Never let be forgot his delightful Captain Redbeard Rum on Blackadder (fairly anticipating half the characters of the Pirates of the Caribbean) ..arr

Little doubt that someone of greater eloquence has already stated this, but on the off-chance they’ve yet to arrive: some months ago trump threatened to sue all his, more numerous sexual harassment accusers and hasn’t done squat. So threatening to sue on matters such as these can be seen as about as significant as…

But y’see there is a paucity of leylines in the new world as we’re a quart and a half low on Druids. (betcha you get more than one defender of dowsing in this fine ol’ comment section based on the unknowable wonders of the semi-conscientious awareness channeled via idiomotor effects)

Sing out private!!: “All volunteer military!” “We chose this because we had no better alternatives!” “My career councilor said this was my best hope not to end up in jail!” “My daddy had a lifelong stable job in industry!” “Sir YES Sir!” -sigh- God bless them all.

Doing my part everyday! At this rate I should be dead in a few months. I invite all extraneous Y-chromosome cases to throw themselves upon my pyre. Then, oh then, what an eden it shall be! sans Adams, sans serpents, sans fart jokes. Until that halcyon day, please abort all male babies, they are no more than risk to a…

Merchandising! Merchandising! Hobbits, the breakfast cereal! Dwarves, the flame-thrower!

But phnog is just off screen wearing an electronical puppeting suit (or EPS), so this is just tele-tripsicory, if you will, so to speak, as such, withal

Besides, when the palm flower crystal starts to flash you just go to a glorious renewal Carousel.

Item #1 in the Big Boys Golden Book of Banana Republics: bend all government resources to persecute/punish all prior competition no matter that they no longer represent any direct threat.

The new rules/guidelines would classify the end product without regard to how it was produced (the example given being hornless cows via old-fashioned cross-breeding vs direct genetic manipulation of the horn gene). (that is, a hideous natural mutation would be classified as indistinct from a hideous bit of lab…

While journalistically plumbing the depths of the fringes of human psychology a little Markov chain reasoning may assist: you’re talking to a trump voter (what does this tell us is likely about this person?) you’re talking to a trump voter who is willing to publicly defend their behavior (what does this tell us about…

Somewhere there’s at least one attorney already compiling a case file for a plaintiff to be named when run over by a “fully self driving car”. But who will be named as defendant? The programmers? The car’s maker? The gormless passenger who didn’t grab the wheel fast enough? The city council for allowing such unproven…

Looking for a dead simple heuristic of which side of any action would be healthier for society? Just pursue the opposite of anything Comcast or Verizon want the FCC to do. (and if Ajit Pais is involved, triple that conviction)

skip the glyph and go screenwriter! place any subtle emotion between delimiters like a with play:

Now for the all-critical question: was the dog in the full astronaut suit in a few scenes around The Collector’s digs from the Guardians of the Galaxy film supposed to somehow be Laika?

Plutocrats can’t write (hence ghostwriters). So all those brave union joiners ought to get together and establish “The Union Gazette” (or any number of other nouns for “Union” to modify: “Reporter”, “Journal”, “Intelligencer”, “Sun”, ...) The masthead should read “Union fellowship from the top to the bottom”. (Karl…

hm... can you be “badass” without any speed? These things are in the meter per minute range — wake me when NASA is doing donuts on the red planet. (“energy consumption curves, solar panel, no way to correct dangerous course with 9 minutes of round trip telemetry, battery energy density, ..yaddayadda” yeah yeah:…

If an “AI” system is fundamentally a trained neural network, then by their traditional structure alone (hidden layers) there will be persistent curious glitches of this sort. It’s unavoidable when you don’t know, and typically don’t care, what distinguishing features gave rise to your “97.3% accuracy!” assertion based…

So does every planet in the marvel universe have its own world serpent, fire troll, Fenrir, etc or just on the marvel planet Asgard? The marvel universe seems to grant a planet for each of these large characters (instead of some far away region over there all on earth).

old-biochemist here to cast a wooden shoe into some machinery; you say: