Our Children Shouldn't Be Messengers Of HateSource:
In military warfare, children are victims. In ideological warfare, children are victims. Regardless of which side of the religious and socio-political spectrum a child's parent or guardian is on, that child is innocent. Children are not billboards for hatred, malice and lies.

In all honesty, this is just a very rough draft of some of my ideas and would like some feed back. Thank you.
[1] Talia al Ghul.
"Batman: Arkham Asylum" AnnouncedSource: Kotaku
The lack of a "Dark Knight" game be damned; Eidos apparently has their own Batman game in the works, touting gameplay based on the "detective" aspect of Batman and a "Bioshock-like" atmosphere, as well as a story by long-time Batman writer Paul Dini and art by the guys at Wildsto …
Saint Batman? Source: National Post
An interesting and thought-provoking column on the philosophical aspects of The Dark Knight from a religious perspective.

Just when you think you have seen the greatest comic book hero movie of all time, it gets displaced soon enough which makes you pause and say, "I thought I've seen it all…."The recent Batman tale elicits such a reaction it is so philosophically rich thanks to….the chara …

(There will be spoilers ahead, so if you have not yet seen the movie, please do not proceed any further.)
Game Theory and The Dark KnightSource: ScienceBlogs
In the final battle the Joker has rigged two ferries carrying people out of Manhattan to explode. One ferry carries mostly civilians with a substantial National Guard presence. The other ferry contains large numbers of prison inmates and some guards.

There are a million reviews of Nolan's latest offering in his reimagined Batman movie series, The Dark Knight. You can find a lot of them here, go read them. I can summarize, though: You should see this film. There, that's out of the way.

One has to imagine that somewhere in the back of Christopher Nolan's mind, there is a little voice that is absolutely freaking out right now.

Let me begin by saying that I am not a Batman fan. I think he is corporate criminal who focuses on street crime while Bruce Wayne's "Wayne Enterprises" acts as an international hi-tech arms dealer.

Going to the movies nowadays is such a hassle with high ticket prices, cell phone interruptions, and the usual people talking loudly, that it takes a special movie to make me want to go through all of that anymore.
Heath Ledger Awesome as Joker in Dark KnightSource: IMDb
Heath ledger was certainly one of our most promising actors. Unfortunately he will no longer be with us. The link is to Cinemark's previews of Batman, Dark Knight. Ledger plays the Joker, the ultimate evil in anarchy.
THE DARK KNIGHT poster revealed!Source: aintitcool.com
A whole bunch of hard snooping geeks have been being run all over a bunch of cities today - asked to go to addresses and pick up something for a Robin Banks "Robbing Banks" - turns out it was a cake with a phone number....

I remember when I was a young lad back in the seventies and early eightees. My entire world revolved around 2 things: Sports and Superheroes. The latter has always completely fascinated me.

I was sitting next to my four-year-old son at the dinner table the other night and posed, what I thought, was a difficult question for the boy to answer. I swallowed my food and said, "O.K. Matthew, who wins in a fight between Batman and Superman?"
Ledger's Joker to take on BatmanSource: BBC News
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger will play The Joker in the next Batman film, titled The Dark Knight, film studio Warner Brothers has announced.
Heath Ledger Is The JokerSource: themovieblog.com
Supposedly announced at today's ComicCon, I'm still slightly skeptical. If accurate, though...