Yeah, that scared the ever-living crap out of me! That's a classic bit, but it's only likes 5 or 10 minutes out of the whole movie. III is so goddamn inconsistent. They really should've expanded that and made it one of the main storylines along with the red kryptonite. They could've had a freaky classic, but they had…

Oh shit, you too? This "TV in the lunchroom" thing drives me absolutely out of my damn mind. Ours was usually on CNN (muted, thankfully) until recently, which means we often have the slow, miserable decline and collapse of western civilization and democracy being reported (silently) in the most vapid way imaginable…

Ah, thanks for clarifying where the bomb came from. I was confused about that and hadn't made the connection between the talk radio-slash-warmongering Alex Jones-type videos and the setting of the bomb.

I'm not quite so concerned over actual, literal tweets. It's his Twitter behavior that points to a larger issue regarding his temperament. The president holds a terrifying amount of power over nuclear weapons (though different online reading materials offer conflicting info on just how many other people need to sign…

You're putting a lot of faith into the Pentagon here. All of human existence is on the line. Oh well, what else can we do?

Woah, pal. Not saying Democrats had it together either or trying to defend Hillary, that's not what I'm even talking about. Tangent much? Just saying that Republicans were ripe for takeover by a wacko demagogue from outside, and that's exactly what happened. Fundamentalists have declined in power in recent years, as…

Republicans were so disorganized and fractured before this that I doubt there's any conspiracy or long game. They got seized by a populist movement that seemed to come out of nowhere, assisted by social media and the shifting of the Overton window. I hope you're right, though, because Pence does not seem to have a…

Thanks for trying to reassure me, but I'm not so sure we have survived worse… have we? In the nuclear era, that is. The most comparable previous president might be Andrew Jackson, right? But that was long before nuclear weapons. I guess you could say Nixon was also a vengeful, unstable, bigoted crook with an enemies…

This is why my anxiety levels are through the roof lately. Who cares about small government vs. big government when this unstable, hair-trigger-tempered freak is going to have access to nuclear weapons? We're fucked. Humanity is fucked. People keep talking about the elections in 2018 and 2020. There aren't going to be…

Agreed, but the one major thing that warmongering faux-cowboy jackass has over Drumpf is that W. seems fairly calm, chill, and collected. I trust his finger on the nuclear button a lot more than Drumpf's. W. doesn't seem like he'll flip the fuck out and lose his shit if you call him a mangled apricot hellbeast or an…

None of those are space shows, which get singled out for special opprobrium and scorn (which pisses me off). The producers of The X-Files denied it was even a sci-fi show for the first couple of years or so. Lost didn't have many fantasy elements in S1 and was specifically inspired by Survivor. Some people complained…

Modern BSG did well by Sci-Fi Channel standards in its first two seasons or so, but it would not have lasted long on broadcast TV. Anyway, by the end, the numbers had declined significantly.

The really bizarre thing is that BuzzFeed News now sometimes carries out amazingly detailed investigative reporting. My reaction was, "Wait, this is BuzzFeed? What? No. That can't be right. REALLY?" For instance, want to know why everybody is bitching about the Trans Pacific Partnership? Because it would expand the…

I've seen a shitload of fake news — since my friends are mostly liberal, I mostly see dumb fake liberal news (e.g. a story about Charles Manson endorsing Trump, widespread enough that Snopes bothered to debunk it), but dumb conservative fake news was very widespread according to some sources. Check it out:
https://www.b…

The really depressing thing is that it seems like Democrats can't win Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc., without a whole goddamn shitload of these racist-enablers who voted for this con man. Unfortunately the reason a lot of these people didn't show up in the polls was because they knew it was WRONG to vote for…

Yeah, I'm really, really anxious about that. Come on Obama, change the fucking procedure for that goddamn football NOW. Second person as firewall!

They may never realize anything. Any problems we have? Blame them on immigrants, on Democrats, on Mexicans and Muslims, on intellectuals… how long will they keep believing it? Not forever, I hope.

Anytime a political party and its followers suffer such a catastrophic loss, they need time to grieve. This is a much bigger loss than the usual political loss so we will need MORE time to grieve than usual. THEN we follow your suggestions… but not yet. Need a few weeks at least. People are NOT ready.

According to this, 24% of illicit drugs in 2012 came to the U.S. via narco-sub:
https://news.vice.com/artic…
I suspect that a very low rate of capture more than offsets total losses from a few captured single runs. It's surely easier to sneak across most borders underwater than above land.

Regarding your final paragraph, I agree overall, which is what makes it so frustrating when they leave in that one obnoxious tell with a "person x is definitely going home!" confessional after every immunity challenge, and then person x never, ever goes home. They just seem to have overlooked that one single stupid…