I always figured the plan was, “Hey, I’m a f’ing Jedi. I’ll just go in and talk my way out. Or kill everybody in the room. Whatever.” My reading was this was a strong indicator of the dark side arrogance that he was inching toward. And in fact, it’s the same plan he used to get together with Vader and the Emperor,…

“The Greatest Show On Earth, one of the worst movies to ever win Best Picture.”

The thing about intentional tanking is, if multiple teams are trying it at once, chances are it’s not going to work unless the team orders its players to throw games — and I’d love to listen in on that locker room talk. This makes me believe that’s not about the draft picks but about the money.

Exactly. And the thing that never occurs to them is...if all the soldiers in a war are well-trained and heavily armed, shouldn’t they all survive unharmed? And win?

Be so cool to see Bill Mumy (today’s version) and the Robot step out of the Stargate into Cheyenne Mountain.

Given that recently I nearly got body-slammed in a Target parking lot by an SUV backing out of its space at astonishingly high speed — and only avoided getting clobbered because what’s left of my 59-year old reflexes actually did their job — I think this is a wonderful idea.

Reminds me of a disastrous chess move I made last week. (Apparently, trading both my queen and a bishop for a knight is not considered an especially good move.)

Interesting. If the “Nigerian Prince” emails her for money, she’s going to be outraged. But the Muscovite Prince came calling, and she handed over her PIN, her door key, and probably her best pair of Sunday morning undies.

You have to remember that Florine — Florine? Really? — is the type of person who will claim that black people were much, much happier as plantation slaves and and that it was singin’ & dancin’ all the livelong day, with everybody working merrily in the fields together and she will still expect other people to regard…

So now both Florida teams are basically farm teams? Time to move one to Montreal, the other to Vegas, and let them rejoin the majors.

His attorney — or his mom, whatever — looks like she’s wishing she could be somewhere else, anywhere else, perhaps at that L. Ron Hubbard film festival she’s heard so much about...

And, he has a total inability to ever admit a mistake on his part. Odd, considering how many opportunities he’s given himself for that.

Jon Voight, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Chuck Norris: “The Inarticulate Four.”

But when I toured the Baxter Building last year, they assured me Wakanda was real!

I’m going out on a limb here to guess that Shapiro is one of those freaks who are still OUTRAGED! that Eartha Kitt played Catwoman — and played her beautifully — on Batman ‘66.

“Uppity...was originally a racist term” — Not disagreeing, but in my life experience, I’ve never heard that word used except and explicitly as a racist term.

Uh...not giving into the meltdown is giving them a constructive lesson. And I’ll get off your lawn now.

Going a bit OT here, but: never occurred to me before, but on streets where people need to seriously slow down, why don’t they put speed bumps at the stop sign rather than mid-block? Would that simply cause the drivers to accelerate mid-block even more?

So an old fogey* with a dye job is having conniptions because an attractive 18-year old athlete doesn’t want to spend time with him. Nothing to see here, folks, not even a little bit...

Yes. The “Taylor” narrator, once he proves his intelligence, is treated as an honored guest, makes speeches, given the key to the city, taken to the stock market, and shown via hypnotic regression how the humans of that world (not Earth) declined into animals because their society grew lazy, eventually being thrown…