This RadioLab short on the definition of mutants (and tax laws) is extremely awesome.
I still think it was my early love of The X-Men as much as anything else that set the stage for my flagrant liberalism. No regrets on being a comic book nerd here.
Of course, these days I’ve turned into much more of a Batman and Spider-Man fan. More Spider-Man, really. Not that my living in New York and scraping by in the media world has any correlation with Peter Parker or anything…