I see what you did there.

They addressed this during Matt Smith's final episode, "The Time of the Doctor." He was on his last regeneration (including his regeneration from Eight to War Doctor, and Ten's regeneration that kept his appearance and siphoned off the rest of the energy into his severed hand) when the Time Lords granted him a new regeneration cycle, just as they did with the Master, right when he was about to be killed by the Daleks.

Then, in the Jodie Whittaker episode "The Timeless Children," we discovered that the Doctor is in fact "the Timeless Child," a being from another dimension who was discovered millennia ago and whose ability to regenerate was spliced into Gallifreyan DNA (but with a hard limit of 12 regenerations). Unlike native Gallifreyans, however, the Doctor appears to have an unlimited ability to regenerate, which neatly gets around the problem of the lead actor/actress changing every few years (otherwise, they'd have to come up with another gimmick to give him/her another regeneration cycle).

tl;dr - It's timey-wimey and spacey-wacey, and best not thought about too intently. :-)

Quite right. To paraphrase Lt. Worf, "Respect is earned, not given away."

Generallisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

More than I believe any Republican, any time, anywhere. But please, feel free to believe that Hillary Clinton is pure evil from the lowest depths of hell if it makes you feel better.

You're talking about the city of Detroit. The article talks about the Metro Detroit area, which means the city as well as the surrounding suburbs (mostly in the counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb, which are the counties that surround the city). The suburbs, by and large, are good, safe places to live, especially Oakland. The city of Detroit has plenty of problems, there's no denying that, but you do a disservice to the entire region by focusing solely on the city.

Minor correction: "To Serve Man" was an episode of The Twilight Zone, not The Outer Limits. (Fun fact: the main alien in that episode was played by Richard Kiel, better known as Jaws from the James Bond films "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker.")

Shhhhh! Quiet! Don't you know you're interrupting a perfectly good "USA bad, spooks everywhere, no one is safe, NSA spies are reading the messages in my alphabet soup, oooga-booga!" narrative?

Can't think of any other phone that had one of those. Oh, wait, yes I can: the Motorola Atrix 4G, over two and a half years ago. Of course, since the Almighty Apple has now sanctioned it, I'm sure it'll now become more popular than oxygen...

Unless you're a Time Lord, in which case you stand a good chance of looking like David Tennant or Matt Smith. I could live with that.

And Google Chrome, which Mozilla is slavishly having Firefox imitate more and more with every new release. Note to Mozilla: if I wanted to use Chrome, I'd bloody well use Chrome, so stop turning your browser into a clone of it!

If you're talking "suburbs" within the Detroit city limits, then yes, I agree with you. (I went by my grandma's old house in northern Detroit a while ago -- the 7 Mile/Gratiot/Hayes area, for the natives among us -- and "reclaimed by nature" doesn't begin to describe it. I nearly wept at the sight as the memories of my brother and I playing in the back yard when we were kids surfaced.) Most in the Metro Detroit area, however, know "suburbs" as the cities and towns outside the city limits, cities such as Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak, Southfield, Dearborn, etc., all of which are alive and thriving.

Wasn't Paul Reubens arrested for indulging in his dongle fetish?