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[TA]

Pretty sure Superman used to do a bunch of that back in like the 40s.

[Büge]

Yeah, I remember reading about how he'd smash slums to bits and build people decent homes. The author called him a "New Deal superhero."

[François]

why did he stop then

you know a guy has sold out when he's too busy fighting aliens and mutants to dropkick an investment banker through a plate glass window so hard that they have to scrape his body off the building across the street

no offense to actual investment bankers in the audience, some of my best friends are the scum of the earth too

[Mongrel]

After Watergate and the economic trouble of the late 70's/early 80's, there were a lot of criminal supervillains and just plain regular CEOs and politicians done as villains through the 80's and early 90's.

I remember that's when the Kingpin came back in a big way after becoming really obscure.

[TA]

This is the 2010 Commencement for Columbia University.  Skip to 38:37 in to be at the start of an amusing anecdote from the valedictorian's speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsid1JKxK0#t=38m37s

Skip to 3:23 in here to get the start of the Patton Oswalt routine he ripped off almost word-for-word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEk3CLIWxYE#t=03m23s

[Mongrel]

Kid's got a bright future, I see.

[Büge]

Stealing is bad, but stealing from Patton Oswalt of all people? You'd think the valedictorian would at least use a joke from one of Bill Cosby's old records or something. Heck, I saw the punchline arriving as soon as the exam question came up. Mostly because it's exactly what I would have done.

[Thad]

Yeah, I remember reading about how he'd smash slums to bits and build people decent homes. The author called him a "New Deal superhero."

Yeah, and there was one early story where, after a mining accident, he took the owner of the company and trapped him inside his own mine until he agreed to impose stricter safety procedures.

After Watergate and the economic trouble of the late 70's/early 80's, there were a lot of criminal supervillains and just plain regular CEOs and politicians done as villains through the 80's and early 90's.

I remember that's when the Kingpin came back in a big way after becoming really obscure.

Well, and Luthor became a businessman instead of (just) a mad scientist.

[Mongrel]

Well, and Luthor became a businessman instead of (just) a mad scientist.

That's another really good one I didn't mention. That was pretty huge - it basically updated the character by about fifty years with a stroke of the pen.

[Mongrel]

Real child starves to death while parents raise virtual child online

I could say something glib like "blackest of ironies", but I think I'll just stick with 'Jesus Fucking Christ' instead.

[Büge]

A man who called 911 could be deported

[Mongrel]

By the way, anybody see the sinkhole that opened up in Guatemala City?

That first picture is so freaky, it looks like the sinkhole was superimposed via photoshop.

[TA]

I'm not so much bothered by the sinkhole as the fact that it appears to open up into the Underdark a few hundred yards down.

[sei]

Since we're already on the topic of gaping holes, South African Politicians Want To Ban All Porn Online

[Mongrel]

Maybe they heard about Australia's laws and decided they wanted to beat the competition?

I blame... the southern hemisphere.

[Catloaf]

Sink holes like that remind me of my Torah portion, where Korach and the Levites who rebelled against Moses where eaten alive by the earth along with all of their belongings.  At first I envisioned an earthquake and a rift opening up and then closing upon them, but this sounds equally if not more appropriate.

I wonder what the religious loonies would say that the Guatemalans did to deserve it.  Like how earthquakes and volcanoes are caused by women being too sexy as god gets distracted from holding the world together or something.

[Brentai]

They dug too greedily and too deep.

[Royal☭]

GO TO GERMANY

BUY A CORPSE

[Mothra]

This is the 2010 Commencement for Columbia University.  Skip to 38:37 in to be at the start of an amusing anecdote from the valedictorian's speech.

I have heard this anecdote word for word somewhere else, like six years back. No idea where, though.

[Fortinbras]

Yeah, that's the idea.  Stolen entirely from Patton Oswalt, the second case of somebody plagiarizing his shit in the space of like a week.