Relax. You didn’t say what you thought you did. It happens. Why get irate about it? Why does it make you feel attacked when people who find your statement ambiguous (like I did) and point out the possible ambiguity. No one is calling you a bad person here.

In the annotated radio scripts, Adam’s says that the throw~away line about the extra head suiting Zaphod was very much that: a line thrown in as a quick “Wait, what?” gag which nobody gave any thought to because radio. I don't think it's ever even referred to again in the radio show afterwards. Then they made a TV…

Stephen Merchant should be one. Definitely need at least one Englishman, or there's no way this works. 

Anyone who can write the way he did about the whale trying to coming to terms with its existence as it plunged from orbit and why the bowl of flowers thought what it did gets a pass on A LOT of subpar stuff from me. That bit is both funnier and sadder than anything I’ll ever create.

Really? Because my single experience with them suggests they aren’t good fresh. Newly arrived into St. Louis college kid, fresh from the wilds of Alaska, was taken on a road trip when his dorm mates found out he’d never even heard of White Castle. The single slider I ate is still the most repulsive thing I’ve ever put…

Santa Clara is ground zero for progressivism?

The sun is the same heat both coasts.  The 49ers just upped their game by building a stadium with a giant glass luxury box tower on one side of the field that is ideally constructed for taking the sun that does fall on that part of the stadium and focusing it into a death beam that would make a supervillian proud.

“And what would ya say to a nice cup of tea?”

The biggest problem with the disarray narrative is that it is true and thus easy to make the primary one. The Democratic party has spent so long running away from its base that, for all practical purposes, it no longer has one. “People who don’t like Trump” isn’t a real base and hoping they can be made to act enough…

Feckin’ time travel, man.

I think we are probably in general about most of these (our education disagreements seem mostly semantic-pay for undergrad versus make high school more like undergrad.)

I don’t know much about cricket nor do I want to-trying to parse things like “47 runs on 3 passed wickets and 16 overs not out” is way more fun that way.

I think undergraduate college (or same kind of vocational training) should be free (or the nations high schools should be made way more rigorous) as it is increasingly obvious that what we consider as sufficient in a k-12 education doesn’t really match the real world needs of graduate today. And I know the average…

I’m pretty far left, so I guess my default position is that you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps as long as the societal support (physical infrastructure, fair regulatory structures, fair and reasonable treatment of workers, educational and healthcare systems) is in place.  This country doesn’t have most of…

Yes.

I am a mechanical engineer. And I am not a parent.  I am not saying you can’t help your kids.  Build them the best home you can.  Buy them the best education you can.  But they should also know that the gravy train stops, and they had better be using these advantages to get themselves ready to be something more than a…

I’m not saying they can’t keep their OWN money. I’m saying the exact opposite-you can’t keep OTHER people’s money. Your money is yours. It is not your children’s. If everybody has to get their own, then you have a growing and vibrant economy. In a world where wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of…

It would keep massive piles of money from accumulating in the hands of increasingly useless people (see Trump Family, et al.) Spend all the money you want, but if you raise your kids with the knowledge that eventually they will have to shift for themselves, they may turn out to have something to add to the world.

One of the things I do fully and wholeheartedly support is absolutely confiscatory estate taxes. You want to spend your money while you are alive, fine. But your kids and grandkids have got to get their own.

The median salary for a college graduate 10 years out from Princeton is $80K. From Yale, it’s $83K. You might start approaching the numbers you claim as 2% territory if both bread winners in the household graduated from Harvard or MIT. But if they both graduated from the University of Chicago, they are only averaging…