An off-road Audi? I assume where the “sci-fi” comes in is that it will cost as much to maintain as a spaceship.

I think that when we compare this remake to the original, it'll be like looking in a mirror, only... not. 

I submit tonight’s Denver Hairless Horses With Overbites as an example of the problems that will result from ESPN’s choice to cut off the top and bottom of each logo.

Why is so much space used on the bar just to show the middle third of the logos (which is going to look terrible for many teams)? If ESPN wanted to grab the attention of casual fans for a nationally televised game, wouldn’t putting the actual names of the teams or cities playing somewhere on the screen have been a…

It’s kind of a pity (for his sake, at least) that he didn’t live a few years longer. WWII would have potentially been a gold mine for this guy (or gotten him hanged).

I’m imagining the Hasbro executive suite realizing that they have made a terrible decision when Suge Knight calls into the next quarterly earnings teleconference from his prison cell.

This is what stood out to me as remarkable about SMB2, that while you can make cases for Toad, Luigi, and Peach as the best character, Mario is certainly the worst character in his own game. It was fascinating because it didn’t have to be like that, it would have been easy enough to give Mario, star and namesake of…

Bojack Horseman immediately came to mind when I saw The Critic mentioned, but I’d agree it’s more of a spiritual successor. For one thing, its New York setting meant that outside of the parody movie reviews, The Critic tended to skewer East Coast media life more than Hollywood. And while Duke Philips was created as a…

2012: Colts die, Luck is cancelled.

In related news, the next version of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is expected to require a Parental Advisory label.

Motor Induction System Taycan, or MIS Taycan for short. 

It’s definitely along the lines of the British SAS insignia.

The uvula must therefore be the foot of the mouth, which is to say it is also a body part Liefield omitted because he couldn’t draw it.

Moses is a quality role player to be sure, but he’s never been able to lead a team to the Promised Land by himself.

No one splits a double team quite like Moses though. 

Elizabeth II is a good choice—if you want people to instantly recognize you on sight, making them want to carry around lots of little portraits of you everywhere they go is a great idea. For decades she's been on the currency of over 30 countries. 

Yeah, the fame of being Pope is in the visibility of the position, not personal fame. There have been over 250 popes, but I’d consider only a handful to have enduring fame beyond their term, and that’s being generous. Due to the length of his papacy and visibility in an age of mass media, John Paul II remains quite…

Everybody Fights A Big Purple Guy (Parts I and II) 

Oh, they definitely should. The “Red Universe” was full of fun pop-culture “what ifs” - Ronald Reagan starred in Casablanca, Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future, Len Bias lived to become a legendary NBA player, zeppelins still moor at the Empire State Building, etc., but what was really great about it is the way it was…

“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about…