Yeah, go fuck yourself.

Trump started complaining about how Japan was taking us for a free ride back in 1987, when the Cold War was still very much on. Oh, and he did that right after his first visit to the Soviet Union. Hmmmmm......

Being dead while Black is apparently also a thing.

Never mind

Hmm. I’m 52, and most of the people in my friends group, some of whom I’ve known for decades, are single. True, some of them are divorced, but when I think of who comes to my dinner parties, in a group of 25 their might be two married couples, one or two long-term but not married couples, and the rest singles. Age…

They would have dropped something. A lot of somethings. It’s unlikely they could have cleaned the area of all evidence of Roman presence.

I was a college student for eleven years and lived in dorms for a lot of that period. I never once called the cops on someone I didn’t recognize and I never heard of anyone else doing it either. I don’t know what “normal” you are talking about.

Basic research is how science advances. Sometimes it produces practical results, sometimes not. Sometimes the relevance both in general knowledge and real-world impact is not understood till long after.

I mean, how could women make such an outrageous choice, right? It’s a complete and total mystery we may never understand. Anyway, I have to go now. I’m late for my “Shoe-Tying for Adults, How The Hell Don’t You Know How To Do This Yet?” class.

So basically, they are forcing her into a doping regimen. Absurd.

It gets even better. He actually drove it to his apartment and left it in the parking lot, but he wasn’t charged because no one saw him in the vehicle.

Followed by an appointment to the directorship of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms.

Do you hear yourself talk? The mental gymnastics you have to go through to insist that someone shooting themselves with a gun is not a “gun death” is beyond comprehension. It’s just absurd. Guess what? There is a well-established link between gun ownership and suicide, just as there is a well-established link between…

Guess what? The largest single cause of gun deaths is gun suicides. So no, even when you try to distract from the issue by talking about suicide, you just manage to point out that we have a serious gun problem.

Some time ago, I was in a personal thing that didn’t work out the way I had hoped, and later I was talking to a friend about and I said. “Well, the heart wants what it wants, and the corollary is it doesn’t want what it doesn’t want.” But then I thought, where does that line come from.? Some bad movie? So I looked it…

John Bolton, the man most likely to get us into a nuclear war.

He was in a bind. The NYC field office had had the laptop for a month and did nothing with it. Rudy G., who has friends in the NYC office, then starts claiming that there is something big about to come out - i.e. the laptop, with supposedly damning evidence on HRC. Comey realizes the laptop hasn’t been examined, and…

Diffraction spikes are common in photos of stars. It’s a product of the internal architecture of reflecting telescopes, as light diffracts around the poles that hold one of the mirrors.

Wait, is that a curved horizon I see? Why you’d almost think the world was round or something.

I got dragged against my will to a Chris Matthews thing the other day. It was him and two other guys - I think 98% of the words were spoken by Matthews. He just wouldn’t let anyone else talk. They must have producers yelling in his earpiece on his show to get him to stop one in a while.