Yup. On the “movies that are competency porn” slideshow article, I commented, “what, no love for “The Hunt for Red October”?

The sad thing is that the younger generation has the same biases. I’m a prof, with the same kind of office as other profs. If they’re not in their office and my door is open, I’ll have undergrads asking me if I can make an appointment for them to meet with Prof. Whatshisname in the office next to mine. So, yeah, I’m…

Somewhere in Florida, a 7-11 clerk hears about this and heads for the nearest swamp to grab an alligator....

Got the first one; getting the second in about 12 days. I’m a fainter (sorry, “subject to vasovagal syncope”) when I get shots. So I know the warning signs of when I’m about to go. A couple minutes after getting the shot and while waiting in the “watching for side effects” area, I started feeling woozy and was able to…

Heck, TX lieutenant governor Dan Patrick said the quiet part out loud....basically said that old people should be willing to sacrifice themselves to save the economy.

Yeah, I’m sitting here in the Spring Break capital of the world waiting for the resulting spike to happen, hoping the first shot I got a few days ago will help.

“Happy Columbus Day from people who wouldn’t exist if not for the Trans Atlantic Slave trade,”

“Nick Loeb, Stacey Dash, Joey Lawrence, Jon Voight....”

I’m torn, because I’m a scientist and I love space exploration (the Perseverance landing was awesome after four years of corruption and despair). But Gil Scott-Heron (and Bernie Sanders) had a point. (Google “Whitey’s on the moon” if you don’t know the reference)

DeathSantis is too busy running for President. On the platform that he opened Florida up to save its economy. He ain’t gonna do sh*t to promote a shutdown.

Yeah, I thought all the dead were composted.  They can’t afford to waste ANY resources on that train.  Wilford made a comment to Melanie as he was threatening to kill everyone on Snowpiercer (before she tricked him by coupling the trains permanently) that he was going to make her spend years composting every single…

Elon Musk will forever be “Space Karen”.  That’s your title, Elon.

Well, the vaccines were delivered by “Israeli Air” or something like that, so that might have been a nod to the whole antisemitic angle of QAnon beliefs about how Bill Gates and the Deep State* and the Hollywood Elites** are putting nanotrackers in the vaccine.

Hmmpf. Don’t insult the dogs by comparing them to Republicans. I can understand the younger one’s freakout....the number of people he’s interacting with daily has gone up by a couple orders of magnitude; his mom’s super-busy; his dad comes home from work smelling of all sorts of weird strangers.  I’ll give him the…

The Earth can support 7 billion people because of the Haber-Bosch process that produces fertilizer. Half of the nitrogen atoms in your body came from a chemical plant and the ammonia and nitrates it pumped out. Without chemical fertilizer, the yields of agriculture would be cut in half, starving half the population.

Well....as a former Baskin-Robbins employee....I did appreciate the line “Baskin Robbins don’t play.”  But it’s only now that I realize that TI was the guy in the movie. 

“because Lebeouf seems normal”

Yeah, he was originally scheduled to fly back on Saturday. Until he was found out. So he changed his return flight and his story.

Yup. Rick Perry, Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, and this a-hole are all on record saying that Texans should be willing to give up their lives for things like “staying independent of the federal govt”, “the economy”, and “owning the libs”.

What irritates me is the fact that several of the GOP senators are clearly blowing this off....either kicking back with their feet up like surly 8 year olds, or doing sudoko or geography quizzes, or just being absent.