Niel deGrasse Tyson can pee his pants and then suck the pee out of the fabric for the stupid pop-history bullshit he spouts in Cosmos and his irritating twitter presence

Howard the Duck was a smash hit

hey why is every article on this website about 1997 or Ducktales? I hate it

That one Adventure Time Islands episode and Father John Misty have both addressed virtual reality in far more interesting ways in under 10 minutes each.

I had negative interest in anything to do with this book but now I am curious…

In this house we call it the Spanish Flu.

But I needed three books to convince me that forcing children to beat each other to death on TV was a bad thing to do.

"Cocofleshlights" is the best name they could think of?

honestly I think every Meryl Streep performance is just her being Meryl Streep. Like John Wayne.

Who is the bigger nerd? The nerd, or the nerd who argues with him?

True to Caesar!

When does a coffee can you shit in just become a poop can?

A modern-day Caligula.

fuck this. Columbus Ohio is the real Columbus

They had Tsushima and Jutland! The point doesn't hold for early-modern naval warfare, though. The 1700s and 1800s were dominated by large frigates and ships - ever heard of the HMS Victory?

Jumanji was cool because it made up the game

Do you hate everybody from the early 20th century?

Yankton is making its fucking move!

The Maquis was a group of partisans. Maquis is just the French slang word for "the brush," where they usually lived. The largest group was the communist Franc Tireurs et Partisans, and they definitely called themselves partisans, as did everyone else at the time.

This was reported by Gen. S.L.A. Marshall in his book Men Against Fire, but most military historians today consider that a debunked statistics. From what I've read the majority of soldiers participated in combat.