It may be splitting hairs, but I do think it’s fair to point out that someone who realizes that too far is too far is better than someone who just wants to ride the bomb down Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove style. That said, it in no way absolves them of anything from before that point - it is a step on the road to…

I might give a pass to the one or two printed columnists that have done nothing but criticize Trump and his enablers since Day 1. (Doesn’t mean I’ll forget about the stuff they did before that, but they get a pass on that bit at least.) Course, that amounts to exactly zero politicians in office, and really, nobody who…

So much winning whining.

There are also some people for whom money outweighs everything else. There’s a certain mindset that can be summed up as “f*ck y’all, I got mine” that crosses lines of color and gender. It’s an entirely selfish mindset of course, and shows an appalling lack of empathy on the part of those people, but there it is…

Good on them for catching on to a standard Business Email Compromise attempt by cybercriminals - this sort of thing sucks money out of all sorts of businesses. Thing is, it’s not particularly uncommon, nor is it politically targeted. And it’s not being done by Russian state-sponsored hackers either, just some second…

You can find the equivalent of the most prominent (read: Evangelicals, but also some others) publicly Christian sorts are in the New Testament - but here’s a hint, they’re not the followers of Jesus, they’re the Pharisees. You know, the people that let the money-changers in the temple, and that got upset because Jesus…

Who’d wish that on those poor insects though?

This is why I found peace with the electric car future - because electric (or hybrid, or any of that) doesn’t mean boring little econobox that struggles to match a Kei car for power output. It can mean tire-melting performance, and I’m entirely fine with that spectrum continuing.

I would suggest that the hypocrisy was always there, it just wasn’t so fully on open display. What has changed isn’t the character of the people involved, it is that they no longer have any sense of shame about it in public.

That is the other aspect of this movie - it is not merely groundbreaking in its focus on POC and their stories, it is an amazingly good movie even when that aspect is ignored. And that very fact shows just how wrongheaded Hollywood’s insistence on sidelining actors/actresses of color is, because those talent pools run…

And then go see Black Panther a few times, just for good measure. (But I’d recommend that regardless because it’s so good)

Most “Conservatives” in America today aren’t even conservative in the traditional sense anymore. They’re reactionaries that want to take the country back to some mythical era when everything was perfect. The only thing that they can’t all agree on is when exactly that time was - whether it was the 1980s, the 1950s,…

Not all films benefit from IMAX, but there are too many stunning visuals and vistas in this movie for IMAX not to be worth it.

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…