Yes, but now her brand of fiscal “management” can lose us millions of taxpayer dollars.  

No to diminish the impact upon students of color, but her racist attitude will also do damage to the white students in her classroom, too. It won’t be the direct sort of damage that she will be doing to the students of different ethnicities, but it will be indirect. She will be turning her white students into little…

If your lab doesn’t have the funding to start another study, you may need to produce a publication to justify your prior expenditures - and to point to as a work product in order to apply for more money to run those additional studies. Your preliminary results may be trumpeted from the rooftops, but the results of…

Hey, Kumail Nanjiani is from just across the border in Pakistan! He is a stand-up guy, and funny to boot!

Hey, Kumail Nanjiani is from just across the border in Pakistan! He is a stand-up guy, and funny to boot!

You’re missing the biggest result: Disney would now own the distribution rights to the original Star Wars, and the entire hexology (that cannot be a word) would finally be in their hands.

Come on! Can’t the Russians have their own “Apollo 13" to provide national pride?

Yeah. While I loved working for FDACS and with my co-workers and boss, it was exceptionally frustrating from a financial perspective. Love doesn’t put dinner on the table, or savings in the bank. Choosing between car repair and groceries some months was painful. I guess I learned valuable lessons about stretching a…

Oh, man. I used to work with the guys from that world-class park system. It is all the more miraculous given how poorly they are treated by the State of Florida. Pay cuts, benefits cuts, furloughs, full-time workers replaced by part-timers (who are often the exact same employees now sans benefits), decreasing staff…

My guess is that this gentleman is a recent retiree to Florida, and has no clue. The last ten years have been free of serious storms, and a lot of new folks have emigrated to Florida without the memory or understanding of what one of these storms can mean. They can read how serious these storms might be, but if your…

Just remember: lawful and good, not awful and stupid. Both a police officer and a soldier can be lawful and moral without being obnoxious. Sometimes even the best cop has to pull a gun to serve and protect, and a warrior serves as a sword for their state as well as a shield. “My government has authorized me with the…

Since you’re an awesome historian, I am curious... what “state’s rights” (other than slavery) were the Confederate states fighting for? Having grown up in the South for most of my life, I’d love to see an example. Decades later, and I am still waiting. In the meantime, most of the Confederate Articles of Succession…

I’m confused. Why is a self-professed devout Christian celebrating a return to Valhalla in the afterlife, a Norse pagan tradition of endless war and feasting, rather than the Christian Resurrection?

As a white guy who spent entirely too much time growing up in the South but who was fortunate enough to get out, I am sorry. I hear and appreciate your very justifiable rage and frustration. You are right to call out the privileged for our inaction. Were I still living in a place like that, I’d happily write my…

And yet, you can’t watch either Labyrinth or the Dark Crystal on Netflix right now.

Amusingly enough, Ben Stiller’s wife was one of the writers for “Zoolander”.

“Demolition Man” is the unapologetic action-movie version of “Brave New World”, sort of. I love that film.

In defense of “500 Days of Summer”, at least one point of the film was that Ms. Deschanel’s character was not really who the protagonist thought she was. She had aspirations and interests of her own that had nothing to do with him, and he completely failed to notice this. 

For angiostrongylisis? Controversial. If you know you are exposed (or are going to be exposed), taking an anti-helminth prophylactically might help to kill the worms before they make their way to your brain. The problem is that once the larvae penetrate the blood-brain barrier, killing them would allow the bacteria…

Probiotics: a word used by marketers, not by scientists. The interactions between human beings and compatible bacterial/yeast faunal/floral communities that share our body make for a young science. Not really my area of specialty.