From what I remember he was leading in the polls from the moment he entered the race.

Why would the media have given him so much attention if he didn't have so many supporters?

The end of a long week definitely belongs in the basket of deplorables.

"You don’t ask David Duke to play Snapchat games and beer pong, and the same should go for any other hate-monger. It’s not a tough call or brave stance. It should be an easy call."

They've even won the NL more recently than the Padres.

Any truth to the idea that this inspired Howard Beale's suicide announcement in Network?

If Hillary's faults are being played up to maintain a false balance, why wouldn't any other Democratic nominee get the same treatment?

Why would those people be more electable than Hillary?

I always got the impression that most baseball fans considered Shea to be kind of a dump. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Not marijuana specifically, but:

"Or yours! Or yours! Or YOURS!"

Reminds me of Our Dumb Century's parody of the War of the Worlds broadcast which had people killing themselves because Charlie McCarthy told them to.

There's also former NFL QB Dick Wood and former race car driver Dick Trickle.

"Last chance to be a hero, doctor. Get going!"

I think 1984 might be my favorite year for SF movies, what with Terminator, Ghostbusters, Last Starfighter, Search for Spock, 2010, Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Buckaroo Banzai, Runaway, and Dune(Hey, Frank Herbert liked it).

I don't get the whole laugh track criticism. For one thing, it's actually a studio audience, but whatever. Anyway, if you remove the canned laughter you affect the timing of the jokes, so I don't think it's really fair to judge the humor on that basis. Put it this way: did you think it's funny with the canned…

I wish that in First Contact they'd had the date of first contact be September 8, 2066.

Why do so many people excuse his behavior? OK, I'm aware that he's done some good things for people, but it seems to me like a lot of the time he acts like an asshole and his fans say he "doesn't suffer fools gladly" or some other classic asshole excuse.

I've noticed people don't really use suffixes like "O-Tron" or "O-Matic" to indicate futuristic technology anymore. Another kind of sci-fi terminology that seems dated to me now is long strings of science-y words like "Let's use the synthoprismatic synchrondibulizer!" Probably why terms like "flux capacitor" from Back…

Well, at least this book doesn't have any made-up words in the title.