He was also not related to the later Gandhi dynasty of Indian politics.

Also, while we’re at it, “Mahatma” wasn’t his name; it was an honorific. His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Always remember: Hanlon’s Razor is a good starting point, but it does not require you to keep attributing destructive acts to incompetence once the evidence of malice starts to pile up.

Hey! Leave Velma out of this!

Which monument is he going to bulldoze to make room on the Mall for it?

It’s always bothered me that Chomsky’s supporters in the academy are frequently, and accurately, called his “disciples”. Scientists do not have “disciples”. If you have a coterie of followers who can be credibly termed “disciples”, then what you are doing is not science.

I have a nose ring!

This is enraging. Every single one of these illegal detentions is enraging, but this one takes the cake.

The question now becomes, did Donald Trump know he was fobbing cheap knockoffs onto Charlie, or did he genuinely believe they were the genuine article? Or was it some weird quantum superposition of the two states? Or did he not even think it mattered?

There you are, on an expedition into the jungles of Borneo, when an orangutan knuckle-walks up to you, and in some vague approximation of human speech, asks you for some pearls of wisdom from your advanced civilization. What do you even say? “Uh… the trick is to bang the rocks together, guys!”