In the event that anyone needs furry animal soothing.

See, I noticed the comic excerpt before the cams, and really, I'm a Nightcrawler kind of a girl.

Since shooting webs is the only one of his powers that real spiders actually have, I consider the organic webshooters an improvement. t /heretic

t sits in the "heretic" corner with Jessica

(I do a lot of sitting in corners, apparently)

(I also nod my head up and down from time to time)

(Somebody stop me before I kill again)

Since shooting webs is the only one of his powers that real spiders actually have, I consider the organic webshooters an improvement.

I'm all geeky about being faithful to the comic source, though there *is* a Spidey title (Spider-Man 2025, I think) where his webshooters are organic.

And my god, could I *be* a bigger dork?

(Sits with Sean and baps him in the head.)

Quit it, you're not alone.

Oh, and plus, I always liked how Peter designing the webshooters showed off his large science brain.

Since shooting webs is the only one of his powers that real spiders actually have

Climbing walls doesn't count?

Climbing walls doesn't count?

Well...it's more that none of his powers could all have come from the same spider. Like, hunting spiders can jump around like Spider-Man does, but they can't climb walls. And there's another kind that can climb walls, but doesn't jump. Superstrength and "spider sense" are both things ants do, but not spiders.

(And I suppose that the movie's updating "radioactive" to "genetically engineered" solves all of those issues, but still.)

More Tom Delay on Terri Schiavo:

"It is more than just Terri Schiavo. This is a critical issue for people in this position, and it is also a critical issue to fight that fight for life, whether it be euthanasia or abortion. I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, one thing God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what's going on in America. That Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks. I mean, in America that's going to happen if we don't win this fight."

"And so it's bigger than any one of us, and we have to do everything that is in our power to save Terri Schiavo and anybody else that may be in this kind of position, and let me just finish with this:"

"This is exactly the kind of issue that's going on in America, that attacks against the conservative moment, against me and against many others. The point is, the other side has figured out how to win and to defeat the conservative movement, and that is to go after people personally, charge them with frivolous charges, link up with all these do-gooder organizations funded by George Soros, and then get the national media on their side. That whole syndicate that they have going on right now is for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to destroy the conservative movement. It is to destroy conservative leaders, and not just in elected office, but leading. I mean, Ed Feulner, of the Heritage Foundation today was under attack in the National Journal. This is a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in. And you need to look at this, and what's going on and participate in fighting back"

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Thanks, Tom DeLay, for ruining a perfectly good lunch digestion.