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Mar 25, 2015

Moms and their teenage daughters will never understand each other; the gulf is just too great to cross. That is, unless you have a magic lady at a Chinese restaurant. With her fortune cookies you can jump right across that gulf, but along the way you'll have a pretty Freaky Friday.

That's what happens in the 2003...


Mar 19, 2015

Going Home is a novel about a prepper who is exactly right about everything. It is an argument ad absurdum to show just how wrong preppers are in real life.

Not that there's anything wrong with gear hoarders per se, though the book also makes them out to be just as sexist, racist, violent, and paranoid as their critics...


Mar 11, 2015

Mainstream viewers claim Ancient Aliens is a cynical ploy by the History Channel to capitalize on crazy conspiracy theorists. But could it actually be a documentary uncovering the greatest secrets in the history of the earth, namely that all ancient civilizations were visited by aliens who left only oblique clues about...


Mar 5, 2015

Despite its status as one of the seminal YA series of our generation, all three of us managed to miss Animorphs when we were young. Fortunately sponsor Anna was able to set us straight by forcing us to read book #1: The Invasion and book #26: The Attack. And now we're stuck as eagles for the rest of our lives.

It's a...