Unrelated anecdote:

Years ago I had a cheap Blackberry lookalike phone. It had a button lock feature to prevent butt dialing, but some bright spark decided that the lock wouldn't apply to the '9' and '1' keys, presumably so that a user could dial 9-1-1 even if too panicked to unlock the keypad. Which just meant that it was really easy to butt dial 9-1-1...

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, I call him Gamblor! And it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

To paraphrase Bruce Schneier, any idiot can create a universe that he himself doesn't understand.

Remember this when he talks about being "pro-life".

I'm sure there are lots of ways bosses might want their employees to change in their personal lives because it might benefit the company. But that's the part that's overstepping.

Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don't know if there's a more specific term for those beneath power lines.

Flee*

He will flee the country.

Standing against things rather than for things.

So what are they planning to do about it? Oh, that's right: nothing. I'd call the GOP useless except they're clearly being used by someone.

This is disturbingly reminiscent of eugenics.

If this were Gate instead of Trek, ascension instead of Q power, and Goauld instead of Borg, then the answer would be Anubis.

Between 1500 and 1865, more than 80% of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas by European slave traders.