"Some people think that we should just sit back and do nothing while these hurricanes devastate the United States, kill Americans, and destroy property. Well, that's not how it's going to be during my administration. When foreign terrorists struck at the USA, we acted. We didn't allow ourselves to be talked out of…

One small crap for a man ...

One of these things is not like the other. You can disbelieve in the Moon landings and the Higgs boson all you want, and nothing too bad will happen (although you may get punched by Buzz Aldrin). When you start deciding that vaccinations are a hoax and act accordingly, people get sick and die.

I intend to refer to this movie as "Star Trek: The Wrath of Cumb" until someone stops me by force.

Ocean acidification, food-chain collapse, deforestation, colony-collapse disorder, white-nose syndrome, fracking, anti-science know-nothing politicians and voters, rising religious fundamentalism, chytridiomycosis, a former nuclear power governed by a hybrid government composed of criminal/corporate/secret…

Seems like a lot of people's lives, but with better-quality VR.

Contusion Penis? I think I used to own their first two albums ...

As one of my favorite tweets put it:

The real killer subsequently fled to the Islets of Langerhans in an attempt to evade justice.

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

Tip for dieters: weigh yourselves at night.

"Too long, my brothers, we have suffered the depredations of the ospreys. Are we going to let these birds invade our watery kingdom, snatch and devour our fellow fish? I think not. We shall have our revenge. Listen closely ..."

As a friend put it:

All these arguments can be essentially reduced to "We have no idea how science works, don't try to explain, our minds are made up, we can't hear you, la la la la."

I assume that their spacecraft will be powered by Steorn Orbo technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn

It's always better to learn from a native speaker.

The real breakthrough moment for print-on-demand dildos will come when Cynthia Plastercaster http://www.cynthiaplastercaster.com/ (NSFW) digitizes her collection of celebrity penises and uploads the specs to Thingiverse.

The 'reluctant hero' is pretty much standard, not just in space opera. Joseph Campbell included "Refusal of the Call to Adventure" as one of the key steps in the hero's journey that underlies most heroic narratives ("the monomyth").

When the fare hits $88, it travels back in time.

If this is the kind of thing that scientists do when you encourage them by giving them grant money, I may have to start admitting that the anti-science types in the red states may have a point after all.