Good lord. None of that is remotely applicable. At all.

No, there’s no legal reason whatsoever they need to explore his motivations, and very little probability of discovering anything that would somehow stop some future incident. What would they find — that he’s a member of Hydra or was hypnotized by a YouTube video?

That’s what we’ve done.

Oh it’s costing us. We may not see the concrete numbers for a while, but our influence and respect around the world has plummeted in ways that will hurt us for a long, long time.

This is how a certain class of “businessmen” talk about world affairs and economics and culture when they get together. They’re confident they understand everything because they made a killing in toasters or fertilizer or whatever, and they pass around the Fountainhead DVDs and laugh and shake their heads at the silly…

It’s not Brazile’s doing — she’s just trying to be relevant after being caught — wait for it — cheating for Hillary herself.

Our house could not believe Max’s skateboarding or video game skills or general street-wise kick-assedness never really came into to play. Her one moment of action vs. Billy seemed a glued-on afterthought.

Student debt (which is bullshit, but doctors and lawyers would file bankruptcy daily if it was dischargeable). Physical harm. Fraud.

Just out of curiosity, has there been attempt at reporting the level of U.S. social media “trolling” in political contests around the world?

Oh bullshit, and bullshit on the rest of the commentators heaving and sweating about Tesla’s supposedly impending collapse, which people have claimed is moments away for what — 10 years now? Jesus, you all sound like Brock Yates mewling that he’d never drive a “golf cart” or whatever until Car and Driver thankfully…

Hi there. Whitey-Mc-my-opinion-is-neither-wanted-nor-needed-here-which-is-totally-fine-by-me, with I think a good-faith inquiry? I never try to comment here, but have come looking here and there to read, as you do. Leave me gray or zap my posts to oblivion if you want, but I have been baffled by this theme since the…

The native drink of the Welch?

My brand-new Echo Plus is doing pretty well playing “spooky sounds” tonight, but when I ask for “Halloween playlist,” sometimes she plays one, and sometimes she loudly reads some wire story about NASA.

She could easily have delivered Kali’s “use your anger” lesson to 11. Kali’s subplot was another rushed, thinly developed element that never really gelled and could easily have been dumped.

I felt like there was a huge unfulfilled promise that Max and her skateboard would triumph over Billy and his bitchin Camaro. They went there ... sort of. But it felt rushed and flat.

The writing plan for this season:

I’ve never heard it suggested that dogs cooperate better with *each other* than wolves do. For Pete’s sake, wolves live wild in social groups of other wolves, doing everything together. Maybe this was an assumption in scientific circles, but if so I think they’re alone in that rather odd bias.

“Oui-hee-hee”

We just watched the first season of Rick and Morty, and enjoyed it. Like, a normal kind of enjoyment, not a “Hey, this heroin stuff is pretty GOOD” kind of enjoyment, but it was funny and surprisingly solid on the sci-fi premise side of things.