The photo is bad quality, but as I went out of the movie there thas this orchstra of kids dressed up as padawans playing the songs. With their violins like sabers. Seriously they should always do that after a big movie, it was so nice!

Anyway, nervous jokes and tomfoolery aside, here’s what this means.

You know that link to the Irish thing is....interesting. It’s a weird mix of half-accurate history and some weird modern “anti-PC” rhetoric that is really hard to accurately parse.

I think it would have been helpful to include a map of the world in the cretaceous period. Not taking anything away from the length of migratory route, but it helps to visualise the journey (from the fine folks at

Were you on a diesel sub, or an original nuclear boat from 60+ years ago?

“I read an article on Adequate man!”

That terrible punt return aside, wasn’t Jackson down by contact? His elbow clearly made a divot in the ground right before he fumbles the ball. How is that not over-ruled during replay? There’s no question Jackson deserved everything there, but it still looked like the ground caused the fumble. Elbow counts just the…

Giants fan?

Every year, Cleveland should play Detroit in a 17th game at the end of the season in the “Sad-offs.”

I don’t think that’s the point.

The point is that Sisyphus *should* delight in his task because he has nothing to worry about doing or being. Unlike any of us, he knows his lot. He can exalt in this exist completely free of construct and pretense.

No, no - that’s the opposite of what Camus is saying. Sisyphus redeems the tragedy of his situation through the rationally absurd move of willingly choosing to push the boulder. For Camus, the real tragedy would be for Sisyphus to see himself as merely a victim of his circumstances (even though that is clearly the…

This is worth posting (via the Pew Research Center):

Drew, you’re ignoring the best part of Christmas week (at least if you work in an office): it’s the one time of the year where nobody really cares what you do while you’re there. People at my company all the way up the ladder will roll in two hours late every day that week, take a 90 minute lunch and leave by 4. The…

(There is a very good theological reason for setting Christmas at a fixed date. This is because it corresponds to nine months from the Annunciation - which is the date Jesus is incarnated inside Mary. That happens to be a very special day because it is also the day Jesus is said to have been crucified, the day *the*…

When they are getting carried off on that little stretcher, if he feels well enough, the player should sit up and pretend he is paddling a canoe. It would cheer up the whole stadium.

My first thought upon hearing of his passing...

The real risk and the genuinely serious harm is not from the photos at all but from law enforcement. The photo trading is embarrassing but mostly harmless - criminal charges or a conviction will ruin your life.

This whole situation is fucked up, but the use of the phrase “desirable children” in the Times article, strikes me as being off. Wouldn’t teenagers or young adults been better terms? Just wondering...

So a few rape scenes are now triggering and cliche, but murder in most episodes of most shows is no problem at all. Maybe we should have trigger warnings so the babies can change channel?