His pathological desperation/determination to count everything could actually go to some interestingly dark places.

Unfortunately, this is probably the prudent thing to do in today’s political environment (in addition to being consistent with long-standing university policies). Iowa’s governor is Republican and the House and Senate are both Republican majorities, and they’ve already shown their anti-education colors by reducing…

No Day to Die but Today!

Palpatine - “I’m not dead yet!”

Are these back because it’s JJ Abrams at the helm?  Because Rian Johnson went along as if they never ever existed.  I mean, action figure toys, right?

We are no longer the knights who say “Kylo” we are now the knights who say “grandfatheriwillfinishwhatyoubegan!”

You must now cut down the mightiest tree on Endor.... wiiiiiiith... A WOMPRAT!

The Knights Who Say Kylo

For a second, I was like “...Phoenix?” Then I remembered that was my avatar as “The Ashes of Reality”, haha.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —

weird how your boy buttigeig isn’t getting any traction, huh. and after he went to all that effort to be a moderate on vaccination, too.

Apropos of nothing, but has there ever been a Kinja update that has been warmly received? I’ve never seen a system where every update provides either less functionality or less convenient functionality.

Oh My Gawd

That was one of my pet peeves with the EU books. As a former teenage political junkie, every time I heard “New Republic,” I thought of the magazine.

Sensible chuckle from all four of us on io9 who are journalism nerds.

This comment deserves waaaaay more stars

Then that Force Ghost in Jedi really was just Hayden Christensen from Shattered Glass.

“Switchblade Lightsaber” sounds like an emo band from 2007.

USS Defiant.

“So we beat on, tents against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”