Distant relation of Herb.

My favorite line (albeit I may not have it exactly word for word): "Please refrain from shooting at the thermonuclear weapon."

Seen today: The world's least relevant question.

At a current time in which merely speaking Spanish in public in the US can literally get you arrested deported or killed, the site of such a joyous celebration of Spanish-speaking culture as fun, inclusive and fundamentally AMERICAN was in its own way deeply and rightly political.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

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Is the long lead time a production issue or a market choice?

Took me a moment then I got it. Nice.

"End the war instantly" can be read in several ways, most of which are not good.

I bought the Kindle edition for $2.99 about an hour ago. I just checked and I see the same price, good for another 11 hours.

45 hours of life you may want back some day. For future reference, you can safely skip the shower curtain articles.

In the US the Kindle edition is on sale for $2.99.

My birthday is January 28. The shuttle accidents, the Apollo 1 fire, and my father's death all happened on or near that date. Hmmmm.

Another chapter in the continuing series, Why it's Good Not to Have Heroes.

Some quick research. My Jewish Trek share.google/paKfY4mg4tUC...

I had no clue.

Menagerie?

And The Best of Both Worlds.

I've always wondered what the Jewish Nimoy and Shatner felt about doing a commercial for Christianity.

On February 28, 1966, the prime crew for Gemini 9, Elliot See and Charles Bassett, were killed when their T-38 crashed while attempting to land in St Louis. The end of the month will be the sixtieth anniversary of this tragic accident.

Neglected Visions is an interesting anthology compiled by Barry Malzberg. In particular see E for Effort, an exceptionally bleak story.

Great film.

Thiessen is not ignorant He knows exactly what he is doing, which is to deploy bad faith arguments, no matter how outrageous, to promote his agenda. I'd say it is a disgrace for the Washington Post to carry his column, except that argument is now inoperative.

The new WaPo — a classier version of National Enquirer. I assume there will be a full page of horoscopes.

The NBC network in the US tried this once with an NFL game. It was not well received and never repeated.

Agreed. We should all be trained like the Mentats from Dune.

On rare occasions, even in politics, things are simple. He buddied-up with Epstein *after* Epstein was a known pedophile. Starmer and his aides knew this. That should have been instantly disqualifying. Any other decision is inexcusable.

The man looks like he is perpetually startled. It's also interesting in that in one role -- prosecutor -- he is substantive and serious, but in another role -- PM -- he is an empty suit. Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, except Hyde is a void.

When I was a grad student at alma mater I always thought the exam question which would be most perfectly attuned to the undergrads’ status neuroses would be: “how would world history have been different if Yamamoto had studied at UPenn rather than Harvard?”

With the size most monitors are now, any advantage of collapsing scrollbars to a few pixels wide, when not in use, is completely outweighed by how much more difficult they are to find and use. Thanks Microsoft.

One commentator described Graham as a "feckless charlatan." Sounds about right.