I must admit that I was fairly surprised to see that. Then I remembered the new guy in charge and apparently he wasn’t lying about making big changes.

They needed to play something while Philae’s solar panels charged up. The only other option was monopoly and you know how LONG that game takes.

But in all seriousness, it was interesting watching astronomers on Twitter talk about it. Perhaps the best advice was from Katie Mack:

The Comet explains the confusion very well:

Bite your tongue!

They also always just focus on the cake. They never think about the fact that these business practices, once authorized, can easily bleed into things other than bakeries. The cake is a lie used to make it look like an overreaction.

I really like your take on it. I genuinely don’t believe that Snyder put that much thought into it, though.

You mumble in hopes that you get something right.

Hey. We paid France. And putting trump in as a royal Governor would backfire immensely. It’d be like putting Dunmoore in all over again.

Exactly!

Why do you want to hurt the dome so badly? What did the dome ever do to you?

Love that episode. My dad always ends up buying fruitloops after watching it.

Plus there was the time they lost Gail Carriger’s books that were signed.

Or even just the Soviet Union.

And it’s possible it’s why things worked out well this time.

His post where he says he’s fine with them boycotting them, here are the groups you need to boycott for being associated with me, is pure beauty.

Scalzi is very liberal, it’s just that it’s not exactly readily apparent from reading his books. You only really find it once you look into his blog and who he is. I, personally, rather enjoy reading his blog posts. His books, though, are very hit and miss for me.

They apparently, from reading his series, thought that he was one of them. Then they went to his website and boy were they shocked with what they found.

She puts ketchup on the fries first. Duuuh.

Well, I think part of it is because of the history of theater. No one bats an eyelash when someone is re-staging a play.