Good questions, but I don’t have answers. The troll was in the grays when they first replied to my post. I didn’t see the ugliness of their username, didn’t look at it at all, and I did not tag/dismiss them then. Their tone was sneering, though, and I didn’t want to ungray them.. An hour or two later later I noticed …

Done, thanks. I never thought to read name of that poster backwards.

I’m still glad you replied. The racist asshat (whom I’ve now flagged and dismissed as brighter suggested) might have confused some honest though uninformed readers who thought this was “only” about free speech. The article I linked to in my earlier post as well as your reply counter this argument.

I hope the owner (and other NFL owners who try this) is taken to court on this and is the one who receives long-overdue “discipline” of his own. What the NFL owners are doing in punishing anthem protests, which they have admitted is a craven cave to bullying by Trump that threatened their revenue stream, is illegal…

Yes. I’m not a believer, but I try to live by a code of doing the right thing. It feels good and, with eyes open, works well.

Good for him. He is doing something real, important, and literally life-saving and he deserves our respect and thanks. I hope that brave, suffering woman finds a safe haven, but that is not guaranteed.

Also available in pocket sized, for when you can’t visit the U.K.:

If it lives up to its name and starts eating cats, then we’ll see some serious human-fish warfare.

She burned her bridges with that “I don’t really care” jacket.  Who cares what she wears after that?

IMO, TV program choices are so boring/stupid/insulting/repetitive in these days of reality TV and brainless productions all around that football can look better by default. I’m over it, myself. With the league’s predictably disgusting responses to actual issues like player CTE and police violence protests and the…

Exactly.  Fraudulent sellers are reported and Amazon does nothing.  

I’m not surprised. There is a plague of counterfeited items for sale on Amazon, and it doesn’t look like they are doing anything effective to clean it up. I was burned myself with a faux Swiss Army knife, labeled and described as authentic but very obviously a fake when received. This kind of thing happens who…

They do have some things in common, all of them awful:

Not bad, but image needs five Palpatines.

Exactly. Fox News will have very selective clips showing the “patriotic” GOP reps posing for the cameras, their American flag lapel pins glinting in the lights, asking questions and whatever other tiny bits fit the fictional narrative they are pushing. None of the real pushback will be shown. The stupid base will eat…

No, I did not see the original movie.  All I can judge by is what is in this one, and to me the relationship between Cassie and the woman who is apparently her mother does not seem real in this movie.  All her devotion and attachment is aimed at her father.

Yes, there would still be times when biodegradable or recyclable take-out containers would be needed, though there are also situations where bringing your own containers does work.

A big missing piece to me involves a different mother: who was the the mother of Scott Lang’s daughter Cassie? I am not up on Marvel Universe goings on in the comics, so I had to rely on the movie as my source of information on this. I’m guessing that he was divorced, and she remarried and is the woman in the “close…

A lot of people are susceptible to predators like this guy. He knows their pain makes them easy marks for his lies and manipulation. What he does should have a criminal penalty, and the tv show runners and network are complicit in his crimes. I hope that network’s advertisers get many letters urging them to stop…

We should all be shocked when we get styrofoam with our packages or food. I live in a fairly progressive state, but I still see a lot of it, especially as packing material but also in food containers in the grocery stores. It is not accepted into recycling and goes straight to landfills, where it will stay for a long…