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You obviously haven't read the newer stuff. It's so fraught and confused, I'm expecting to come across a sad little tome about Hitler's abusive past and life as a conflicted schoolyard bully any day now. Kid lit and YA lit have gone for moral ambiguity in a big way since the good old days.

My contributions to the genre category of Best Unknown Films is "Best Seller", a violent little Cagney-esque thriller from the 1980s, starring James Woods as an assasin who forms an odd partnership with Brian Denehy's cop-turned-true-crime-writer. You have to get over a little age with this...

Yeah, that's always a help :) The first thing I read of hers was the first book of the Transformation series, and I liked it very much - there was a nice relationship between the two protagonists at the center, an interesting theme about responsibility and leadership, and more complexity...

Impossible choice. My favorites include: Heathcliff, of course, for his savagary and the realism of both his transformation into a monster and of his pitiless use of violence ; Gatsby, who is seen only dimly and who is half-consumed by embodying the author's themes and yet still manages to be...

Until 9/11 made it a little too dramatic, I always had an airplane filled with the celebrities who needed to go away, possibly into the ground at rapid speed. Gwynny was there, and that lascivious food tramp Nigela, along with Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, Dr. Phil, the Queer Eye guys, Ryan...

Ah, I'm jealous. I often get fed up with novels about women of a certain age and their marriages, and I go running back to the children's section. Once there, though, I quickly feel like a goofus and slink out trying to convey an aura of "oh, I'm just shopping for my children, Kate and Devon...

Well, of course. But I sometimes suspect an overreliance on emoticons has rendered people unable to do the whole 'in context' analysis of another's words.

Thanks. I actually posted that as a joke, but failed to plaster LOLOLOLOLOLOLLO:):):):) everywhere, so it was misinterpreted. Why, why do I ever assume anyone online will get a joke? :)LOL!!!!

There are limited circumstances in which the benfits of granting the state license to execute criminals outweighs the costs, in part because the sheer enormity of the act of killing a citizen places a great burden of justification on the state, and that tends to inhibit the increase of capital...

Excuse me if I'm posting in the wrong place (seems right, horror, but I've noticed that popular authors sometimes have their own area) but anyone read Cell yet? Visually, it's much thinner than most King books. Likeable, interesting, intermittently gory. But somehow - disappointing...

Castrating (to chuck yet another word in there) someone is fairly serious, yes. Hey, I'm not the one advocating we save the children by castrating naughty women. I'm not quite following on the whole knife attack v. murder analogy; I was saying that I'd rather see a child-abuser put to death...

She could shack up with/marry someone with kids, babysit, become a foster parent, befriend lonely little neighbor kids, adopt, be a teacher/Girl Scout/Brownie/Daisy/whatever leader, volunteer at various child-centered charities/organizations, etc. Childbirth is the most basic method, but hardly...

Oddly enough, no. I love books, libraries and used bookstores, but not the people. I've yet to meet a librarian or a bookstore clerk who didn't make me want to run into an alternative record shop for some warm, friendly interaction.

Well, pretty much all those cursed semi-literary modern books that *everyone* has to read, like The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nightime," "The Kite Runner," "The Life Of Pi" "Bee Season" ad nauseum.... They make me feel like I'm back in high school, but this time instead of it just...

It's ineffective because it's a surgical procedure to remove reproductive organs, not an agent of change that will prevent someone from abusing children. I don't like the idea of this woman having more children, but I don't see her aberrant behavior as a sufficient reason to change our system...

Not at all. I just think your idea is both ineffective and creepy.

That's interesting. How about, instead of criminizalizing pregnancy, we criminalize sex? Then issue special permits to permit people with no prior record of rape or child abuse to have at it?

My only explanation is the sheer size of the Baby Boomer generation. Get a tiny percentage of that group that still has a lingering affection for magical realism, faerie and the like, and you've still got a lot of people.

Well, I was watching Commander In Chief, which was quite good until ABC mauled it to death - replaced the Exec Producer, dumbed it down, put that dweeb from the Canadian-teen-show-which-shall-not-be-named on as a major star, and now they're hiatusing it. And this was what they did to a show...

The only problem with this argument is that it gets lost - the only organ that creates child abuse victims is the brain. Sterilizing rapists or women who routinely abuse their children isn't a good answer, practically or otherwise. For one thing, it doesn't take a pregnancy to put a woman in...