[Ruth Bader Ginsburg] should grow a goatee, so [she] can sit somewhere being sinister while stroking [her] goatee.

I don't think you can say Beowulf and A Christmas Carol were improvements, so no.

Is everyone else being too polite and/or cool to bring up "Runaway Train"?

I hate to demur, Jean-Luc de Lemur, but he was the Fat Director before nationalisation, at which point he became the Fat Controller.

Certainly according to Captain Picard.

From trainsvestite Trainsylvania?

Please don't give John Lasseter any more ideas.

Mothers buying toys for children old enough to have children of their own… is this a thing? Should I pitch this to the New York Times Style Section? Would the real Dr. Phil tell me that this is an attempt by parents anxious to become grandparents to tell their kids to get on with it?

One does not simply walk into Gallifrey.

I'm Cherokee Jack.

*shrugs* It's only a model.

Plus, even without Berlanti, it's not uncommon to focus so much on the pilot that the next three or four episodes don't get as much executive meddling as they need, because the producers are instead concentrating on hitting a homerun on the fifth or sixth episode. The ur-example of which would be the first season of…

Well, what shall we hang… the holly, or each other?

I, uh, I've gotta go home and see what the wife's doing.

Let me guess - someone said you don't need public libraries anymore because of ebooks.

Poe's Law is like Poe's Love - drunk and pseudoscientific

So you're saying he's going to get the part of Thomas Kalmaku?

If he's the first costumed vigilante, explain the Central City police department mural!

There is a difference between not completed and not published, since the publishing process can take up to a year after the book has been finished. Or, if you prefer, 'finished', since they will rpobably find some spelling mistakes.

In many, many ways that's a lot worse than actually believing it. Damn it, that's the sort of crap you're suppose to experiment with in college to get it out of your system. It's one of the Big Three - drugs, sexuality and missing-the-point philosophy