Franklin Harris has a theory on why comics and Hollywood are angling for superhero and action hero diversity.

The restoration of Gladiator school!

And the eyes of a parched California turn towards Israel…

The Keystone XL Pipeline may have been killed, but the Dakota Access Pipeline never became a symbolic cause. Not that it isn’t without its objectors, however.

I’m inclined to agree with Robert Pondiscio, here. I support as many alternative models to college as we can make work, and people should be cost-conscious, but that means being aware of the costs (tangible and intangible) of not going the traditional route.

Because people, I assume.

It’s hard to build affordable housing because it’s not affordable. I definitely believe it to be the case that city mice are much more worried about inequality because there are a lot more zero-sum commodities. Like real estate.

Wait now, who hated the VCR? (Other than the MPAA, of course.)

Kids today! When I was young, it was no television that was the punishment.

We may have to come up with a new fable. Many worker bees, apparently, are kind of lazy. This has to be a product of mound tax and benefit policy, right?

Richard Marshall interviewed Costica Bradatan about murdering philosophers.

State lines – or in this case provincial ones – can lead to weird results (see also, Texarkana).

Ever wonder what abandoned Soviet space shuttles look like? Here ya go.

Jonathan Last illustrates the excuses that the Trumpists will have lined up after November, if things don’t go well. I think things are going to settle on #8.

Donald Trump has released an attack ad. Against Bernie Sanders.

The Juggalos are marching on Washington, DC.