I love this site, and anything I can do to help make it a little bit better I'm happy to do. This includes fighting to the death to defend her honor and throwing myself on trollgrenades. I'm already followed by several of the sub-blogs (suckers! (just kidding, love ya, Mika!) ) and would love to be more involved…

You know this isn't Facebook, right?

Do the opinions of a doctoral student really merit this much media? I can go pick out an old man-made pile of stones and make up an origin story too. I'm not quite throwing the bullshit flag, but my normal io9 Article Accuracy Confidence has been reduced more than a few sigma.

Nearly word for word what I came here to say. Maybe would have added 'and acting' to your incredibly accurate statement.

beautiful and simple. Cool.

The 3 of Spades is marked, so the "he went down 1 street, 2 streets.." thing is his way to get back to the 3 of Spades, which marks the spot he left off his story. Still pretty fun.

I did, and loved it- but that isn't exactly a regular invasion force. I'm interested to know what landing points were considered most probable, and how we intended to defend. I assume the two most probable are a landing in mexico or canada and then invading from there. I can't imagine any US city would make a…

Of course this brings to mind Red Dawn and some of the plot points there- but does anybody know of any actual modern homeland defense plans? Say, a plan to defend against an incursion from the southwest, in case Mexico accepts the terms of the next Zimmerman Telegram? Google is all-nuclear on this subject- I'm more…

You bet. Let me just polish up the cold fusion reactor in my garage and we will go take care of that.

I'm sure you already know all about it, but Dennis Mersereau over at The Vane catches a tremendous amount of crap for consistently swatting down chemtrailers. I think he gets a thrill from it though-can't blame him- blasting the vinegar spritzers in a public space has got to be a good bit of fun!

I always wanted to meet someone from this team! Hi, how ya doin? :)

Between you and me, you were the only one who thought that was disrespectful. Also- if you panic over *anything* you read on Facebook or Twitter, you're doing it wrong. Mild concern is allowed while you verify facts, then, if the situation warrants it- please panic your heart out. I am a solid endorser of panic- it…

In trying to come up with some fun versions of your thought experiment I accidentally hit upon a great band name: Dr. Boomtown and the Rockwrights

Laurel- I stayed a little late at work just to read this through- seriously loving the series. I'll have more intelligent questions later, but for now- what is that little gear pack in the last pic?

And in one fell swoop, you've just described what it's like to work for DA Civilians as well. Oh the stories I have...the stories...

Thats pretty good CGI of Robert Redford making a mistake.

Thanks for the spot-on diagnosis, HyperRighteousPerson- you sure got me where it hurts. I'm curious though..does someone pay you to audit the internet for absurd PCness, or is that a quest you undertook all on your own?

I've been in this 'river' 5 or 6 times and have to say that the cops and Tube staff do a pretty damn good job of getting people out of Wembley.

Right. Because wishing these 6 women did more with their lives than become Early and Often Breeders for the family line is now somehow un-PC? Get over yourself.

All these women were born, raised, and had children in the 20th century. So yeah, applying 20th century mentality to them would seem to fit.