Oh, and Trollhunter!

Zombeavers is amazing!

Probably nobody will concur with me, and I’m not even sure it’s still there, but: Zombeavers is pretty friggin’ great as long as you understand what you’re getting. Someone else recommended it, but I recently watched It Follows, and it’s pretty good.

Yes, ideas are dangerous. Most of the ideas put forth by the current administration are literally dangerous to the degree of loss of 10s of thousands of human, American lives. What ought a good man do when faced with these obvious evils? Given that change is rarely resultant less the credible threat of violence…

Right?! WTH?

Specifically white rice, right? For sure not brown rice, or — heavens forfend — wild rice. Shortest, stubbiest grain, tho.

Also, that water thing: not a joke about drowning. You can drink too much water and suffer toxicity of it.

Also, you’re from Pittsburgh? With a surname like Skwarecki? You don’t say... :-)

Ms. Skwarecki, replying to you in response to icarefortheplanet below. Here’s a brief discussion of atmosphere, given a microcosmic example: submarines. Submarines operate as closed systems, unless we’re at periscope depth or surface and our ventilation systems are aligned to bring external atmosphere aboard (and…

I feel like it may have gone better had you worn your tail...

I used to regularly interface with my Chiefs and ensure face-to-face with my most junior sailors that they were aware of WIC and SNAP and that they most likely qualified for assistance.

Absolutely a fair point, up to and including those on the African continent capturing, enslaving, and trafficking human beings — and silence is/was complicity on the part of every colonist and early American that did or said nothing.

I’m pretty sure he’d already gone through his Commissioning ceremony and was a Second Lieutenant. The Lt. Col. that headed up the Bowie State ROTC corps spoke at the memorial last night.

“...the North didn’t have the agricultural land for slavery.” Um... have you been to Pennsylvania? New York? Ohio? While the North may not have been entirely enlightened, there is a reason that is was a destination on the Underground Railroad, and a haven for escaped slaves. Please do not forget that there was an…

Not going to belittle your experiences, but I live a little north of Bowie, and Second Lieutenant Collins has been all over our media coverage — despite the Manchester bombing. Granted, I listen almost exclusively to WAMU (NPR), but the incident is provoking the outrage and sorrow that it rightfully should.

It’s not murder if they’re domestic enemies of the Constitution... or general human decency. To paraphrase Killer Mike (I think): pretty sure Nazis are still on my grandfathers’ “fuck up on sight” list.

Somewhat ironic in that wild animals DO have the most common human qualities: they’re territorial, suspicious of outsiders, potentially vicious, and driven by hunger, a desire to procreate, and scarcity of resources. Bright side? They’re not often duplicitous, so what you see is what you get — so they’re generally…

*misappropriate the memory of the Founding Fathers, not having read the majority of their works or source materials.

Sure, I made a sweeping generalization in a fairly hyperbolic effort to point out that I’m not a fan of derisive humour at the expense of the valuation of my intelligence or education, or those of my fellows. Apparently you are. We’re different people, and that’s okay — but from my perspective the show continues to…

Going to disagree... any self-respecting “nerd” with any measure of fandom, a general curiosity about science and the natural world, and a solid education should find a program that does nothing but mock him/her and his/her interests to be offensive. Sorry, not sorry. Penny is cute AF, tho, so, you know... bewbs. Like…