The American Affordable Care Act is upheld, including it's individual mandate, by the Supreme Court of the United States in a 5-4 decision. Justice Roberts, the conservative Chief Justice was the surprising swing vote. The rest of the world may laugh at our lateness, and we still have a long way to go, but America is finally limping steadily ( Read more... )

Hey, did you hear? Ryan Reynolds is the new Connor Macleod. Vomitous.

I wandered briefly into Poirot/Hastings slash fic. I'll never be the same again.

..that Sylvester McCoy is stealing the movie. I've been reading that between the lines in a few places, including it being explicitly stated by Quint over at AICN. A couple of weeks ago, Elijah Wood made an appearance on Steven Colbert hinting at the same thing. Way to go Sylv! I'm very much looking forward to these two movies.

Well, kind of. ;)

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Stephen Fry will play the Master of Laketown in the Hobbit, and I do a little happy dance! By the way, have you seen the cast list for the new Torchwood series?

Elizabeth Sladen is gone, and I'm gutted. Frankly, I didn't even know she was sick. One of the best loved companions on Doctor Who, perhaps the actress that best understood and executed such a tricky (deceptively easy) role on television. Seeing her return to the franchise for the past few years, thirty years after she left the show, was such a ( Read more... )

Dangermouse has written a TNG novel. Who references? Maybe some jabs at Voyager?

It's me, I'm not dead! Yay! Had a great time last weekend seeing jblum, lordalius, and jvowles, among others. Thanks to jvowles for having us all over on Saturday. I got my first look at Outland, a pilot sitcom out of Australia which is my new favorite thing in the world. You can see the pilot
here.

On Tuesday, I then saw lordalius again as he came to town to stage manage what ( Read more... )