Mortal Manners

Observation: Never make an apology at a funeral.

Best Actor in a Quarterbacking Role

The NFL is like the most successful movie franchise in the history of everything. Every year, another sequel, another box office smash, followed by another sequel the next year. There's conflict, back story, subplots, adversity, and triumph. Not everybody likes the ending but they have hope - even in Detroit - their heroes may be featured in the final frames of next season's Best Picture winner. There are plenty of opportunities for star turns in supporting roles but let's state the obvious: The quarterbacks are the leads, the nominees for Best Actor, and the focus of our vicarious, sepia-toned dreams. 

Star Power

 Will Aaron Rodgers play another snap for the Green Bay Packers?

I hope not.

I get that it's professional football. It's a job like any other that pays you in millions, and you don't have to love something just because you do it well, but…

Seriously dude; why are you playing football?

Cryptic

I'm reminded that Sir Isaac Newton wasn't knighted for his many contributions to science and apple picking; he became Sir Isaac because of his work standardizing Great Britain's currency.

Money. We've always thought it was more important than gravity. Or math. Or the universe.

How many bitcoin in a shilling? Or is that how many shillings in a bitcoin?

Strangers

Did some people have mothers who didn't tell them, "Don't talk to strangers?"

Monster Lovers

I feel like I'm a little bit late to this party - it seems so obvious now - but have you noticed how in every monster movie ever made there's always one character (more often than not the mad scientist to blame for whatever it was that happened in Act 1) who wants to save the monster? They want to stop the shrinking number of humans involved in the narrative from killing it, figure out some way to communicate with it, study it, reanimate the flesh of a dead woman to provide the monster with a mate, maybe move it to a small farm in upstate Vermont.

I'm more of a nuke the site from orbit kind of guy.

Past as Polaroid

Science has developed technology that will allow human beings to see 11 billion years into the past.