If there’s an illegal immigration subplot, I’m gonna jump off a bridge...

You haven’t seen Do The Right Thing? (Inserts gif indicating surprise and suspicion)

And all of this no thanks whatsoever to unions apparently...

Not really related but anyone remember this jam?:

Here’s one for my current script: In silhouette, CATRINA STONE, early 30’s (or y’know, younger), whispers a silent prayer.

If we want a humane justice system, we also have to be prepared to make arrangements for inmate safety, even for the most despicable of people. Everyone knows who this guy is and what he did, and because of that I’m not surprised that would be a target. I mean, if people here think he’s going to be smuggled out of…

I hear you. By the accounts of all the experts who have a vested interest in more spending, we’re behind in pretty much everything. Of course, I do have detailed Red Dawn (the original, with the Sandinistas and Cubans) fantasies, so maybe I have a vested interest in being occupied.

PPP was solid. They didn’t get enough shine. Think I’d have to go with the 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover cover or I Got You or Fever, but this track is nice too. I think one of the guys did some stuff under the name Tiny Hearts recently.

74 is way too warm, especially if you have any direct sunlight entering your office windows. I’m with 68 on this one.

Crap. There goes my totally unauthorized web series adaptation...

While the facts of the killing haven’t been disputed, the whole “38 witnesses” angle is much more complex than first appears and has been disputed over the years:

I just hope that the generation of writers who do the “alien religion” thing start to retire and soon. Worked great during the DS9/Babylon 5 days but has turned me off since the late Battlestar seasons and pretty much killed this show after the first season. I just started watching to see how they would survive and…

I like this movie. Total guilty pleasure. Aside from the cliff-fighting scene in the second one, I actually find it superior.

I don’t know. It’s new religion. And we can never get away from ourselves. Send some ants, let them do their thing.

I think the point is that the vagaries and contradictions of Earth politics are actively discouraging the cooperation that is needed to make space exploration a priority. As evidenced by your reaction to a pretty benign statement on the part of the writer. Just that need to, you know, say that China is a Big Bad…

The farmers may have something of a point. There are issues with there not being correct incentives for efficient water use but as a recent New Yorker article pointed out that not all agricultural inefficiencies are totally bad: some of that “wasted” water refills aquifers, or runs back into the irrigation system to…

So caught up in their own racial binaries that they forget that there are a whole range of other skin colors, languages, and histories in the world.

I'm in the pro-AI camp. I don't think we are nearly as good at making decisions as we think we are. Plus I'd love to let a robot devise my workplace merit bonus policy, which was stuck in committee forever.

I see what you are trying to do rhetorically, but it sounds like you haven't actually watched an NBA game in 10 years.

I did. Was hoping to find a little more about the actual asteroid mining process, but I love the sociology of the Belter culture. It was tough to find in my library system, had to use my university credentials to interlibrary loan it. The thing that sucks is we have a crapload of great sci-fi being held in special…