Day: May 4, 2020

Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Commencements, Conniptions, and Crazy People

Andrew Donaldson May 4, 2020

College graduates that did it live online, VP pick silly season, and Very Online v the normies...

Star Wars And the Rule of Cool The Empire Strikes BAck

Star Wars And the Rule of Cool

Michael Siegel May 4, 2020

As a scientist, I know everything in the Star Wars universe is ridiculous, impractical and overblown. And...

100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 5: The 1960s Fav 1960s Films Header

100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 5: The 1960s

Luis A. Mendez May 4, 2020

I'm now half-way through this series and I truly hope I have given out some new titles...

Testing Ain’t Easy: LA Edition coronavirus testing

Testing Ain’t Easy: LA Edition

Andrew Donaldson May 4, 2020

No matter what gets said at new conferences, things like "we are going to test X amount...

Piled High & Deeper 2020-05-04 Joy 4023 PhD crop

Piled High & Deeper

Clare Briggs May 4, 2020

1928 Edition

Carl Schwent on Cats Are The Best: An Annotated ListAmong historical figures who loved cats, I'll add Andy Warhol and his famous 25 cats all named Sam.
Dark Matter in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025If sane people refuse to talk to Trump then everything he hears will be from inside his bubble. Whit…
Dark Matter in reply to DavidTC on Gender Critical: Legally Defining SexHowever, as neither of those proposals are on the table, I don’t know why we’re talking about them.…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Gender Critical: Legally Defining SexPlease supply links to a few of these groups calling for sports to be mixed by eliminating women's s…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Governor Whitmer decided to commit political suicide yesterday: https://apnews.com/article/whitmer-t…
KenB in reply to Jaybird on Cats Are The Best: An Annotated ListThat first cat was the only one we got where the intention to get a cat was the first step of the pr…
David TC in reply to InMD on Gender Critical: Legally Defining SexA lot of this comes down to whether or not one believes that womens’ equality depends in some part o…
David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Gender Critical: Legally Defining SexThen they’ll lose in most sports. That's completely irrelevant to the point being made here. Your cl…
LeeEsq in reply to Burt Likko on Open Mic for the Week of 4/28/2025Possibly. I think running away from Clinton hurt Gore more than it helped in the 2000 election.
Slade the Leveller in reply to Michael Cain on Cats Are The Best: An Annotated ListWhen I owned a house on the NW side of Chicago, there was a feral cat colony nearby. They must have…