To be fair, I engage in topics like this (or lurk into the threads and get lost for a while) as a kind of 'dessert' for my info-meal, as it would be.

I read about the shooting, I read about the border, I read about a couple other topics. Aliens thread? Yeah, let's lighten the tone here at the end of this regularly scheduled morning movement with a little of the sunday funnies, that sort of thing.