These are rentals, not movies people purchased to own. I would have been amazed to learn that The Accountant was a leader in purchased films, but as a rental this makes sense. If I ever decide to watch it, it will be because I couldn’t think of anything new that was better, and I would watch it just once.

I can’t believe you forgot to say EITHER of the magic phrases “on the other hand” OR “both viewpoints have merit.” Those are required! No wonder you are so unfair to cannibal witches!

Thanks for the heads-up, will keep in mind.

It’s so odd, I have to wonder if there was some kind of carrot and/or stick proffer behind the scenes. Given the enormous push by Sinclair, the Mercers, the Kochs and others to blanket news outlets with Trumpite propaganda, it’s possible something besides straightforward subscription and ad income projections was in…

I actually don’t think that works. The Trumpites still disdain “the failing New York Times” while sane people lose trust and respect and some cancel their subscriptions. (I did.)

So, why did Goldberg hire Williamson in the first place? Certainly there was zero due diligence done, especially egregious given the massive amounts of readily available evidence and the presumed mission of the company to report accurately and fairly. It seems too stupid and simplistic to assume this hire would…

I have such a strong negative reaction to this silly, shallow book and film that I wondered why. It’s not just that it’s an entirely empty and cynically synthetized junk food product. I think it’s because of the timing: our real world here in the US is at such a horrifying point right now that there is a…

Growing up in central Texas, I saw a very scary green-clouded storm. There were a couple of swirling eddies passing by overhead and sudden cold gusts on what had been a stifling hot day. Didn’t see a tornado, but they evacuated the hilltop parts of my grade school for a while. (I felt the gusts and saw the eddies…

Neat story, glad he was able to come through with those saves.

Absolutely yes. The Rethugs will do absolutely anything to hold on to power and keep their gerrymandered, unfair districting maps. When ordered to hold fair elections instead, they attack the judges and try to keep the unconstitutional maps or delay required special elections that might threaten their illegal…

Yes, it’s vital to watch and report and support legal actions where they are needed. Plus, we vote the enabling fascist Congressional bastards the hell out.

ICE wants to be an intelligence agency reporting to Trump, with all the secret data access that spy agencies have: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-wants-to-be-an-intelligence-agency-under-trump

No, the infants that Passion and Pom killed seemed normal, and none of the other members of their troop owed any aggression toward those babies. There was sneakiness in the behavior of the killers, too. It looked like deliberate murder followed by cannibalism, and they did it repeatedly. http://ngm.nationalgeographi…

It was their joke in the first place. They didn’t know he would take it seriously, but they’re not surprised.

Oh, good! I really like imagining that the Moana ammonite has pleased more than one observant and imaginative person in its long history.

This reminds me of the terrible story told by Jane Goodall of the chimpanzee mother-daughter pair Passion and Pom, who killed infants. She thought they might be mentally abnormal, but other cases have also been seen since then: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070514121651.htm

I wish we could know whether there is other glacial till or out-of-place exotic stones in the area where Naomi found the ammonite. If it is a one-of-a-kind situation, then the human agency theory looks more likely.

Bought it in a gift shop and dropped it?! What a sad lack of imagination. I’m with you on this: surely that fern fossil was moved by either a human being who found it interesting or by a glacier. Funny to have two out-of-place-fossil stories the same day.

Proof that scum floats.