Thank you! Empirical evidence curb stomps convoluted rationalization yet again.

That’s one hell of an assumption when you’re dealing with a government headed by Robert Mugabe.

So, I’m hoping somebody can help me understand something. A few people have pointed out to me that while the age of the universe is about 14 billion years, the distance to the cosmic horizon is not 14 billion lightyears, but 93 billion lightyears! That’s mind-blowing.

Thompson did the right thing the hard way when that ugliness went down.

“...And shit generally makes for a more compelling protagonist.” —Aristotle

Someone pointed that out as well and I’m still baffled by how that works. Is this because the photons we see from objects now 93 billion light years began to travel toward us before space had expanded that far? Am I way off on this?

Okay, I’m confused. I’m pretty sure I get that expansion can account for why matter can appear to have “moved” to a location faster than the speed of light because space actually got bigger, but would’t light from that matter still have to travel as photons from that location to us? Is there something I’m missing?

Hang on, I’m confused. Obviously, Jesus is beyond the observable universe. But, he doesn’t want us to masturbate? Dude and I have been doing Double Dutch Rudders together like since high school.

Oh yeah! This is dope!

I honestly think psychopaths are the single greatest threat to humanity. A charismatic psychopath, like Hitler et al, can be particularly devastating in their destruction. However, I think that, because of human agency, we have, not only the ability to resist people—even legions of people—with pathologically…

I kind of see what you’re saying, but when I see something like this it makes me think the opposite. It makes me explicitly aware that we do not occupy any kind of privileged place in the cosmos, and for no apparent reason. Despite this, the existentialist in me doesn’t embrace a nihilistic egoism. It makes me think…

I love this because it helps imagine the scale of the solar system—and, by extension, the Galaxy and universe. Think how long it takes to fly across the ocean, and then how fast the whole Earth zips by. Then think how long it takes to get to Jupiter—45 light minutes! And that unimaginably vast distance is barely a…

No. Duncan Sheik is giving it the same treatment he gave to Frank Wedekind’s The Spring Awakening.

♫ ♬ OOOH, LIFE IN THE HIVE PUCKERED UP MY NIGHT:

Political satire as explanation of existential cosmology: I think I need a cigarette.

Sammy, Brooklyn, don’t fight. You’re both losers.

If Buzz will provide the fists, I will personally drive him to each face that needs punching.

As someone who started at a community college (after barely graduating from high school) and finished with a terminal degree at NYU on a full ride, you should know that I am inexpressibly grateful that people like you exist in academia.

Beautiful; this makes me happy about my decision to finish grad school.

This pisses all over the fond summer memories of so many people. What’s up with the people ever 100 yards or so that look like their job is to “care for your safety?” This is an insult to the good name of the Mafia funded, multi-acre death trap that was Action Park. How do these monsters sleep at night?