Maybe Al Gore won AND was actually inaugurated in 2000, and lost to GOP nominee McCain in 2004. The McCain you see is 2nd term McCain, who got re-elected in 2008.

I did give some links, if you look at my post. First post was supposed to have the cite that's in the second post but I screwed up the link. I am an archaeologist with Mesoamerican experience if it makes you feel better.

Yes. Words have meanings.

The human race survived Hiroshima AND Nagasaki, too! Nukes are harmless!

That Maya website is not some official Mayan thing. I wouldn't rely on it as an authoritative source. It's not made by "the Mayans themselves," it's made by a guy named Scott Greene.

If you want to read a discussion of Mesoamerican empires, try Smith and Montiel's "Archaeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico," Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20, 245–284 (2001). You can also look at Empires: perspectives from archaeology and history, edited by Susan E.…

The Maya were not technically an empire. "Empire" has a specific meaning in archaeological literature, and archaeologists argue about what is or isn't an empire, but it's pretty clear that the Maya weren't one. "Empire" is a particular kind of polity, not just a generic synonym for "civilization."

Oh please, not Khan.

That's what they do.

The Futurama suicide booths were a parody of the suicide booths in the Star Trek episode "Taste of Armageddon," which predates this.

The prequels would have been a lot better if there had been an evil Jedi named Darth Von Awesome.

Apparently you're not supposed to get married or have lady-friends if you're a boy-Jedi, either. You can eat all the Hormel chili that you want in your little swamp-planet hut, though, so there's that.

I would have made the last episode the pilot for Sawyer's spin-off cop show.

It's spook central!

The Lincoln ziggurat looks like a good place to summon Gozer.

Nice planet you've got here. High oxygen content.

ICE to see yew, Caped Crooz-ay-duh! Yew ah no match foah my ICE TORNADO! Hahahah!

It's like they WANT it to fail. May as well name it PROJECT CLUSTERFUCK.

SILENCE!

Jedi are in the Bible?