Andrew "Smallpox" Luck, to be topical, though that seems a little uncharitable.

I don't understand. Why would it be telling us this if not out of love for humanity and the desire to see us succeed? I think it is more likely that the bot loves too much. You can't save everyone, bot. It's against the terms of service.

At best, pretending to be scientific can be a commitment to try to make the rest of the series mostly make sense if you see through your fingers on one or two issues. At worst, it's no commitment at all, just fantasy with scientific jargon while they pretend it's something else. (If they don't bother to pretend, like…

If you assume some virus or disease can provide humans with healing powers that a hundred million years of evolution could not provide to any mammal, there's no point in trying to hard to make the other aspects of the disease plausible either.

Any news on the identities of the two other people killed in the explosion?

I lived through the end of history, and in just 16 years we are scheduled to see the end of poverty. We are lucky people.

Carrey may have been the assistant conductor on the vaccine crazy train, but he never stepped off. He wrote this in 2009:

My generation invented inventing new words for old things! Now vamoose off my turf, the mixture of rye and Kentucky bluegrass that is my magnum opus and whose destruction would cause me to question the value of my entire life.

Heloise was ahead of her time.

The community shouldn't act like foul-mouthed pubescent children! But part of the community is, in fact, foul-mouthed pubescent children, and other parts of it can't not be that hard enough to make that subgroup disappear forever. Also, most foul-mouthed children grow up eventually.

Needing money to invade only makes sense if the money will be used when and where Earth money has value. We must have traitors in our midst! But if we destroy all life on Earth before the fleet arrives, it will prevent the traitors from carrying out their evils plans.

They met somebody walking the other direction down the hallway, and both sides kept dodging the same way. Finally the fire department punched a hole in the ceiling they could escape through, but by then they were dehydrated.

My impression is that you'll probably need the RPG or plasma cannon to break that glass. Computer games have featured a lot of variants of that set over the past couple decades. Though in regards to both that and the analog meters, retro-futurism is hardly a new thing for Gilliam.

The UK already has invasive chipmunks. Their presence in 1800 should be explained by The Miller's Tale of the Lady Not Yet Born.

At best the song encourages irresponsible sex and infidelity. There is no room for such attitudes in rock and roll, which has always stood for respect and reinforcement of positive social values. Finally, both political wings understand that.

Did you know that nirvana means the absence of pain?

Anyone with the determination to see it through all the way to the end will find that their counterpart did not share their determination, making the effort wasted.

The right of assembly must be understood in the context of James Madison being one-fifth of the mech that broke the siege of Charleston.

The palms are getting rubbed raw. I meant the leaves on the ground.

Is he, she, it, they — whatever the proper pronoun may be; not even "we" or "I" can be eliminated with surety — alive? We observe electromagnetic emissions of physical, chemical, geological, or biological origin, which defy categorization as regular or random, falling in the vexing middle ground. If it is a message,…