I agree - I’m not updating until these iOS 11 bug reports die down. I always delay operating system upgrades until the first patches are done and things should hum smoothly, but this transition looks to be much worse than usual. Makes me wonder whether something happened to the beta-testing process — different…

This is a cynical ploy to take money from sick people and also to convince them to stop proven, life-saving treatments such as an anti-retroviral AIDS regimen. It aims to profit from the gullible and desperate by lying (by pushing fake pseudoscience and magical thinking while undermining trust in the real therapy), ro…

Exactly. A toadstool is a kind of poisonous mushroom common in temperate forests.

ETA: here is a good article on Tom Cotton, who is Trump’s apparent pick for CIA Director. He’s truly horrible, and he really, really wants outright war with Iran. He’s been called a Trump-whisperer, and that is one of the first things he will be trying to convince the brainless Trump to do.

Pompeo is a total yes-man to Trump except for being for being very reluctantly forced to admit that, well, the intelligence agencies do agree that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. He still falsely insisted that they had determined that it definitely did not affect the election outcome (https://www.washingtonpos…

Don’t forget the other major GOP win in this “policy”: promoting Big Pharma profits and keeping their lobbyists’ dollars rolling in. This is a massively corrupt collusion, and corrupt Congress members want to keep it going. Some posts and articles:

Obviously, this is a scripted act for showing the gullible —their base — how much they Care(TM) about Family Values(TM), and it will do absolutely nothing to actually stop Congressional abusers or make them accountable. In fact, it may do the opposite, by giving these corrupt men something to point to — “I voted for…

I agree, the first consideration is Depp’s IRL character.

A child rapist and child sex-trafficker. Prison inmates have standards, and this monster is not going to meet them. I imagine he will be spending a lot of time isolated for his safety.

I’m a native Texan and have more than enjoyed a wide range of chili recipes, some of them with real rapture. It is hard to be depressed with a steaming, fragrant bowl of delicious chili in front of you. I do have my favorite styles and, with the strong cinnamon flavor, extra saltiness, and color-not-found-in-nature…

Yes, that’s how I saw it too.

I left that theater feeling basically nothing for the movie. It was pretty, and long and.... hollow, I think. Pretentious is a good word, too.

Moore is a “man of character” all right: predatory, hateful, bullying, hypocritical, lawless, thoroughly despicable character.

Funny - even as a robot, Chun Li has to have bare-naked legs up to the keester. Must be the source of her secret powers.  

Totally agree. The treatment of women in this movie is beyond exploitative, it’s pathological. I’m sure it will win an Oscar for cinematography, and I suppose I am glad I saw it for the visual experience, but I never want to see it again. In addition to the pervasive misogyny, it had a labored pretentiousness to…

He reminds me of Teena, a wonderful dog from my childhood. She was amazingly smart and full of personality, with the most mobile, expressive face. She could do the “wasn’t me!” and “I’m pitifully starving” looks better than anyone.

Not only a Mudhound but a Flying Mudhound. Very special!

I think the great cinematic success and now universal familiarity of Deadpool (Wade Wilson), a Marvel character created as a spoof of the DC character Deathstroke (Slade Wilson), have turned the tables and made the earlier character the joke. Only he’s not funny, he just looks like an off-brand Deadpool with almost…

Very well said. Needs more stars.

Never forget Jerry Jones’ sorry history on CTE: even AFTER the NFL’s own senior VP of Health and Safety stated to Congressional Reps in Washington DC that there is definitely a link between football and degenerative brain disease, JJ was still holding forth that there was no evidence of a connection: https://www.wash…