A simple solution: Appoint an independent counsel to investigate the problems at Baylor. I nominate William Jefferson Clinton.

These are not the 72 virgins they were expecting.

A surprising nickname I found? “Spoons” Butler. A lawyer and Union soldier who came up with the idea during the Civil War that, because escaped slaves were “contraband” they should be freed if they made it to the north. Kind of started the ball rolling on Emancipation.

I read it this morning. It’s amazing!

I WILL KILL HIM!

After spending so much time on last weeks puzzle, I’m having a lot of trouble trying to figure out how I’m supposed to do this one:

Samwell! Not Samwise!

Spielberg should’ve use this version though. Really ads extra emotion.

It's both. Climate changes would no doubt come and go regardless of our existence...but Climate Change is a definite phenomena where our presence is hastening the pendulum swing of nature, to the point that we may not be able to successfully adapt to it quickly enough.

Best Iain M. Banks tribute ever. Elon Musk tweeted that he's naming two SpaceX droneships after Culture ships in Banks' The Player of Games. One drone ship will be called Just Read The Instructions, and the other will be Of Course I Still Love You. [via Tor.com]

Good. I'm glad you liked it. Glad. You. Liked. It.

"There is surveillance video showing the attendant taking the footballs from the official's locker room into another room at Gillette Stadium before bringing them out to the field, sources tell FOX Sports."

What the hell kind of poop water is solid goddamn black like that? Not any poop water I've ever seen!

As things like this become more commonplace, The Future will inevitably lose its wonder and will simply be The Present to us. Like ... drones ... in a ... hobby shop ...

We must bring them the metal.

They're in a fake spaceship on real earth that's been taken over by machines keeping humans alive for their heat power, but the machines are actually people tapping into a virtual reality world that don't realize that they're actually AI artifacts designed by people experimenting with virtual reality in the distant…