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I'd give it gas bullets and a short range taser blast thing. Hang on a sec...

Springsteen fans might wanna try the Gaslight Anthem (if you haven't already!). Kinda Springsteen filtered through the Clash .....and MUCH the better for it IMHO!

ME; Bad religion and the Alkaline Trio mostly. With a bit of Chet Baker for a change of mood on those late dark nights.

What did you reckon to The Dissent of Man?

The attractive German barmaid in my local told me yesterday that Prometheus was very bad because it was a 'creationist' film.

I see her point.  The film was predicated on an essentially creationist idea, i.e. that humanity is special and couldn't possibly have evolved naturally- there's a single token objection from the disposable geologist dude, but other than that every character in the film takes it as a given.

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Then there's the method the engineers use to seed life.  Either the dissolved guy at the start provided the constituent molecules to kick off all life, and, millions of years later, one of the resultant species (humans) just happens to be (as near as dammit) exactly the same as the engineers, which is a gross miscomprehension of how evolution works.  Or the dissolved dude somehow creates humans straight away, in which case why do humans apparently have a shared lineage with every single other species on the planet if they came from a completely external source.
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The junk biology wouldn't annoy me at all if it was just a schlocky sci-fi B-movie, but Prometheus had pretensions of being something much deeper, and the nuts-and-bolts of the plot were just too bad to support them- ST Voyager Threshold levels of bad.

Um, Goodnight Kiss, one of Garth Ennis's slightly less awful Dredd stories?  In which case the long haired guy wasn't the leader of the cult (mutant Lone-ranger emulators) but an assassin hired to kill Dredd for some reason or other.

Easily America I reckon.  That's the one my ex-social-worker, non-comic-reading mum read and enjoyed.  After that, I'd say The Pit, very self-contained and a brilliant story.

This Guardian interview rather sums up why I view him as being the last president who was actually a decent human being by quite some margin, as well as the last one whose Christianity actually seemed to make him a better person.

On Reagan, can't remember where I found this but it sums up my feelings...