Hippopoctopus

You mentioned that the Ron Paul campaign had paid his daughter $16k over 5 years. Why would people expose themselves to such risk for such small potatoes? If someone were embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars I could see someone arguing the risk was worth is, but for ~$3k/yr?

Would love to see what a film critic's note on a movie look like...

Just to nail this one down, is "Kloran" a play on the words Klan and the Koran, or is there some other less obvious origin?

Oh, man, wish I had you in high school! How many parental complaints do you anticipate receiving?

Part of controlling the population is limiting the media (fictional and non-fictional) they have access to. It's not cool, but it's certainly understandable for an authoritarian government.