If I ever feel like getting creeped out, I just read the Wikipedia page for "Able Archer '83" and that does it right there.

Transporter psychosis? At least it's not space madness!

Like so much great sci-fi, "Darmok" is a cautionary tale and a warning - the Tamarians are what we might become if we continue communicating mostly through memes, hashtags, and Simpsons references!

A couple of years ago I saw Nicole Atkins at a little club called Slim's in San Francisco, and during one number she literally climbed down off the stage and just strolled around through the middle of the audience while singing an entire song.

My local Borders used to have a few tables stacked with dirt-cheap nonfiction and reference books. I bought a lot of books on history, archaeology, science, etc. there in the early 2000's.

"Sorry folks - escalator temporarily stairs."

"How do you take your tea, soon-to-be-ex-Mrs. Trump?

Big Soap had it in for her.

Unfortunately we still have the same kind of problem today…

I knew that sounded familiar. During the Clinton-Lewinsky impeachment scandal, an Australian newspaper printed this sentiment in a letter to the editor:

Come on, I ask you: do we really need two Dakotas?

It's funny how a band like Spin Doctors, Hootie and the Blowfish, or Creed can toil in obscurity for years, suddenly blow up overnight and be absolutely everywhere for a while, then plummet back into obscurity, but now with the added ignominy of being a punchline for years to come.

Some people are reluctant to talk about the school they attended because they are unhappy with how their career turned out and assume people will judge them for not accomplishing more.

Sounds like one too; see what I found on his website in my response to cybersybil above.

"Human Being, Communications Professional, Creative."

It does have a lot more grandeur and majesty than any other Trek movie, but unfortunately it also basically rips off the plot from the original series episode "The Changeling":

Except in Wars, they seem to have roughly the same level of technology over those several thousands of years. They're not really advancing. In fact, the most powerful stuff (in the EU, anyway) was built by "Ancient Ones" whose technology is now lost.

I've read enough "writers writing about writing" to last me a lifetime, and that was just in Honors English class.

If anything Essos is too civilized, in the sense that various decadent elite ruling classes use money, power, and tradition to ruthlessly exploit the masses and/or hapless foreigners, and everyone mostly just accepts that as the "natural order of things".

The grandmother gets mailers that offer to "protect her from Muslims"? The mind boggles.