The way I used to try to justify it was that this is a real historical event and George [Lucas] is on Tatooine with his camera crew, we’re on our planets with our camera crew, and there’s filmmakers on other planets with their camera crews.

They only turn red after you boil them.

So, can we get them to put in an actual, working full-size AT-AT to walk around the perimeter of the park, you know, like an amusment park train?

You know what every armor documentary needs?

Oh heavens! Someone online called me a Nazi for having a different perspective than them. In the face of such compelling reason, surely I must reconsider my perspectives now.

Why do you think that reducing energy usage isn’t adaptation? It does not necessarily require starving half of humanity of energy.

Barring some incredible new carbon capture technology, the window for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius appears to have closed. That’s the stark conclusion of a report out in Nature today, which finds that the carbon reductions pledges penned into the Paris Agreement are ridiculously inadequate…

TOO SOON.

Marquez managed to get second in the race despite his qualifying headache, and fellow Honda rider Jack Miller took his first-career MotoGP win in a wild, rain-stricken race in which only 13 of the 21 riders finished.

Dammit, I hate being late to the discussion, because I feel I have the perfect solution: no opening Star Wars music, opening crawl... ENDING crawl.

I want to say I was disappointed since the entire episode was completely and utterly predictable from start to finish, from Dany’s dragons to the Vale’s cavalry to Ramsay’s dogs.

“I never buy none of that shit,” he said. “They take your credit-card numbers and give them to those Europeans. They steal money from your account. You look one day and $100 is gone. And the next day, and the next day. Europeans just steal your damn money.”*

Yeah, that’s nearly as disturbing as the story. Crazy people, I understand; Gawker employees, I often do not.

I was a grade-a moron to ever question Mustang drivers!

O/T, but not: yesterday while out riding my murdercycle, I parked the bike at a strip mall to grab some takeout. No sooner had I taken my helmet off when I heard a crunnnnch in the lot, a few rows behind me. The culprit? A black Mustang convertible backing out of a parking spot cut the corner too close and scraped off…

Alas, for all that I enjoyed about it, The Expanse had two problems that seriously undermined my enjoyment of it:

This. It’s ludicrous to claim it as an example of the triumph of diverse casting when its sole reason for existence is the pandering concept, “Let’s remake Ghostbusters... but with women!”

Looking the other way down the Strip:

Here’s why: Ducati has a dealer network where KTM doesn’t, and Ducati builds street bikes and racing bikes that KTM doesn’t.