That is totally cool. My first instinct was to wonder why he would film any of it in a studio, and then I realized that of course there were a bunch of scenes that wouldn't make sense to film in actual conditions. Duh. If you're talking about what I assume you are, those would have been tough scenes to shoot.

They did seem to have an aversion to wading in the evacuation in Hardhome.

Are you trying to get your coworker's fiancee's daughter to help you sell paper?

It's one of those books where you probably need to be an adult reader to see the places where the author is pointing out all of the collateral damage Claudia is doing and how little reason she has to run away. I read it as a kid and pretty much took what Claudia was saying at face value, but reading it more recently…

Also, Congressman Rohrabacher asked a NASA scientist at a hearing this week what kind of evidence NASA had about Martian civilizations. The scientist replied as politely as he could that there's not even clear evidence microbes ever existed there.

It's impossible to say since the Bernie Bro phenomenon was so nebulous to begin with. Having said that, there is a notable uptick in the number of Democrats organizing new challenges on various levels.

The problem goes even deeper than that. Michigan went for Trump in large part because voters in places like Detroit and Flint stayed home. Elected Democrats in those cities, like John Conyers, didn't activate get out the vote campaigns because they would prefer smaller turnouts that they know they can win versus…

Sanders himself is a perfect example of how to do it. He failed four times in various elections before finally getting elected as the mayor of Burlington Vermont, population 38,000. He then won a seat in the House of Representatives before later winning his US Senate seat.

Satan was all set to pull one of his contract fine print tricks on Walker by winning his soul in exchange for delivering something rich and golden every day, and then disappoint Walker with a daily slice of cheese.

My son was in daycare with a girl who went unvaccinated for a legitimate reason. Due to a bout with bone cancer as a baby, her immune system was too weak to risk some vaccines.

I've vaccinated the crap out of my kids and my big complaint about the process is the number of times you have to do it. I wish they could have a one time shot where the nurse sticks a needle the size of a turkey baster into the kid's arm and pumps in 100ccs of every vaccine ever invented.

At the risk of missing an obvious joke here, it's an obvious joke.

Apollo 13 is one of the best space movies ever. It does a fantastic job conveying both how hard and how amazing space flight must be, and all of the fascinating little details of how it works. The Houston scenes are also a ton of fun and really capture the sense of working with a collection of people completely…

I missed something — did the Doctor summon another elevator as quickly as he could, and everything that happened to Bill was going on (due to the closer distance to the black hole) while he was waiting for another one to arrive? Or did he sit around talking about the gravitational effects on time for a while before…

One of the those boxes of ultrapasteurized milk that comes with a teeny tiny straw would have been appropriate.

I always suspected that his big conversion at the end was a fraud and he would be crashlanding airplanes in a few years.

The Moomintroll books are great, although I wonder what kids think of the change in tone as the books progress. The early ones are bursting with fun, while the later ones are so… Swedish.

When your toddler wakes up at 5 am and you are so tired you can barely function, books like Rosemary Wells's My Kindergarten and Richard Scarry's Cars And Trucks And Things That Go are the best. The stories are entertaining, but the best parts are the illustrations are so detailed and the books are so long that kids…

The obvious question about the book is how far it delves into Hoover's status, as the gossip columns would put it, as a "lifelong bachelor" and how it drove the intensity of his focus on Baldwin.

The good news is that some responsible fishing and conservation of Chilean seabass is happening, to the point where the Monterey Bay Aquarium is OK with it from a few places. The trouble is that labeling for fish is pretty awful, so even if someone is trying to do the right thing, there's no good way to know whether…