A head, two arms, eyes, nose, ears, muscles...
I don't usually do the link-pimping thing here (Yuletide recs and random webseries links aside... okay I'm lying. I totally pimp things. I just feel weird pimping non-fannish things).
But anyway... those among you who are of the comics-geeky and/or semantics-geeky persuasion might get a kick out of the wonderfully philosophical mire brought up in this week's Radiolab, in which trade lawyers try to convince the US government that the X-Men are not human for tax reasons, and everyone is forced to question what it means to be human. It's rather deliciously meta. And I'm not sure I've heard mention of this nonsense, though it seems like exactly the sort of thing people like me would latch on to and pontificate about. (Or maybe that's just me... I do like pontification, philosophical questions, and government and corporate absurdity manifesting itself in the legal system... and super heroes.)
(I think it's been a while since I last mentioned how much I love Radiolab. Also, the Christmas Freud story in this week's This American Life is rather awesome, just in case you didn't know.)
But anyway... those among you who are of the comics-geeky and/or semantics-geeky persuasion might get a kick out of the wonderfully philosophical mire brought up in this week's Radiolab, in which trade lawyers try to convince the US government that the X-Men are not human for tax reasons, and everyone is forced to question what it means to be human. It's rather deliciously meta. And I'm not sure I've heard mention of this nonsense, though it seems like exactly the sort of thing people like me would latch on to and pontificate about. (Or maybe that's just me... I do like pontification, philosophical questions, and government and corporate absurdity manifesting itself in the legal system... and super heroes.)
(I think it's been a while since I last mentioned how much I love Radiolab. Also, the Christmas Freud story in this week's This American Life is rather awesome, just in case you didn't know.)