I don't know why this is modded funny.....my natural rhythm seems to be 20/10, and this seems to be pretty common in my field.

Photons are "merely" localized changes in an electromagnetic field. Intuitively, "bumping" a charged particle will cause it to wiggle, causing just such changes to propagate. This is sort of a lie depending on your intuition for "bump", but it's close enough for a 3am /. post.

or...Andrew Stanton. Or Brad Bird.

I think this misses a little bit the problem with Lucas's film-making. The problem has never been the plot - he's fantastic at that. It's the dialogue and characterization. He does mythic, not interpersonal. I'd be all for a trilogy in which Lucas provided the plot structure and someone else handled the script-writing. This is basically what happened with the original trilogy, and it was amazing.

host the Olympics?

This true - but all of the activities I suggested also help self-select for a peer group that is less likely to be problematic.

Thankfully there are more options than "preppy preschool" and "melt brain on TV". Playing outside, reading, and construction toys are all pretty solid options.

Pilot-wave theory requires non-locality, which should make even less to you.

Where were the pro-market, anti-monopoly Republicans

Not in national office, and furiously shaking their fists at the neo- and social- conservatives who hijacked the party.

A non-trivial fraction of Republicans are pro-markets, rather than pro-business, which is more than can be said for any number of Democrats. And the pro-market faction tends to oppose government-sanctioned monopolies.

As a 5 year old I took perverse joy in showing off my pink Birkenstocks to people who told me that pink was a "girly color".

Indeed, didn't their NSL warrant canary just die?

As the GP said, there are some rigorous top tier liberal arts schools that only offer BAs "on principle", so you should check into your applicant's backgrounds to see what the story is. I went to one that made the BA/BS distinction, and took the BS route, so I can mostly sidestep that particular mess, but from what I've heard there's definitely still some discrimination on the engineering side of things.

It already has been in places. My high school did this 7 or 8 years ago.

BSG is the only other series that comes close with the physically accurate dogfighting. The Vipers are still *designed* like jets, but they don't fly like them.