I’m glad I waited until late in the day to award the Stupidest Fucking Thing We’ll Read Today prize!  Here you go.

I’m glad I waited until late in the day to award the Stupidest Fucking Thing We’ll Read Today prize!  Here you go.

And another leg of the Frasier Prophecy clicks into place.  The salad is tossed, and soon the eggs will be scrambled.

quasi-sentient toilets at best.

I think it’s been a few weeks since you checked, then - we’re up in the 20,000 Benghazi territory now.

He should make like a tree and get outta here.

Although that aside, it’s great to have a reminder that he’s dead.  We all need a pick-me-up in these dark days, so thanks!

No, it was on Facebook, although I can’t rule out the possibility that it was the same person (I don’t generally go on Reddit).  I think it’s more likely that their mutual echo chambers had just sent out the day’s instructions on how to own the libs.

Literally saw someone (real person) yesterday claiming that Trump wasn’t racist because there wasn’t a clip of him saying “I am racist.”  You might be inclined to think I’m exaggerating there; I most definitely am not.  

Yeah, he was definitely mid-bender for this one.

20th Amendment, but yes.

We’re all talking about “another wave” as if this exact sort of thing isn’t going to just keep the first wave going indefinitely.

I loved Seveneves start to finish, but I don’t know if there would be any need at all for a followup, even with the possibilities raised in the last few pages. I mean, if he did, I’d read it day one.

Yeah, Fall was something, all right. I liked it, but will have to get in for a re-read at some point to really figure…

“It’s not called ‘Parts of Moon Fall,’ dammit!”

All this is to say that Seveneves covered the same ground in much, much better fashion, but I’d still definitely watch the Emmerich disaster movie. They are usually dumb fun blasts.

Yeah, Seveneves (one word) is broadly similar in that respect only, but WAY more into the realm of hard (er) sci-fi, and covered very different ground than the McDevitt book did.  

But at least that one didn’t share the damn title! There’s no possible way no one involved with the production ever ran their proposed title through Google.  (and, since I’ve read the book and can say this, it’s 100% straight up Emmerich’s alley.)

Sure.

I have a vague memory of reading several years back that this is the movie adaptation of that book, but I can’t find anything this morning to confirm.  There’s no conceivable way they could have gotten this far without it coming up if the rights somehow weren’t secured.

According to the very brief IMDB synopsis and also the plot of the book it’s based on, another body collides with the Moon and causes this. It isn’t just “oh, weird, the Moon’s off all of a sudden.” (edit: I can’t find confirmation it’s based on the book, but it would be a spectacular whoopsie if they somehow didn’t…

This, and plainclothes officers should not be able to execute raids like this.

Honestly, if we manage to make it another 26 years at this rate it’d be victory enough.