They will be making them to look like PEZ dispensers and colorful fuzzy ink pens next. “here kids, get hooked on this stupid addictive thing that is super easy to hide from your parents”

Their first album is amazing.

I wonder if Bezos regrets making people, within Amazon, choose work over life/family? Probably not, he still made billions, at the expense of plenty of families.

This is one of the “four noble truths” of Buddhism - the idea that desire is the root of all suffering. Negative experience is a manifestation of the difference between our current state and our desired state. Eliminate that difference, and you eliminate the suffering.

• “Ford and Debbie see Dog Day Afternoon during their first date; Ford then plays it to his Quantico students. Can we please call a moratorium on TV shows reminding us of the vastly superior movies we could be watching instead?”

I am enjoying it through 4 episodes just fine. I do wonder how the reviews for this show was assigned to somebody who has been so open with his dislike toward David Fincher movies. Seems like it was destined for poor reviews given the source.

which past life made you so angry?

Nobody should mock my new devotion to Scientology.

(Was going to cite a good thread by Adam Serwer, but his Twitter is acting up, at least for me).

No it can’t be Shaun Cassidy, he was more of a blonde and he wasn’t big yet in 1970. Could be David Cassidy but his hair didn’t flip in the front. I am sticking with Bobby —this is from 1970, when he had his biggest hits with ‘Julie Do You Love Me’ and ‘Hey Mister Sun’. Though they apparently called him ‘Jonathan Jay’…

I thought it was supposed to be Shaun Cassidy (I’m also old!).

OH MY GOD IS SHE TOTALLY KISSING BOBBY SHERMAN IN THAT FIRST PICTURE. PS, I am really very old.

I think also because the 60s-70s were an era in which literary romance was getting more explicit (eventually far more explicit) than you could get away with in the comics, which made it hard to compete.

Romance fiction is a flourishing and really varied genre right now that runs the full spectrum of content and quality. It hasn’t lost it’s “ambitious talent” to “smarter” genres. Lots of fans first encounter it in their teen years and remain readers into adulthood. This kind of fiction is absolutely still out there…

I did, too, but it’s not mainstream popular in the US and has dropped off a lot since the 90s/2000s publishing boom. And even then boy’s titles dominated the US market (as they still do) and average teen girls weren’t reading it. It was niche. The US romance/shoujo/josei manga market is extremely tiny compared to the…

Or teen culture died out as the boomers aged, to be replaced by stuff for the next generation or nostalgic adults. Superhero comics, while at their nadir at that particular moment, was able to bridge that gap while women moved to dimestore paperback and “I never thought it’d happen to me” trash for a more adult…

Cities that treat adults like adults? Weird.

The quickest, easiest, and most effective way they could deescalated the situation was to simply leave. They didn’t have to engage her. They didn’t have to stay. They were there to check out a burglary report. Once she became hostile, they could have simply walked away. That is the one thing I can’t understand from…

“Whitcomb replied that the officers were “suffering” in the aftermath of the shooting”

I just go with “assholes”.