I am, to my knowledge, alone in my belief that Hammet's "Continental Op" is an unrecognized influence on Bond and one possibly more important than Bulldog Drummond, Duckworth Drew or the various John Buchan and Eric Ambler protagonists who are usually cited.

He has a spinoff comic that's pretty good.

Kinda-sorta out here. I've seen worse, but he's still in the pocket of Big Jesus and Big Greed.

That all the Democrats actually hung together is astonishing in itself.

I dunno—when the shit hits the fan, they go begging to Big Government pretty quickly.

But whatever brain-dead creep he appoints to replace Maverick won't be beholden to that view.

"Completely idiotic" covers ol' LG.

I jam all the white athletic socks in a drawer together, but then I have to try and match up a pair when I need them, because I've bought different brands over time.

This calls for a Stefon List, but I'm tired.

Liberals like Michael Bloomberg,

Nice.

Flagged for not spelling it "brreksitt."

Ordinarily, I'm not a gimmick account man, but I'm getting into this one.

XBox Live?

I got lectured about this by a bus driver about a year and a half ago.

He can act with his neck-eyes.

Plus there's a book where a bunch of fundamentalist Christians get mad at Sarek because 1) he points out their failure to live up to their literal interpretation of the Bible (while commending many of the Bible's moral and ethical lessons) and 2) because he looks like their idea of a demon (or, as he puts it, a…

Oh, great. It should really be fun once the troglodytes find out that religion is a no-no on Trek now.

Inevitable is right, but they're going to make us pay dearly for our eventual success in 10 or 20 years.

Oh, no no no… You know who you're dealing with.