Sagan was actually instrumental in dispelling, “Venus: Jungle Planet” It was him and a team of other scientists who interpreted radio telescope data, bounced back from the surface of Venus, to indicate a runaway greenhouse.

Starred for the Cold War cartoon.

Huxley’s great insight was that we could ruin ourselves with self-indulgence. Or, maybe, that the powers that be will use self-indulgence to rule us.

Now this is cosplay I can actually enjoy!

Virtual tabletops happened. Now everyone is using workspaces and VoIP on the Internet to run there games with players scattered all over the planet.

All the stars for this, even though I still can’t give them when there is no number to click in the first place since the Kinja update.

Some of us can bypass this just by renting a connection plan from the carrier of choice, getting a SIM card and then building our own smart phones.

It’s time we consider a universal basic income seriously:

“What Happened to Hilton’s ‘Hotel on the Moon?’”

Damon, a darling of the left, and I say that as a lefty, has inadvertently provided us all with a teaching exercise.

“On some level we are all shallow when it comes to dating, and that’s nothing to apologize for because it’s how it works.”

Well, there certainly is that too. I keep my work and personal life strictly separate so, I understand what you’re getting at here.

As a guy, the gal friends I know seem to be enlightened enough to not really say obviously sexist things. However I do know a few gals at work who go in for those stereotyping, “men are like, women are like” jokes. Mostly I just let it pass over in silence because I don’t want to get into a discussion like that at…

“Why couldn’t a man say, for instance, that he really likes you and gets the feeling you like him back, but, hey, he could be wrong. Then you could say you did or didn’t share his interest. And that would be that. I can’t decide what is sadder: That this is so simple, or that it’s so unlikely.”

Yet another reason why we need robot cars.

Whoops, mispost, sorry.

And if it’s subjective, nobody gets to make anybody else feel bad about it, right? Are tampons gross? Are atheletic supporters? Are prostate exams? Maybe some people think they are but they don’t get to make the people who use such things, who have to use such things, feel bad about any of it.

I’m a straight guy who considers himself a feminist but, sorry, if your women friends said or think this, they’re wrong. And if they use vibrators or dildos, alone or with others, to get off, they can’t throw stones.

The mighty engine of progress is fueled by the tears of old white men afraid of the future.

Thanks for confirming why I’ll never waste my time with anything that Jalopnik runs.