Corporate HR departments act to make life easy for powerful people in the corporation, certainly not to help lowly employees. I speak from experience. When the respected head of HR in my big biotech company tried to help me by looking for the truth in a situation in which I was being framed with obvious lies, she…

The Rethugs have a pretty clear image of what the next chaplain should be like, besides Christian (skin deep only) and white. Hypocrisy and ignoring the teachings of Jesus in the Bible (Love? Tolerance?? Helping the needy??? Not being a rich, selfish, bigot?!!?) are requirements. They’re supposed to help whip up…

Some info I didn’t see: on my iPad it’s the Audubon Bird Guide, updated April 20 (version 5.04), and the link is here:

Welcome! Glad you mostly like it in the US and hope you get to check out other regions of the country, which are all quite distinct. Doubtless true in the U.K. as well.

Edited again to add a link on how his victims broke down in tears after the verdict: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/watch-survivors-rapist-bill-cosby-break-tears-verdict-courthouse/

Edited to add: after the verdict he was screaming obscenities at the prosecutor in the courtroom: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/convicted-rapist-billy-cosby-exploded-courtroom-screamed-obscenities-prosecutor/

Finally. Now on to the other rapists and abusers who have been too rich/connected to fail.

I read this as an expression of her own entitled vanity — he’s got my DNA, of course he’s gorgeous! — and a combination of internalized misogyny and jealousy of attractive women younger than herself.

How I read this: “I’m a great artiste, and the more outrageous things I do, the more I prove it.” He certainly has talents, but geez Louise, his thirst buries them.

I think sound mixing that terrible must be deliberate: they are burying the lack of story and good writing in noise and visual shocks. Seems to work well enough to make enough money for the next one on the assembly line, but what an offensive waste all around.

So true. I made the mistake of seeing one of the early ones when it came out and it was a waste of time. Unique in my experience, the explosion-laden sound track was so loud that it literally hurt my ears. I moved to the back of the theater but it was still so oppressively loud that I had to leave. I complained to…

Well said. I agree. Good writing and emotional stakes are essential even in adventure fiction. Massive CGI is too often used as a crutch with a net effect of weakening the story.

Far after mosquito-mediated deaths from pathogens (hundreds of thousands), hippos are probably the next most lethal non-human animals in Africa, with nearly 3000 deaths per year. https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/11-animals-more-likely-to-kill-you-than-sharks. Deaths from snakes, deer car strikes,…

Could be. But even if so, the drawing shows poor planning and the head still is weirdly shaped — a simple elongated oval as if traced from a stencil — and too small for the perspective.

Yes, and with almost no feet and at least one dislocated knee!

I think the first panel’s Deadpool ranks right down there with Liefeld’s worst drawings:

He doesn’t dare abuse those he fears, like Roger Stone and Putin. These people are ruthless criminals who could destroy Trump’s bubble and ruin him politically and financially anytime it became useful to them to do so. I am sure both have devastating Kompromat on him as well as underworld — especially Russian…

This is a great story, well written. I would love to witness the upcoming show and tell of the study results to the people who so generously welcomed the foreign researcher and her machine.

Yes, that’s the way it should be, both ethically and by common sense. But in this country, rules are necessary and must be enforced because the people in positions of responsibility are too often careless or corrupt. Secretary Chao, like many other too many officials of the Trump regime and the ruling political…

The Times added that the Federal Aviation Administration had prepared a directive that would require mandatory ultrasonic inspections of blades on engines that “have flown more than 15,000 cycles” after the 2016 incident, though the FAA has not yet taken action to put the rule into effect.