I'm already bored with the woobification of Kylo Ren (that's not a spoiler -- water is wet, bears shit in the woods, villains are woobified), but I'm very impressed with Adam Driver's work in playing him.

And yesterday I ran across this article that makes it apparent that's just the beginning of his impressive. (It's a reprint of an article that ( Read more... )

Via seldear, a post-9/11 story I don't think I'd run across before.

As America looked inward in the days, weeks and months after September 11, 2001, others around the world made extraordinary gestures toward the United States. 
We were all so focused on ourselves - understandably so - that many probably missed the fact that Iran’s President Mohammad ( Read more... )