And the scars from the ones we lost to AIDS are old enough to forget about for a few days at a time.

FTL travel implies a mastery over spacetime itself. After that, a practical time machine is a matter of engineering details.

We can be sure that we never get there because we are not flooded with tourists from the future. QED.

Yeah. I’d like to be able to, but this isn’t the kind of society where my opinions should be matched to my body.

I can tell you that the original was Sicilian.

My last name is limited to my 5 closest relatives. This is due to a bizarre misspelling 3 generations back followed by mostly female descendants.