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IN WHICH I WAS THE SHEEP:   At the arena in Charlotte this week -- again, not that we're talking about why I was in Charlotte -- they ha...

THIS COULD BE A PROBLEM FOR KNOPE 2016: We don't normally traffic in celebrity gossip, but news that Will Arnett and Amy Poehler are se...

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WARP SPEED, JUSTICE SCALIA: Io9 helpfully catalogs a number of judicial references to Star Trek .  Live long and prosper, my friends.

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