. I do think Gaiman has it in him to produce...

My Sharona at least has a beat. And a Weird Al parody.

All of REO's stuff kind of mushes together into a gray, goopy musical ooze. Nothing to recommend it, but it doesn't suck your soul like that other song I can't bear to mention again.

No song could be worse than "Seasons in the Sun."

Seriously. Adding banjos and a children's choir and accordion opera rap beats to that song would only improve it.

Speaking as someone who went through one, the crotchety part sticks with you. In fact, one could argue it's what prompted my response to the list in the first place. ;) I can see that if I posted something on a lark and someone took it too seriously, it could be annoying. But I really do blame messa...

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I feel way better if I get to write yes! next to a book with no no's next to it too.

I know I like saying yes to no-nos myself.

I blame message boards.

I'm sorry if you felt insulted. That really wasn't my intent, nor I suspect Estel's, who also had problems with the list, I believe. Yet...if I passed along a list of 100 Broadway musicals that asked who had seen how many, and on it were included half a dozen operas, Handel's Messiah (AND the Hallel...

They have Dan Brown. I think that ends this discussion. :D ETA: OK, that was too glib and snarky. :) Here's my point: yes, I am denigrating their list, although much of it is perfectly all right. When you put out a list and say "how many of these have you read" it can't help but come off a...

Alatar- I didn't know I was trying to impress. :P What I am doing is listing 100 books that have interested, intrigued, affected, shaped or otherwise proven memorable and worthwhile for me, within the field I know best, literature in the English language. It may not be the best books ever written, b...