Loony #2 (Trump) is a narcissist. Loony #1 (Carson) is delusional.

I was taking the Philadelphia subway with some classmates when I went to Drexel University in the late 1980s. So we’re in a line marching into the turnstile when a black man walks up and starts shaking peoples’ hands, one by one, down the entire row.

I dunno, I think they’re starting to reach a bit. I mean, ‘usually reasonable’? That doesn’t apply to Trump at all.

Fire and forget weapons are great...until one gets turned around and locks onto the ship that fired it. Then the military brass starts retiring the damn things ASAP.

Doesn’t seem to work. Another bit of weirdness in my Windows 10 installation.

I find Cortana to be useless. All she does for me is serve as a speech-to-BingSearch tool. I’m guessing that she’s more useful if you have a Windows phone and are wrapped up in the Windows ecosystem.

I deleted all the tiles, but the start menu didn’t decrease in size. It comes up with the context menus on the left next to a big, gray, empty space eating up a third of my screen.

I wonder how many bug fixes are in this patch. I’m seeing some weird happenings with Windows 10. Like sometimes drivers won’t be installed on bootup for my Wacom tablet, or sometimes the ‘date modified’ on a document I just edited is wrong. Nothing gamebreaking, but I’m rebooting a lot in hopes that the next time it…

I want to visit Cincinnati and find thousands of turkey corpses littered across the ground.

I love hearing stories about people nobody has ever heard of but who turn out to be utter legends. I’ll remember Richard Grupe. (His asshole son, not so much.) Thanks for telling us about him.

The counterargument to being called racist and sexist is to repeat calmly *why* the story is bad. If you can make your arguments in a civil tone and with objective proof, no one can call you racist or sexist, and you can shut down those who do.

The B wing is awkward and makes no sense but it’s one of the coolest looking spaceships ever.

So they did have TIE droids. (End of last row.) Why weren’t they all droids? How was it more efficient and more effective to put human beings in these cramped death machines?

The Star Wars universe has antigravity and a lot of other woo-woo physics tricks. I’m sure they have inertial dampeners that compensate for an off-balanced ship structure. If they can play with their ships’ mass by flicking a switch, they can put the engines anywhere.

I always figured (without any knowledge of the ‘official’ blueprints) that the big wings were the ion engines. Ion thrust is proportional to the area of your emitters, but for maneuverability the emitting surfaces would be on the edge of those wings. As engines, those wings would emit a lot of ions in any x or z…

The embarrassing secret about the human race is that the very best among us, our uber-competent heroes and divinely-inspired leaders, are only a teensy bit better than the average joe. And the average joe sucks in every way imaginable.

Ah, but sorcerers rely on charisma, not intelligence, to cast their spells. (At least, in the last edition that I played.)

A rhino-sized house cat would kill you and everyone you care about. Just for fun.

Can we just agree on some uncomfortable truths?

The answer could be ‘everybody’, because it is contributing to global climate change. We may not die out for another hundred years, but little environmental catastrophes like this are the cause. They add up.