We should totally NOT count kids because they are unable to participate in our democracy.

You are fundamentally mistaken about the nature of the NRA and its interests. The NRA will do its best to discredit and suppress any research that does not support its ideology and goals.

From the NRA perspective, the only permissible solution to gun violence is more guns. The NRA used their muscle in the late 1990s to squelch research on gun violence prevention, and their efforts have been remarkably successful. Even setting aside their extensive and increasingly shrill campaign to destroy political…

It is criminal how badly Anderson has been treated by the X-Files. They didn’t deserve her. (But fans did, of course :)

It’s a bore. Keep your finger on the FF key.

I was one of the people who despised Blade Runner when it first came out. Harrison Ford looked and sounded like he wanted to be anywhere else but on that movie set. And it sounded like he rehearsed the voiceover like maybe once before monotoning it into the mic. I hated Vangelis’ cheap ripoff of Tangerine Dream. Sean…

I haven’t watched anything beyond the first 30 minutes of the first half of this season. The bits and pieces I’ve read about the season have me wondering whether any of it is worth watching. Should I just give up now and free up the space on my DVR?

I got my current job with the assistance of a headhunter who saw me on LinkedIn.

I have an older phone (Samsung Galaxy S5) and I find Waze to be prohibitively slow to start up and find a route. Not that Google Maps is a speedster.

I think I’ve read it twice and I still don’t understand it. Consider Phlebas is much more straightforward. FWIW, Player of Games would have been a more practical starting place than Consider Phlebas because it’s much more limited in scope, but I’d be more than happy to see what they can do with Consider Phlebas.

What you should do with this information depends on whether the words/phrases continue to belittle and cause offense to others. I’m skeptical about “No Can Do” and “Long Time No See” and “Bugger” (at least with respect to Bulgarians).

I thought it was very odd when they made that remark about no other skier having a chance at the podium. That’s a pronouncement you can make when competitors are statistically eliminated from a multi-part event, but it makes no sense in a single-run event like the Super-G. It was stupid on NBC’s part, and I hope they…

I didn’t say it was going to be bad, and I didn’t warn anybody away from watching it. But, seriously, why?

Why? Seriously why? It was a cute show for a season or so, and the cast was very enjoyable, but it was a piffle. The best things about the show were that instant that Max pointed up to the sky to indicate where he’s from and Dido. Especially Dido.

No, it’s not because nobody makes ’em like they used to; it’s because, as is the case with pretty much everything in life, we’re still beholden to the things that shaped us as teenagers.

Politically, it makes no difference. Paying people off, divorcing his wives, using “locker room talk,” surprising young women in their dressing rooms, attacking minorities, calling immigrants murderers and rapists — these are just things that DT does. If you voted for him, you knew this, and if you voted against him,…

I think they had too little confidence in their own judgment to forgo picking up the highest-rated player still available in the draft. To them, it was too big a risk that their choice would flop and Ball would prosper.

Like everybody else in the league, the Bills could have picked up SuperBowl veteran Colin Kaepernick for cheap. But no, as Dave Zirin says, “The NFL Chose to Tank Its Season Rather Than Sign Colin Kaepernick.” Instead, we got to watch Tyrod Taylor struggle to move the ball and Nathan Peterman struggle to hold onto the…

See Dave Zirin’s “The NFL Chose to Tank Its Season Rather Than Sign Colin Kaepernick: Billion dollar teams choosing to fail rather than sign Kaepernick is a scandal for reasons beyond wins and losses.” CK is no superman (ha ha), but is he worth less than Nathan Peterman, for Pete’s sake?

Cut the chip designers some slack. It apparently took more than 20 years — from the early 1990s to 2017 — to discover that vulnerabilities in the speculative execution logic could be exploited to provide access to private data. It seems likely that this resulted from a failure of imagination in the 1990s with regard…