I'm a professor, so I can relate to what he/she is thinking, though I try not to tell students how they compare to their classmates.

That's kind of a deep cut for us science nerds. Care to explain?

Godwin's Law says that once an online argument inevitably makes comparisons to Nazi Germany, the conversation is over. But these days, it seems like that's where the conversation needs to *start*.

In South Carolina, Trump got 33% of evangelical voters, and 30% of non-evangelicals. They really are that stupid.
http://www.cnn.com/election…

That was 2000, unless I'm misunderstanding your point. (Nader ran in 2004 too, but nobody cared.)

Looks like their data is all comparing how bad transit is compared to driving in each city. So DC wins because driving is just *so* much worse.

The explanation given in the book was that they didn't have time to design a soft-lander system that would work with the Chinese hardware: much easier to just launch a dumb shipping container on a trajectory that matches the Hermes.

I have the same problem with Rachel Bloom, Lonely Island, Ylvis, and most of the rest of the Youtube parody song folks: they get a great idea for a song that carries them through the first verse, then have no idea where to take it from there. I find myself bailing out at the 1:00 mark almost every time.

We live in an era of great TV, but we *really* live in an era of fantastic title sequences. Even awful shows have great title work, and the good ones are just amazing.

I know this is gonna be an unpopular opinion, I've always thought that "The Body" was the high point right before the cliff. All the fun got sucked out of the show after that, leaving nothing but a melodramatic corpse. I blame Marti Noxon for this.

Clinton takes Nevada in a narrow victory

It's hard to remember all those rules they taught you in school about where to use a period vs a comma vs colon vs semicolon. If all you use is ellipses, you don't have to worry about any of that.

Here's a fun article from 2013, in which he criticizes Republicans who want to compromise on immigration, then turns around and says we need more European immigrants.

Are you kidding? His average grade this season has been a B+, and he gave two A's early on. If anything he's been too generous.

Right, but the point is that a millionaire isn't a rich person in today's society: $50k/year is the *median* household income.

Oh my god, what a quote.

the two biggest things that hurt the "Trump as Fascist" allegory are his seeming lack of belief in war for its own sake, his tolerance of modernism

Jamelle Bouie has an essay that lines Trump up against Eco's definition of fascism:

being a grown ass man

People tend to default to "the old-timey way of doing things is better and more energy efficient, even if it costs more." Which is usually bullshit: most of the time it costs more because it's wasteful. It just *looks* nicer because you don't have 100 million people all trying to do it that way.