If you want to get that technical, ramming speed is not a speed, and without a course directive, ram what exactly? We intuit what it means because we're seeing things through Sheridan's eyes, but to the lads and lasses down in engineering focused on trying to keep the reactor from overheating, it means f*ck all.

Yes, it's mostly about a line that gets the point across to the audience.

Dunham is so bad, even Carlos Mencia won't steal from him.

90s Dennis Miller had some pretty talented writers, AFAIK today's Dennis Miller writes his own material, and it shows.

Adjusted for inflation, gas prices then climbed steadily to reach a point that is not that different from now. And the efficiency of the average car was much worse, so the average driver then probably spent more on gas than we do now.

Or perhaps how he thinks of himself. One way to go with Clarke is a nonentity who rises to power by consenting to be a puppet of greater forces (like Psi Corps), but can never escape his own feelings of inadequacy. Such a person might come to embrace his mediocrity as a virtue.

"Ramming Speed" sounds cool, but does it actually make sense as a command?

Yeah, most cadets don't take the 'I Am an Angel of Death' essay assignment as seriously as Ivanova did.

That's debated elsewhere on this thread, no need to recapitulate that here.

Oh, I agree that Robert's rebellion had unforeseen consequences. My point is that people like Robb or Renley had Robert's amazing success as a righteous rebel in mind when they embarked on their rebellions. Hell, even Mance Rayder might have got some inspiration from Robert's story.

"the poorest American is still well within the 1% in world-wide "

Yeah, Slynt was the one who killed all the younglings in the Jedi temple, right?

This is a popular interpretation, and it has merit.

One interesting aspect of this is that in living memory there is the shining example of of Robert's rebellion against the Targaryens.

And given that it's the most, uh, unavoided program associated with the people who make an effort to un-avoid things, it's not clear to me that the demographics of HBO subscribers have a lot to say about the demographics of the real, total audience.

To me the most chilling moment was the testimony about Clegane's raid into the Riverlands when Tyrion was first taken. It's even worse than the book version.

Nutrient cycles are a fundamental concept in ecology. The big three are the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the nitrogen cycle (guess what four elements living things are mostly made of).

No, in this instance. I really do. It was a beautiful piece of work.

"does a fantastic job teaching a fundamental lesson of natural science"

Heh. I wonder how many Maleficent's we're going to get this year.