It's not that he's sorry, it's that here's some money and now shut up.

Does settling out of court count as "atoning"?

"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
- The President

I don't know — do people actually watch that show?

He played Julian Bashir's dad in an episode of DS9.

He's come a long way from just wanting his kids back.

Yep, and he switched them off, which made no one feel too good.

I was thinking asari spaceship if inertial dampers failed mid-jump.

Good observation. Still feel like it was a bit odd in the moment, but I can get past it.

Yeah, I read an interview with one of the showrunners today where he said basically they aren't throwing out the physics, just showing a technological level that exceeds the capabilities of humans in the show, and that's why Naomi had that line about the huge amount of waste heat. So that made me feel a bit better. I…

I think that's a good way of describing it. Baseball is just the sound (and sight) of summer. Football is a once-a-week party.

Endorse. Also, what's with the constant mound visits? The catcher doesn't need to run out to the mound after every pitch.

I was so into it that I was just refreshing the Twitter feed on my phone every time my car stopped in interminable stop-and-go traffic through downtown.

It's been 12 years. Time to let it go.

This change is dumb, and also Max Scherzer is awesome.

It felt kind of like a jumping-the-shark moment. We'll see. There was still a lot to like about this episode, but I was liking the way the show's universe had been established without the laws of physics being discarded.

I had mixed feelings about this episode — it was definitely a step, a deliberate step, away from the hard sci-fi in which the show has been grounded up to this point. I hope there's a narrative payoff to that "breaking all the rules" at some point in the future. And for maybe the first time as well, it seemed like…

It left me kinda cold for some reason.

I was just the right age to love Shrek and Shrek 2 when they were released (fuck the rest of the franchise). But while I'll still watch them if they're on TV, for me, the similarly sly and subversive The Emperor's New Groove (their Disney contemporary, as noted) holds up better. A lot of the Shrek appeal was the…

I run everything through an English-to-porpoise translator, so it just comes out as shrieks and squeals. It's much more soothing that way.