Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested

Applied "No Means No"

Alien symbols

The Newspaper of Record cannot deal with last names that have spaces in them. Of course, it's not them; it's the computer people. Did anyone write a viciously satirical sf story in which many futuristic systems would replace the simple apostrophe with one of a dozen bits of gibberish that look like the ways comic strips represented Bad Words?

Thanx to Making Light.

Inability to defer gratification

There are areas in which I recognize my own deficiencies, and I have mixed feelings about how many of my fellow Americans fall short of even the abysmal standard I set. Unable to live in the moment, I find myself starting to look forward to next year's NFL draft. But wait! The discussion of that future began on the NFL Web sites as soon as this year's draft ended.

It's even worse in an area I find much less fun. The second term of Barack Obama has not yet begun, and as we all know, it will last for four years. Nevertheless, many of those Paul Krugman calls the Very Serious People cannot control their excitement over the question of whether Hillary Clinton will succeed him. Charles P. Pierce discusses.

Scientifically correct

Scientists discuss the sf that gets their specialties right.

Thanx to andrewducker

The Sturch* strikes again

In a horrible example of what happens when you don't have separation of church & state, the British government has denied religious freedom to many believers and their clergy.
*Thank you, Philip Jose Farmer

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Good question

Why are dead people liking stuff on Facebook?

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Happy Double Number of the Beast Day, everybody.

Biggest news since the Dewey administration

Mandate Struck Down and other errors and corrections from 2012.