This may be one of those cases where the cure can become as harmful as the disease, but to do anything about it would mean making really controversial grey-zone decisions about where the line is drawn. Which nobody wants to make, so the cure can get administered long past the point where it does more harm than good.

Gotcha, thank you. It seems he was 73 at the time. For some reason my memory mixed his name up with Al Gore, and it didn't make any sense.

Trump was 78 in 2024, by the way.

I've always wondered why bomb threats are taken so seriously... How many times has a bomb threat proved real? How many bombers risk their lives to make and plant a bomb and then just call and say "I'll use it but only if you can't find it within an hour -- fair's fair"?

This is closer to the truth than you think. The guy was not ok.

When Vlad was kept prisoner in Hungary on charges of heresy, it is said that even in his cell he caught rats and small birds and impaled them on tiny sticks

I don't get it... I mean in the context of Norm's time, what was the joke here?

Just be happy that beauty like that can exist and that you can appreciate it.

The direction of causality here seems to be in question...

So what's your excuse, hmm?

And I understand he post-processed the hell out of it, dodging and burning the film as far as it would allow him in order to make the details on the moon be just as visible as those of the buildings below.

The Addams family is supposed to be the opposite of a normal family in everything. So they're the opposite of a "normal" disengaged husband and nagging wife who've long lost all traces of love for each other.

An official looking comment asking OP to confirm they are not a bot, IIRC. I followed the link and it went to a page that just said 'ok' or something like that.

I was fooled, I thought it was an account affiliated with the community, judging by its name.

WTF. I thought this was a joke.