Fucking priceless, indeed. So priceless that Deadspin went with a static screen grab instead of a video or GIF that woulda shown what he said.

“Naomi and Holden rekindling their romance ...”

What I find hard to square is why so many open secrets go unaccepted for so long, and it leaves me wondering, are creatives like Bryan Singer so rare that everyone turns a blind eye, or are studio executives so risk adverse that they’d rather support known predators than bet on newbie producers who might fill those…

The one and only appropriate reply, Beth.

What you found is a fookin’ kneeler!

Are we all still pretending io9 writers haven’t read through the entire season of leaks and spoilers?

“... links haven’t made it on to mainstream internet forums like Reddit ...”

“A chicken, a chicken, my kingdom for a chicken!”

It’s really kinda silly that folks are still pretending the entire season of storylines — including much of the script dialog — hasn’t been leaked. So many reviews and recaps and “predictions” are being written by people who know exactly what’s going to happen. It makes an article like this one feel like just another…

“Hence Dolores may very well be a prototype for some mechanism of immortality.”

First question in Drew’s mailbag today was about Trump calling Hillary a “bitch” in the debates. Big headline on the main page and sidebars.

“The problem in [the United States] is the drinks are too hard and the toilet paper’s too soft.” — Winston Churchill as quoted in Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham

“The problem in [the United States] is the drinks are too hard and the toilet paper’s too soft.” — Winston Churchill…

“For regular people, only a small percentage in the rest of the world is in denial. In the US, it’s like 45% of the population. Either the entire world is stupid, or the US has a problem. Which do you think?”

Trivia nugget: Mr. Wizard appeared after Bill Murray on the very first broadcast of Late Night with David Letterman in 1982; eighteen months before the premiere of his revival on Nickelodeon.

CraigyFerg! Somewhere in the multiverse, he got Letterman’s time slot, and Geoff wasn’t shipped off to Russia where he dispenses vodka and condoms in underground adult movie theaters.

Came here for an East Pakistan reference and was not disappointed.

Agreed about the CGI; video game feel.

Fair enough, but you just underscored what I believe are very common problems in public discourse these days: carelessly following one’s own tribe, repeating what one has heard without independent research, saying anything ‘cause maybe the ends will justify the means, etc.

Back in 1996, breast cancer funding from the National Cancer Institute, the largest giver of academic research funds in America, totaled $382 million compared to $86 million; a ~4.5 to 1 disparity. By 2006, the difference had shrunk to $715M versus $376M; still nearly double. By 2013, last year of available stats from…

I suspect many, if not most, of the names on the watch list were programmatic additions: bots harvesting identities from jihadi websites, known associates of minor terrorism arrests, anyone involved in suspicious online financial activities, etc. Real dragnet sorta stuff, y’know? It’s downright frightening to imagine…