Actually, I always bet on how long it will take an asswipe like you to show up in a thread.

Thanks very much for the Turtledove short story.

So let’s see. Extraterrestrials are smart enough to travel a gazillion miles to visit the Earth, but too stupid to land in an open space, like say a football stadium and announce, “Hey morons, here we are!”

This was very well done! Kudos to all involved.

I absolutely see your point, but I kinda liked the episode. A few things. Moffat expands on the Who canon in an offhand manner: what would it take to actually execute a Time Lord, and what besides two hearts makes a Time Lord physically different from other beings. And he comments on other SF ideas, here the…

Cool. I never saw the movies in the original series. I look forward to avoiding the reboot.

If the movie is as bad as I fear, it will self-boycott.

It is misguided and insulting that Depp would be allowed to collaborate on the script. It’s pointless to complain about the sexism or lack of representation since this is only about Depp’s ego. What was originally the supporting character in a light, fun film, now has become the putrid center of attention in a lame…

What is hurtful is to have a unreconstructed Confederate as Attorney General of the United States, and a racist president. And people like Cornell West were instrumental in bringing about this result.

Sorry. Cornell West is a betrayer of black people. Anyone who did not vote for Clinton over Trump, who sat out, who waited in vain for Jill Stein, or who noodles out pointless fantasies that “Brother Bernie would have won” is rooting for the extermination of black people and other people of color.

Yep. Thanks for the reminder.

Even incremental developments can lead to products that are immensely satisfying or useful.

Of course, casting an actor in more than one role was something that audiences simply accepted. There is some evidence that the same actor played the Fool and Cordelia in “King Lear” when it was first brought to the stage.

The Albee Foundation is making a big deal about a character being blonde and blue eyed. But I wouldn’t care if the character were a dark haired, dark eyed Jewish person or Muslim.

Great to hear about the early positive reviews. The movie was already buckling under the burden of excessive cultural expectation (nobody ever cared about Tony Stark’s under arm hair) and fear that it would be another crappy DC movie, or might be minimized and dismissed as a chick flick.

The characters are white. Actors come in all colors. BFD. Jewish actors have probably played Nazis in plays and in films, and the world did not come to an end.

Oh, my little huckleberry. The way you cling to the past. For you, it’s perpetual disappointment.

Wow. You must save non sequiturs the way that a squirrel hides away nuts.

Going to small claims court is not trying to jail a woman for not being a perfect date. It does look like he went too far, and there is no reason this crap should be a news story. But I don’t know how rude the woman was, if she was rude at all. But the simplest thing is that these two should have talked to each…

Interesting that the princess is 25, but some of the royal males are 50 plus. Not too smart if they don’t revise the rules to allow women to take the throne.