For all the wrangling and hassle and dangers of running these pipelines, somebody tell me again WHY somebody can’t refine and burn the oil closer to the drill site and just pump the megawatts directly into the power grid? If they have to pump all that oil so far away to put it to any good use, how much is it REALLY…

I dunno, for a critter the size of a Megalodon, spending its days munching on giant squid and other big sharks and whales and such, people don’t even count as hors d’ouevres, do they?

The legal goobledy-gook is bad enough, even without the miscarriage of justice it’s wrapped up in. Setting aside the issue that he was tried as an adult (?!?) how is the conviction “murder” if he didn’t pull a trigger? Murder implies intent, even in the strange case of ascribing the intent of the police officer to…

I absolutely LOVE how threatened the arch-conservatives are by the Parkland Gang. These kids understand social media in ways their opponents can only hope to grasp one day (despite all the focus groups, polling, consultants and bots), and they have a legitimate, authentic and very high profile story to tell that both…

Tom Holland’s sexiness gives me serious issues suspending my disbelief as high-school-aged Peter Parker...I’m not alone in this, am I??

Gotta love a white dude on a spring weekday heading into a baseball game telling native protesters to “get a job!” Surely he was being ironical, right? /s

Or plan B: launch and broadcast without the license. Wait to get served, go to court, case dismissed and/or law overturned. Might actually move faster than NOAA or Congress on a topic they already spend very little time or energy on.

Since it’s not likely this was an aerosol dispersal, I don’t see how the guinea pigs would have been exposed. The agent was likely on an object or surface that they knew Skripal would touch with bare hands, or something he would ingest. The speed that a nerve agent would take effect would protect the guinea pigs, the…

So seizing the site servers, essentially shutting down the business, all under seal - what about the people who use Backpage to earn a living? Handymen and dog walkers and massage therapists and people who sell second-hand junk, etc.?? If shady shenanigans were happening, didn’t it pertain to certain…

We only know about these sensations because of survivors of NEAR death experiences, so maybe the evolutionary advantage is that: if somebody does manage to cheat death, even temporarily, the stories they’ll pass on regarding the experience will ensure others are less fearful of death. Being less fearful of a painful…

People tend to forget that these apps are taking GPS position data and trying to apply it to a plain old flat map - elevations and grades are some next level calculations that can, and do, get mucked up. Chicago has Wacker Dr. and Lower Wacker Dr. and while they follow each other exactly for a stretch, there’s also…

I don’t think there are a whole lot of people who would seriously call LA “a flat city” - certainly some neighborhoods are hillier than others, but on the whole, LA is much more challenging terrain than say Dallas or Chicago.

The short answer is : No. But I’m wondering if whomever at MSU commissioned the work had a special request or focus on social media for some reason. Normally a crisis consultant would look at mainstream media and traditional national coverage with somewhat more weight than tweets from a victim’s husband and…

Half a million dollars could have set up an ombudsperson’s office for sexual harassment and assault on campus and seriously curtailed Nasser’s activities years ago. MSU is going to have to spend many times that now just to fill the vacant administrative positions for all the folks that are going to get charged, fired…

We shouldn’t need to ask for it, but now I want “Cruelty Free” certification on all the medals our teams bring home from the Olympics and other international championships.

Baseball has always had more than its fair share of geeky obsessives (mainly of the statistical-analysis variety) so I think its place in Gene’s vision of the future is pretty much guaranteed, regardless of his direct intent one way or the other.

Isn’t baseball the thing that literally kept the gorn and humans of Cestus from annihilating each other?

Or, you know, maybe it’s a nod to her Cuban heritage from a teenager who grew up in a state that places importance on such things, i.e. Florida. Still, a stronger connection to that flag, than Rep. King has to the confederate treachery, or maybe not...?

Uh, you get that people are born wherever their parents happen to be when the baby comes to term, right? It’s not like mini-RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHer pointed at a globe and said “let’s go there” and mom & dad obliged.

Then run for something. Or maybe talk a friend or relative into running, with your help and support. Un-opposed slots are the worst - the candidates are often the least-prepared for the job and the biggest surprises in where they stand on issues (almost never in a good way). Even if they still win, the fact that…