I think the police think they have a slam dunk, but the prosecutor’s office apparently feels otherwise.  Sometimes the police are so convinced that they know who’s guilty, they feel justified in cutting corners.

It’s remarkable how we heard that they got paid only from the Chicago PD; but in direct comments to the press, they have refused to say anything of the kind. Sounds to me like the Chicago PD coerced those confessions in some fashion.

Things make the most sense, to me, if we assume the following:

Are you familiar with the TierZoo? They talk about zoology like it’s a videogame and it’s a lot of fun. Cassowary birds factor into this one:

Florida Man is like Zorro: there will always be another to take his place.

As for my demise itself, I was thinking of using piano wire for a noose and hopping off a building, while holding sparklers in each hand.

Personally I want the nerd equivalent of a Viking funeral: cremate me and then put me in an Estes rocket.

Darn good advice, and it’s rooted in respect.

Yeah. One time Magneto went after the Red Skull for being a Nazi, and it was brutal. I don’t think he’d be willing to put up with Trump’s Neo-Nazi hordes.

Sir, do not underestimate the regard in which I hold the masters and court officers of 43-Man Squamish. Although I respect baseball players a hell of a lot too.

Sometimes there is more than one principle at work, and no single principle can be respected as an absolute; each principle has to accommodate the other(s) at least a little. (Or as we used to call it, “being able to think like an adult.”)

How about a sign that says “Bring Back General Sherman!”

When they start going on about the Civil War, I have been known to say “yeah, damn shame about General Sherman. He shouldn’t have left any of ‘em alive.” In my experience that’s enough to make ‘em stop for a minute to recalibrate their understanding of the situation.

The guy from “Young Man’s Fancy” had some growing up to do all right. Here’s the man he grew up into:

Even the most clunky old TZ episodes were at least competently written and performed.  The only one that I think fails the basic test of watchability is “Little Girl Lost”, where a child falls into another dimension for absolutely no fucking reason, and the dad’s physicist friend has to get her back out.

Can I mention how completely appropriate it was for Supergirl to apologize to Lena? We’ve seen it as a character flaw of Kara’s that she couldn’t grasp Lena’s take on things, and finally she’s doing the right thing. And how’s that for an emotionally-honest, agenda-free apology? Possibly the first one Lena’s ever…

“who was the Mayor of Amity in Jaws”

Oh, one other thing about original “Twilight Zone” that its imitators have trouble with: old TZ was rarely cynical. Often critical of human nature, but they almost never went the half-bright writer’s route of cynicism.

People get “The Twilight Zone” wrong so often, and the big problem is, they think of it as Twist Ending Theater when that’s rarely what it was. Much more often, it was Unlikely / Otherworldly Premise Followed To Its Logical Conclusion.

Pretty cool! I’m going to assume your father’s sport is 43-Man Squamish because not enough people even know what that is.