2015 is shaping up to unleash some surefire Hollywood blockbusters on us, and the knockoff film producers of the world are wasting no time, energy, or thought in their rush to cash in.
Costume companies are mercilessly pushing for the Halloweenization of Christmas, transmuting every possible aspect of the holiday into an accidentally frightening pile of terror garbage.
In this era of large corporations putting their online reputation in the hands of any intern who can remember the Twitter password, stumbling ass backwards into controversy is the rule, not the exception.
It turns out that a lot of the stuff that defines the modern battlefield has been around in some form for a lot longer than we think, thanks to murderous geniuses who were decades or centuries ahead of their time.