Agreed - I hesitated about the quote, because there’s certainly baggage there to put it mildly, but on that particular one, it’s a very apt and true saying (or so I feel).

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

Can we maybe apply #WakandaRules to _all_ the Fox News “personalities”?

Not a bonkers interior, but this seems as good a place as any to share the picture of a beautiful Silver Shadow II I stumbled across in a random suburban shopping center a week or so ago. Looked to be in pristine condition:

Those are great names... for Navy Ships:

Absolutely correct. The form it takes is different, and sometimes more subtle (or better to say, not quite so blatant), but that doesn’t mean it’s not there, even in otherwise liberal states like California or Massachussetts.

The short answer is, it’s the specific versus the general. The specific is a much more direct thing, and much more likely to move people to action - say, a sick child who needs money to pay for an operation, compared to funding children’s healthcare in general. The latter is far more abstract to many people, while the…

I’m not sure if it’s the distractions so much as that it’s harder to get away from things.

Where’s Bugs Bunny when we need him:

I feel that’s still more socially acceptable than funding your race team through Payday Loan fraud f*ckery and just straight up inventing fake debts that people will get hounded by unscrupulous debt collectors: https://jalopnik.com/convicted-payday-loan-mogul-scott-tucker-has-absolutely-1822496589

He’s an amazingly gifted filmmaker. Here’s looking forward to this film, as well as the films he has yet to make.

For what it was, I enjoyed it. I do agree with you, there was a lot that I wanted in it that they didn’t put in. Jake is more interesting when Eddie is around to interact with him, definitely. I strongly suspect that it was a classic case of Hollywood thinking, i.e. “we’ll use those in the sequels,” only for the movie…

That’s just it. It’s not an adaptation. It’s a continuance/sequel.

I’ve found that most people at conventions/etc are really nice, mostly because a lot of them are cosplayers too (or just know the kind of effort that goes into it). The awful ones are the random jerks on the internet sitting behind a screen of anonymity.

I do think there’s a point where you get into supercar territory that it becomes an acceptable sacrifice, but I wouldn’t do it for this.

The answer was that Republicans, when faced with the choice of moderating their policies or doubling down on racism, went full racist.

It never ceases to boggle my mind at how some people thought Trump (even via a protest vote) would be better than Clinton.

That’s because none of those options let them “put those dirty sluts back in their place.” It has nothing to do with babies*, and everything to do with social control of women, forcing them into old roles as housewives/homemakers first and foremost.

Navy Federal. Credit Unions are awesome. :)

Yes - I’ve already kept the car beyond the length of the loan, and intend to for a bit longer. I’m keeping the mileage low now that I don’t have a ridiculous commute anymore, too.