It was a pain in the ass, but I definitely miss hurling my brown/green/clear bottles into huge containers.

It's pretty bad if you look past the simple numbers and toward the unspoken but heavily implied.

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Definitely running wild everywhere. I feel so bad for kids who have everything scheduled and monitored and helicoptered all day every day. I miss the notion that you could just be Elsewhere and get back when you were good and damned ready. (Just so you understand, the tech itself isn't the problem, though.)

Does this mean that every planet has a Scotland?

And for some Friday night fun, let's watch Star Trek meets SNL's TV Funhouse.

No. Americans can always be easily pushed into supporting a war. They just really hate that last war from a decade ago.

Honestly, no. The left has, if anything, moderated and the right has moved further right.

That's definitely true of people on the right and Fox News, but is that really true of people on the left? Are people on the left really more extreme than leftists in the 1960s or even the 1920s? Which national political figures today would you say are to the left of Eugene Debs?

An old one that goes back to before (probably) any of us here were born is the dashboard of a car. It goes back to an actual board on a carriage that protected the riders from mud and dirt kicked up, or dashed, by the horses.

Rewind. Somehow "Fast Backwards" hasn't caught on.

Hoist on his own petard.

This looks like a Nazgul's embarrassing high school picture.

I think that's all a false dichotomy. We should be researching space AND the deep oceans. They're both important. It's like saying biologists should study plants instead of animals, or bacteria instead of viruses.

I might also suggest...

Once I figured out all the characters were all straight, I stopped reading.

Aw, fnord.