Um, no. There was very much the Internet in 1992. I was on it. There wasn't the Web, but there was Usenet, which is not that different from this forum.

Oh yes, Antitrust. It's really funny how Bill Gates has turned his reputation around in the last decade. I think he's read his history and is copying Andrew Carnegie who went from villain to hero by being charitable with his questionably acquired loot.

I was literally with the print Onion from the start — I was an undergrad at UW-Madison in the late 1980s and was glad that we had this new thing to compete with the Daily Cardinal (left wing student paper) and Badger Herald (right wing student paper). That was before it spread to different campuses and then to the Web.

That being said, East Germany (for all the shit it gets for the Stasi) was actually one of the better Communist states. I have relatives who worked hard to emigrate from Bulgaria to East Germany. It reminds me how today lots of Latin Americans consider themselves lucky to emigrate to Mexico.

There's some unreliable narration in biochemistry as well. August Kekulé famously claimed to have solved the circular structure of benzene by a dream of a snake swallowing its tail, but that's probably just something he invented to make the story more interesting to the public.

I think we're just too old to feel nostalgia for the period. At least me. I was starting grad school when the whole Kerrigan thing happened

And in Iceland, apparently!

Sadly not the much needed feature length explanation of whatever that night club was in Buffy. I mean what was it? A youth club? But didn't they still go there as college students? And why did the rest of people keep going there when it seemed clear that the local vampire population was using it as a locale to get…

Oh, no. In the 1930s and 1940s, yeah sure. You'd as likely starve to death there as in a random African nation. But post-Stalin it was okay survival wise. Yes, still years wait to buy a car, you had to spend most of your free time standing in lines to buy food or toilet paper, but you wouldn't *die*.

And the Jennings' travel agency is supposedly in Dupont Circle, which wouldn't really make sense for the time. It was a decaying neighborhood in the beginnings of gentrification by the local gay community in the 1980s, not the trendy locale of today.

Or trees? Wait, we kind of like M. Night again now, right? "Split" was pretty decent.

There's nothing at all wrong with YA literature when it is actually aimed at "young adults" (meaning older tween/teen children rather than actual young adults in their twenties). The "stigma" is simply the annoyance that ever since Harry Potter, *everybody* is supposed to be into YA literature/movies now. I'm not a…

I seriously have no idea what your comment means but the whole current attack on science and reason associated with the right today did start with the Marxist postmodernists like Gilles Deleuze that claimed that it was meaningless to talk about science being more correct than other ways of knowing. Later in the 1990s,…

Yes, to Westworld (no, not the TV show).

Although ironically, the whole "that's just your opinion" stuff originated not with the right, nor even with the stoner types parodied in Jeff Bridges' Lebowski, but with Postmodernists in the 1960s and 1970s, many of whom were literal Marxists.

I'm just sad that Socks the Cat never got to run for office. By far my favorite Clinton, even if he lived the remainder of his life with a secretary of the human Clintons when he didn't get along with their puppy Buddy.

The middle ages seemed to be fine with generations multiplying in tiny peasant shacks, which presumably required some getting it on.

But that was cyberpunk in general — it was a very 1980s literary genre, when it was assumed that Japan was going to rule the world as the new superpower (hey, Russia was clearly rotting away, the US wasn't doing much better, and China had just gotten over Mao and hadn't rediscovered capitalism — er, "socialism with…

I hope this goes into great detail about his time as a patent clerk. "I am sorry Herr Schmidt, but I must reject your application — you refer in paragraph 3 to figure 5, but you clearly mean figure 4!"

No. Die Alte Berliner is presumably short for "The Old Berlin Newspaper" (Die Alte Berliner Zeitung) and Zeitung is feminine.