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.

Why is this not the header image?

which past life made you so angry?

Nobody should mock my new devotion to Scientology.

I’m sure Tolkien intended it to be tobacco. That said, I’m totally cool with retconning marijuana in as the new pipe-weed, especially now that tobacco has been revealed to be so unhealthy. The wise Gandalf would know better than to smoke such a mundane and dangerous plant as tobacco. He would totally go for pot…

Ya tobacco I dunno about. Me and my best friend have co-opted “Have a whef of the ol’ Toby” as our invitation to smoke a bowl. Not a bowl of tobacco though.

There’s some things you put in your pipe and smoke that are native to Europe/Eurasia. Tobacco is not one of those things.

Tobacco. Sure.

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

The characters don’t have any existence outside of the two or three hours you see onscreen.

I love this on so many levels. Fact: Madeleine L’Engle’s teacher thought she was slow and would never amount to anything. Madeleine proved her wrong magnificently.

The scene where they’re in the town and all the kids are bouncing their balls in sync is one of the scariest I’ve read to this day.

No one reads books with young female leads? **Cough** Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Lucy, Susan, Polly, etc in Chronicles of Narnia, Wendy in Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland! **Uncough**

There is a graphic novel version of Wrinkle that is fantastic! And yes, I read it as an adult. I think as a kid, this was my intro to sci fi, one of my favorite genres now.

I am very excited for this movie.