Don't forget about Insurrection as well.

Okay, can someone explain what was up with the end of that show? To this day I'm a little fuzzy about what the last 10 minutes of the last episode mean.

It's kind of a brutal show that way. Lots of people dealing with the *terrible* things they did in the past. Tucker ended up going insane, and his ending was, IMO, as sad the Chimera episode was.

I'm digging some of the piercings as well. Cool idea, and it's a shame we haven't seen anything like that before.

It's a Harvard project, but hosted by BYU in Utah.

Heh. Your level of knowledge here makes me feel like I don't have much to contribute. But I'll share a story anyway.

But using a specific word to articulate a specific idea is fine.

That's . . . a really good summary.

I don't really agree with that. There's a difference between using a wide vernacular of words and writing incoherent prose. The first is not a problem, the second is.

It's curious to me how we developed this "scholarly voice" of impenetrable prose. Part of it seems to stem from 19th century writings, but the cynic in me suspect that a good part had to do more with people trying to sound like they were smart than anything else.

Fair point.

You forgot something.

Here's the real question: can the tentacles sense that I'm about to eat them?

Well, Bowie period. I'll watching anything that has him in it. But yes, there was a lot of his, ahem, considerable bulge.

If you're using words which mean very specific things, like "Prussian Blue" or "confirmation bias," then yes, you're right. But when you start saying things like this:

Yeah . . . I could go on about the silliness that international political economy scholars or literary critics fall into (ever read Stanley Fish?). Though I feel like it's gotten better over the past few decades; I don't run into any where near the number of indecipherable publications that you found in the 80s.

Hear hear!

Okay, can someone please explain to me why I love this movie so much?

You're haven't read much into civil rights history, have you?