It is the city of spooks. It is the city of crooks. It is the city of Coolsville. It is the city of Gotham City. In Coolsville, you can expect to be scared by a man in a ghost mask. In Gotham City, you can expect your entire family to be murdered by a psychotic villian. In Coolsville, a band of meddling kids foils the plans of these masked criminals long before there are any casualties. In Metropolis, Batman foils the plans of these villians after they have already destroyed a number of lives....

I've been downloading tons of pornography lately, much of it being "barely legal", and I've realized something: eighteen-year-olds are too young to do this shit! After all, some of them are still in high school, and it's not as if they have much experience as adults, since they've just become adults. Therefore, I propose that we raise the age of consent to twenty-one. Eighteen-year-olds will still have all the other rights they already have, but they'll have to wait until they're twenty-one t...

Why do people believe that men such as Jerry Falwell represent more than a tiny percentage of Christians? Some even believe that zealots like him were responsible for winning the election in Bush's favor! Supposedly, it's because of the lack of outcry against the likes of him from more moderate Christians. Supposedly, it's their responsibility to tell the world, "He doesn't represent us."I'll accept that, but what does that mean for other groups? Islam is called the religion of peace, despite t...

Some people have negative feelings toward breast augmentation and the women who've done it. The surgery is unnecessary and vain, and only shallow men and women with low self-confidence approve of it. However, waxing one's body hair, dying one's hair, wearing fragrances, using mousse, painting one's nails, and dressing fashionably are accepted universally, even though such acts are also vain and unnecessary. After all, both result in nothing but aesthetic enhancement. Maybe I'm missing something ...

Ever since Adequacy.org , the greatest website in existence, shut down, David Wong's Pointless Waste of Time has attempted to fill the hole left in my heart with little success. However, one of his recent articles has flooded that void with insight and laughter. In this article, he wrote about something that affects all conscious life in the universe: the Monkeysphere . I'd describe it, but it'd be better if you simply read the article.