Never forget that blogging is a business. The incentives for successful blogging may not line up with those for other parts of life.

Need recommendations for good, brainy Sci-Fi movies that prominently feature AI and/or post-humans; bonus points if they are featured as non-villains, or as sympathetic villains. So like the Blade Runners, Ex Machina, are good. 2001 is good. 2036 Origins Unknown was in the right ballpark in terms of tone and…

I really loved Bob Bakker’s “Raptor Red” (which kicks off with a similar plot, but is about a Utahraptor rather than a T Rex), so I will definitely give this a shot!

Looking for a new spouse?

Are you saying he’ll have to wear a cone?

To the extent that West Wing was a tv-ized version of The American President, I feel like Mandy started out as an import of the Sydney Wade character, but it really wasn’t that kind of show, so she wound up stranded.

Are we just going to pretend that (as a kid) peeing in a secluded corner of a cold public pool was not a valuable kind of warmth?

Personally I prefer Aruglia.

That and taking a walk, which is sometimes an unfortunate combo.

So when he asks his wife to back him on something, is he calling in the Cavallari?

In the Kinja commenting system, stars are given out by two separate and wildly unequal groups: approved commenters, who can be easily read, and the greys, who lurk outside the gates. These are their comments.

When people ask why I don’t watch WWE anymore (no one asks me this), I tell them that the moment I stopped watching the then-WWF was when Doink beat the shit out of Crush with his fake broken arm. I don’t know why THAT particular moment was just a bit too far for me, but there we are.

SOME OF US RUN WARM OK?!?! Then again some of us are like twice his mass, so, I don’t know what his excuse is.

Yeah. I mean... way to hammer home the actual intent of the wall (and so many other policies). I kept expecting the camera to pan down to show literal jack-boots.

The comments in the article on Jews were exciting too. I hit reply like half a dozen times before I regained my senses and declined to feed the folks who can’t be assed to do 4 seconds of googling before amplifying some debunked Khazar conspiracy nonsense. I swear, I’m not Christian but some people just force me to…

For it to make sense, though, there would have to be some sizeable constituency that actually gives a damn about fiscal responsibility and the deficit. As far as firms like Gallup can tell, concern about the deficit has fallen something like 10 percentage points since 2011(without regard to party affiliation…

This seems like a dumb idea.

The issue I have with astrology is similar to the issue I have with how many people use Tarot. If you want something to act as a prompt to get you to do some inner-directed work, so that you have something to react to as a means of sorting out your feelings and opinions and such? Good, probably it works well for that.

Is Armond White still employed?

Apparently it happened in the same universe where UMBC’s 16-over-1 win also doesn’t rate a mention!