Good story to know, but I quibble with characterizing an RT reporter as a journalist, rather than, say, a propagandist.

Didn’t say that he did. But there is absolutely an identity of interests between those who instituted the Electoral College, which was made to privilege rural, slave-owning voters, and Trump. Is it cheating? No, but it’s a good reason to see those who don’t win the popular vote as illegitimate.

Your definition of cheating— manipulating actual ballots— is ridiculously narrow. Most dictators don’t actually manipulate ballots. They just suppress voting (which Republicans here do), or announce that they won more votes than they actually did (which Trump has done consistently when he claims he got more votes…

This is not believable in the same way that Spiderman not knowing the name of Empire Strikes Back is not believable. Are there people who wouldn’t remember the title of Empire Strikes Back or Star Trek: TNG? Absolutely! Would any of these people be able to accurately describe a plot point from the Battle of Hoth or…

Right. It’s only illegal if the MSPB says it is. And Trump’s going to be appointing the MSPB members. I highly doubt whomever he appoints will have an expansive view of federal employee rights.

I’m pretty sure just about every story about Dick Cheney fits into this category.

Lol at “there’s a level of respect,” like, do these people not remember Dick Cheney? Or Dan Quayle, for that matter?

The issue isn’t that Hydra’s computer identified him as a target, it’s that Sitwell mentions him as if he’s a name the other agents are likely to recognize. Not all that likely if he’s still just some rando neurosurgeon. I mean, can you name any famous practicing neurosurgeons? Only famous neurosurgeon is famous…

On second thought, having read all of the comments here, I give up. The timeline makes no sense and is not consistent with the Winter Soldier.

But they singled out Strange as if the listener would understand who that is. Makes no sense to mention him in particular if he’s just one of the many nobodies who’s going to get blown up. It only makes sense if there’s some general knowledge among Shield-types that he would be somebody important and noteworthy.

But the whole film takes place several years before the current Marvel universe timeline— we know that from the Winter Soldier, where Stephen Strange is mentioned as one of the people on Hydra’s list. I doubt he’d be there if he were just a former neurosurgeon nobody’s heard from in years. The main events must…

Sure, you can think that . . . if you totally ignore the fact that technology is the same in all scenes presented.

I just don’t see any way that Logan or Billy could be a generation before the Man in Black unless the show entirely abandons any sense of internal consistency. Because of what’s happening with Delores, we know that Logan and Billy’s storyline is happening at the same time as the behind-the-scenes storyline. It’s all…

I, too, waited in line for good seats at a panel at Mission: New York in the hopes of seeing them announce a cast, or, well, anything about Star Trek: Discovery. But nothing.

It’s not just Seven of Nine and Janeway that writers initially intended to be queer. Some writers wanted Geordi to be gay or bisexual in TNG, but Rick Berman killed that, as well. Ostensibly, his view was that television wasn’t ready for it, which is pretty much the antithesis of what Star Trek is about.

I would star this except for the insult to prune juice, which, as we all know, is a warrior’s drink.

The first season of TNG was weak, but this is an exaggeration. Conspiracy was a fairly clear example of the Federation making mistakes, at least.

You could put together a good list of these just from Star Trek. Basically every Holodeck / Holosuite episode does this. A Fistful of Datas comes to mind, plus Elementary, Dear Data, and Our Man Bashir from DS9. There’s also Q-Pid, which is just a fun episode.

Thank you for reporting this, but I am not quitting playing bagpipes and other wind instruments. Fuck that alligator!

There is limited empirical evidence on this, but when I was in law school and taking a death penalty class, I do remember that there was a study in the 90s by a sociologist (just Googled, his name’s Robert Young) finding not only that death-qualified juries are more likely to convict, but that they are also more…