Yet you finish Lacy's book with no illusions about Levchin: This guy will succeed again, you're sure of it. In his quest for "world domination" -- yes, he has used those words -- Levchin, like Silicon Valley, is unstoppable.

World domination -- of webapp widgets? Aim low!

The good news is they offered him a job at their new Shanghai Research Center. The bad news is the pay is $1000 per month.

$1000 US dollars, or the equivalent of a $1000/month in Chinese Yuan? If it's the American salary, how much will that buy in China? If living expenses are really low, he might wind up making out pretty well in the bargain. The trouble will be negotiating a salary when he comes back.

Given Lewis's Christian agenda in Narnia, maybe it's appropriate that the human element is apparently so missing in this movie? In a reductive war of All-Good against All-Evil, those Christian standbys, poor little feckless Humanity is so easily lost in the mix.

The Christian "agenda" (which seems like an overly-condemning word to use) only really present in the first and the last books, and in The Magician's Nephew at the very end during the creations story (the apple, etc.) The rest of the books are straight up adventure stories. The 'lessons' that are written into the stories are fairly straightforward lessons about growing up, that miserable in-between existence as children start learning how to navigate through the world as adults.

Prince Caspian happens to be my favorite of the entire series, so I'm stupidly excited to see this. As to where all the people are -- they're not in Narnia at all. There are very few "people" in Narnia, being inhabited largely by talking animals, dwarves, tree nymphs, naiads, dryads, marsh-wiggles, retired stars (like the ones that shine in the sky, not the ones that get plastic surgery and show up on Celebrity Big Brother) and the like. Prince Caspian has the *most* people out of all of the books, and its pretty much just the Pevensie children, Prince Caspian, his uncle, and very briefly the uncle's two henchmen.

So what should the consequences of breaking the terms of service be? Is there a lesser punishment here she should be subject to for this specific aspect of the crime?

Violating the terms of service of a contract is *not* a crime. It is a civil offense; this prosecution is attempting to magically turn civil law into criminal law.

Certainly I am sure you love one another -- however, you can't EVER be married (in the eyes of the vast majority of Americans and people around the world) because marriage is solely a relationship between a man and a woman, and most of us want it to stay that way.

Why?

especially in lower grades, elementary schools are mostly under the employ of women, and mostly unintentionally, create an atmosphere that is difficult for boys to succeed in

Women have been the majority of primary schoolteachers and small children have been instructed in penmanship for what, the last 100 years? The menfolk of the previous three generations learned to write under female tutelage and seem to be doing OK for themselves.

What dramatic change has happened in the last 10 years or so that would account for a 'crisis'?

Actually, studies are pointing that you can catch obesity--I remember reading about a study where it was shown that clusters of people tend to be obese. Not sure what the thinking behind that was.

It was correlative, not causative. It turned out to be an illustration of memetics, not physical "transmission" of obesity. Close friends and associates tended be heavy or thin fairly equally within their groups, even when those relationships extended beyond geographical location (i.e. best friends who lived 1000 miles apart tended to be equally slender or heavy, even if the people immediately around them were the opposite.) The premise seems reasonable, although the exploitative headlines surrounding it were totally off the wall; people of like minds and like habits tend to cluster together, and reinforce those habits among each other.

The very fact that McCain will not release his psychiatric records only emphasizes his need to hide them.

Wanting to keep the contents of therapy or counseling sessions private is not the same as "need[ing] to hide" something. I don't "need to hide" the records of my counseling sessions from ten years ago, but I sure as hell don't want you reading them either. As long as I can function in the world and do my job, what goes on in the depths of my head and heart is nobody's business.

What would Indy have really eaten?

Dinty Moore beef stew (probably still in the can) in his bachelor and absent-minded professor academic life, and monkey brains, German sausages, tabouleh, dates, pomegranate, Viennese pastries, linguine and a glass of prosecco, yak, and whatever other local food is available in his maverick archaeologist life.

And just round after round of shots, if he's with Marian.

the next time we see a mother whip out her breasts to fed her baby in public

Every time someone uses that ridiculous phrase to describe nursing in a public place, I always wonder if it comes with a sound effect, like a whip cracking or a quick-draw in an old cowboy movie.

In my experience, though, the breasts pretty much stay put; the action has been the lifting a shirt or unbuttoning the top of a blouse, both of which are very quiet and not particularly noticeable unless you are already staring at them.