Well, most of those are just clumsy crop jobs, but some of them are perfectly valid sports photos. Fully half the point of sports in general is watching beautiful bodies do amazing things.

If all you want is a celebration of the human spirit, you can watch chess and golf and Scrabble competitions. And if you want to complain about the objectification of the human body, there are lots worse things to complain about.

/promises not to expect all women to look like fashion models if women promise not to expect all men to look like body builders

Well, there goes one of our perks.... Don't worry. We're replacing it with a special Twitter feed that notifies you when John Goodman is back on the sauce and when Lindsey Lohan is back off.

Also, due to Joel Schumacher's advancing age, we're replacing him with McG in the punch-in-the-face event.

Good thing we didn't send a probe to Venus.

But this isn't just Viking with wheels. NASA has sent a whole laboratory up there this time and is going to do some serious science. I think they have very specific suspicions about where life—or evidence of what was once life—may be and are going after it.

Today we begin in earnest our search for life on other planets. Life that one day we may be able to communicate with. No one knows the form this life may take, if it will have a face or even a corporeal form, but we do know this: we WILL try to have sex with it.

We will band together as a planet and send a fleet of young men and women from all over the world (except Eskimos) into space to seek out new life and new civilizations. They will carry our banner and our ideals to the far reaches of the solar system and beyond, searching for anything with a hole or protuberance that looks remotely inviting. We pledge to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. We do not know what benefits await us. They may try to eat us, perhaps enslave us, even steal our brains, but we will persevere. Space is out there, and we are going to bang it.

I watched Donnie Darko (theatrical cut) for the first time last night and was very pleasantly surprised. It was like John Hughes flipped out and wrote a movie while running a high fever. It was a little vague and left some loose ends (the mysterious old lady in particular), but I really liked the pacing, moodiness, and music.

I'm tempted to get the director's cut, but apparently it kind of ruins the pacing and mood in the course of cramming in a bunch of slightly-less-vague nonsense about how Donnie's universe works.

Any opinions?

I want some of these as throw pillows or something. They're terrific.

David Tennant was great, but his companions got progressively more annoying, in my opinion. And RTD's scripts got progressively more ridiculous and mawkish until the finale just threw up on itself and sobbed.

Matt Smitt under Steven Moffat was a wonderful breath of fresh air that is only just starting to go a little stale after last year's season-long shaggy dog story.

No, it's not fallacious. Britons and Canadians largely commit their crimes WITHOUT guns. And that's why their murder rates are extremely low despite the fact that their overall crime rates and ours have met in the middle. Taking guns out of a population largely stops them from murdering people because it is really hard to stab someone to death unless you've been trained.

HOWEVER, Switzerland demonstrates that a well-armed population does not NECESSARILY commit murder at American rates. This is because they do not have urban free-fire zones filled with angry, unemployed gangbangers with no prospects in life.

If you want to keep guns and have a kinder, gentler society, you have to argue that we need to improve our social conditions to reduce the population of people living lives of desperation. People who are members of the NRA do not give a shit about that.

Count me in.

I can attest that Blu-ray looks spectacular projected at 1080P on a 120" screen. And I'd gladly trade any proposed increase in resolution for greater brightness and contrast.

But I think DVR and streaming HD are perfectly acceptable. And I'd gladly trade any proposed increase in bitrate for streaming access to commentaries and other extras.