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Still is. Wasn't it so fucked up that you'd regularly have winters in the middle of July sometimes? No, July wasn't created until Julius Caesar's calendar reform which mostly stabilized the calendar until the Gregorian Reformation a millenium and a half later, which only had to correct a week and a...

Poor Laas. Hopefully he came back to DS9 once he realized that he had been infected and was then pointed to the Great Link.

"What the hell, dude! I thought you said that you were clean!"

None of the crew of the E-D learned a damn thing from 'All Good Things', possibly excepting Picard learning to be more sociable. Out of universe reasons for lack of in universe consequences don't render 'Yesterday's Enterprise' an any less well done reset button episode, so why Chuck went 'All good...

So Chuck posted his review of the first episode of A Game of Thrones a few days ago. He said that he hasn't read the books yet and so he assumed the worst of Jaime, who isn't quite as bad a guy as he first appears. I was especially amused that Chuck got Jorah Mormont's name wrong, calling him Jon Co...

I was about 90% or more through when I paused it and then lost my place when I started it again. Oh well.

"The Beginning" was great. Finally Arnold J. Rimmer got his moment of glory.

I don't believe this for a second. First off, the Express is an unreliable piece of shit tabloid, and in the article the sources are extremely vague. "Film mole"? "Industry insider"? Pah. If the next trilogy is a conventional sequel to the OT, then there is no way in hell Disney...

Darth Vader to be resurrected DARTH VADER TO BE RESURRECTED Tuesday November 13,2012 By Lizzie Catt, Lisa Higgins and Jack Teague ICONIC space villain Darth Vader is to be brought back from the dead for a new trilogy of Star Wars films. Following news that Disney has bought the rights to the lucrat...

And I just got an email to renew my subscription today...

(I won't. It was on my last, junked PC anyway.)

Good news: no need to worry about peak oil after all! (beyond some inevitable price increases)

Bad news: the climate is FUCKED.

Welp, humanity had a good 3 million year run.

Even if the transwarp conduit seen in "Endgame" that led directly to Sector 001 was a very recent construction, the Borg had around 50 cubes next to that transwarp hub that could have launched a full scale assault on the heart of the Federation in minutes. What were they waiting for? Ultim...

If I'd have to venture a guess I'd say the reason Jellico is so not hated (because I don't think it ever amounted to him actually being 'loved') is because he is the, at the time, first Starfleet officer who actually behaves like he thinks he's serving in a military , and so are his (for the time b...

Section 31 is an unaccountable renegade organization. Saying they're a "necessary evil" is tantamount to believing that we should just let the CIA off the leash completely to perform whatever assassinations, torture, and sabotage they see as necessary without the advice or consent of any ...

There is no "War on Coal". Or if there is, it's being waged by the natural gas industry.

Yeah. The new generation is certainly more liberal on social issues (hence why same-sex marriage is winning), but don't be too excited and think that they'd be liberal on everything. The Tea Party to some extent IS made up of younger guys. Only Ron Paul's movement. And they can't even win in the Re...

Because U.S. elections are zero sum, the Republicans can still win the presidency, but only if the Democrats have a massive fuckup like a stupid war or economic collapse. In a normal, cyclical recession, the Democrats would probably still have the advantage unless the Republicans can find their equi...

News stories confirmed that Romney's internal pollsters really were deluded. They thought the demographic makeup would be like 2004 and 2010 and that 2008 was just a fluke. Just like Gallup, who wound up with the worst polling of the cycle.

Would Hillary Clinton even be likely to run in 2016? I mean, by 2016, she's going to be 69-70 years old. I could've seen her running this year if Obama's first term had been a complete clusterfuck and he had no hope of winning the nomination ... but in four years a President-elect Clinton will as o...

Republicans might start reconsidering their position after President Hillary Clinton's reelection in 2020. But I doubt it.

Actually I think they've given up on shifting further to the right, if only because there's no room left to move on that side.

Now they think it's all a matter of better marketing. Conservatism is perfect; they just need to find the right salesman! Who is apparently Rubio.

Turns out that Tagg Romney does not own voting machines in Ohio. The GOP voter suppression effort is still a concern, though. That was always silly. "I bought shares in your company, so you must commit electoral fraud for my dad."? Not plausible. I am concerned about the software patches ...

Does this mean that Star Wars will be in the next Kingdom Hearts?

Bob Iger just announced that The Walt Disney Company is acquiring Lucasfilm – the global entertainment company founded by George Lucas and the home of the legendary Star Wars franchise. No! In addition to getting the rights to one of the greatest family franchises and epic stories of all time, Disn...

Did anyone else watch episode 4? It definitely seemed like the weakest one so far. Sort of like basing an entire episode on the luck virus instead of just using it as a convenient plot device.

I'm rooting for an Obama electoral vote victory but a Romney popular vote victory. It would be payback for 2000 and would provoke maximum furious rage on the right. Also, it would probably motivate the effective end of the electoral college (or at least permanently tying it to the national popular v...