Mike Godwin

"Perfect, Mr. Glass. No notes!"

Sure, Bovino's been fired, but a just punishment should at least include a requirement that he wear his trench coat, ideally with jackboots, outdoors all summer in El Centro.

Note on Philip Glass stationery: “After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony #15 ‘Lincoln’ from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony #15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center user its current leadership.” Followed by a handwritten signature and the printed name “Philip Glass.”

Always the minimalist.

Here among adults, we don’t expect 100 percent of anyone’s school class to have the same experience and traits. I know this will freak you out, but diversity of backgrounds is more likely than demographic sameness. Plus, how do newly instantiated hologram people acquire the trauma you insist on?

Less an assumption than an inference about your age, based on your declaration about “fantasy.” It could be an incorrect inference, of course, but you haven’t shown me it’s incorrect just yet. Perhaps once I see the syllabus of your science-fiction course, I’ll know more.

When the histories are written, scholars will speculate as to why the Administration didn’t anticipate how inventive Minnesotans can be at coping with ice.

It’s science fiction, whose raison d'être, as Verne might have pointed out, is showing how science and the future expand the real world rather than keep it out. If you read more deeply in science fiction’s range and variety, you’ll see it offers much more than endless variants of Star Wars sequels.

The Australian social media ban seems destined for fines against tech companies for failure to take "reasonable steps" to remove children. The difficulty is that to really identify all children--including children using their parents' accounts--you need draconian steps. 1/

Our Minnesotans are, let’s face it, big-hearted and humane and courageous in ways that set good examples for us all. I see their bravery reinforcing that of other Americans who oppose of turning USA into Stalag 17. (Bovine aimed for 17 but there’s a distinct Stalag 13 odor around him.)

They would have if you’d ponied up for the premium Substack subscription.

Your time in a service academy avoided cadets and midshipmen altogether, am I right? Was this at West Point or Annapolis?

Asked and answered.

I just can't accept the claim that religious conservatives support Trump because they believe he disproves the theory of evolution.

If you’ve posted ten or more times in one or more online forums about your problems with STARFLEET ACADEMY, your problems aren’t really with STARFLEET ACADEMY.

They prefer to explain their choice to be evil as a matter of immigration policy.

Asked and answered in 2015, 2017, 2024, etc. But GL isn't statutory law. It's a law of physics. Also: suspending laws is what the Other Side does.

Asked and answered in 2015, 2017, 2024, etc. But GL isn't statutory law. It's a law of physics. Also: suspending laws is what the Other Side does.

Well, I guess this counts as a TACO Thursday.

Paramount's promotion fooled the haters into proclaiming in advance that STARFLEET ACADEMY would be ONE TREK HILL. Nice prank!

Perhaps we can find common ground over our belief that good people should not be erased. For example, that's what I think about Renee Good. And it's what you think about the guy in the Cracker Barrel logo.

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

Do good, so it will buffer you between your hypomanic intervals.

Real men aren't afraid to admit that they're overdue for their mani-pedi.

Kind of.

Right there with you. But I've admired her for all the decades now.

I try to leave enough clues to make my readers happy when they get it.

She can sit in the captain's chair any way she wants to. And if you don't like it, you can take it up with her. But I wouldn't try it.

So we shouldn't say we wish to see a rain of volcanic lava and meteorite showers abolish every last vestige of ICE from the face of the Earth?

Okay, I realized instantly that STARFLEET ACADEMY is going to be a great show when I saw that the Wall of Honor at the re-opened Academy in the 32nd century includes "ADM TAWNY NEWSOME."

Supertramp was very popular in the USA in the 1970s, and the meaning of the Logical Song didn’t need to communicate “public school” (in the English sense) for the song to resonate with U.S. listeners.