I think two of Brosnan’s Bond films are good (GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough), while the other two are quite bad.

It’s what narcissistic psychopaths do best.

Bankruptcy is a regular fixture of American business, and, frankly, the economy would be much worse if we didn’t have it—a certain element of “risk” is what makes the American economy so productive and wealthy, and part of that is accepting that a certain percentage of failure and bankruptcy is inevitable.

There’s such a thing as a “communal/activist narcissist,” which is largely the vibe I get from people like Jessica Krug.

The problem, I think, is that 50 years of leftists—not just in the U.S., but worldwide—are far more comfortable with being “the opposition” instead of “the government.” The former is considerably sexier (with loud protests and activism) than the latter, which often involves a bunch of unglamorous meetings with…

In Canada, it’s now gauche to want anything but a very modest subsistence level life.

Find an accountant (ideally one located in your new country) that specializes in U.S. tax filing from abroad. There are lots of Americans who live overseas in your situation, and the paperwork involved is considerably more complicated than a standard domestic file.  It also doesn’t matter if you didn’t earn any income…

I’ve been a big fan of Gregg Araki ever since I caught a random broadcast of “Nowhere” on IFC a couple of decades ago (a happy occurrence because the film never had a Region 1 DVD release), and I was lucky to have attended a retrospective of his career at TIFF in Toronto several years back where he also did an…

As icing on the cake, he’s also the great-grandson of Francisco Franco.

I saw a commentator on another thread say Biden should just play this gibberish on loop to clinch the next election.

A ranked choice primary election on the same day nationwide is the only way to manage this fairly and democratically.  No single state can or should dictate the will of the others.

The media narrative—and thus, the polls leading into Super Tuesday—shifted substantially after South Carolina’s primary. Voters there are free to vote their conscience any way they like, and that obviously meant Biden, but we’re also talking about a state that overwhelmingly elects Republicans regardless. Why should a…

It shouldn’t even be about who is deserving or not deserving when it comes to monetary policy and taxation. Whether Elon Musk is a “good” billionaire or someone like Donald Trump is a “bad” billionaire is entirely irrelevant. I don’t particularly feel the need to confiscate all the wealth of the rich, but it is…

The DNC strongly favored Biden from the start, and it’s all the more clear now when you consider that the delegate count between Biden and Sanders is not all that far apart. Now that their favored candidate finally had a good day, we’re all supposed to give up and just “accept the inevitability,” even though over half…

Frankly, it would help greatly if the DNC was on the side of a candidate like Sanders and Warren, and it is clear that they are not. An overwhelming percentage of Democratic voters are, unsurprisingly, going to trust the Democratic Party when they throw their weight behind a candidate, whether that candidate is John…

Democrats vote out of fear, which doesn’t go well for them. Meanwhile, can you think of the last time Republicans thought to themselves “let’s go safe this time”? These are the folks with grand plans to reshape America in their image (i.e., Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” in 1994 and their grand aspiration for…

Bloomberg will not get the DNC nomination and he will likely be a pissy fuckface about it and run as an independent

Well, frankly, I think the Democratic Party would need to give them a reason to vote for Biden beyond mere threats. The party may instinctively want to swing right for the general election, but I think they already have that base covered.  It’s the left that isn’t convinced.

And, if so, it’ll be four more years of Trump. Honestly, Democrats are the absolute worst at choosing the “safe candidate” (see John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2016). Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won on a combination of charisma and change.

The Master said he put all the time lord bodies on ice, and presumably, those Cyberlords were only a small number of them. Even with that last detonation, it could be argued that they were unaffected, because they were already dead, but, being on ice, they could be later revived. Also, considering the Master will…