Sure, sure…But is Dark Side of the Moon better than both of them?

And The Credibility Gap, too. The jokes were a bit more obvious, but they still found a way to slide an awful lot of referential humor in there. The "Floats" sides of Floats & A Great Gift Idea are fucking gold.

McLevy got the economics part wrong, though. The economy isn't healthy(there's barely a middle class) , and it's dominated by a handful of oligarchs- with plenty of mob ties- whose net worths are in the tens or hundreds of billions. And the wealthiest of all of those oligarchs is Putin himself, whose net worth is…

Incapable of joy? I thought that was Austrians. And that's about how they describe themselves.

You forgot to point out that the guy has turned himself into a multi-billionaire in a relatively short period of time without inventing something revolutionary, and is tied in with the Russian mob.

Natural Born Killers was the exercise of making obvious the obvious. The audience that it spoke to was either the young and naive or the really goddamned stupid.

But they found a lot more Flavor Aid packets than Kool Aid packets. Like Jones was trying to pass off rotgut as top shelf booze.

Not when you've got the Mercer wealth to back you.

That there is a major player in the world's politics named Bekkah makes me laugh and cry at the same time.

But he didn't win the primaries, and never ran in the general, so you can be sure about that as you can about, say, Harry Turtledove's Timeline 191 would have actually happened.

The winner- or at least the party that looks to be in control of the future- is the D.U.P.. May needs them in a coalition to gain the majority. They're pro-Brexit, but lean left on some key economic issues (sorry if you already know this because you're from the UK or are an outsider, like me, who's already on top of…

Corbyn didn't win, May stepped on her own dick. The Tories retained Parliament, though Theresa is now in a very tight spot. Corbyn will ruin this by doing something stupid, like choosing to praise the Venezuelan government the day before that government opens fire on a protest march, killing hundreds as it's…

Getting back to the Booker thing…Don't you find the timing of the reemergence of this 5-month old story a little suspicious?

We've sunk hundreds of billions into this thing already, and all it takes is Skunkworks being right about cracking the plasma fusion nut (or someone to make some other revolutionary energy/propulsion system that renders obsolete carbon-fueled jet engines) over the next 20-25 years to make it all a ginormous waste of…

""A single Air Force F-35A costs a whopping $148 million. One Marine Corps F-35B costs an unbelievable $251 million. A lone Navy F-35C costs a mind-boggling $337 million. Average the three models together, and a 'generic' F-35 costs $178 million," Wheeler wrote."

The F-35 is the most expensive weapons system in the history of US military spending, it's had major problems and massive cost overruns, and there's barely anyone in the Air Force, Navy or Marine Corps that wants the thing. It's corporate welfare on a spectacularly large scale. So, yeah, I'd say he's championed a…

Whatever. As if Bernie isn't getting some money- along with jobs in Vermont-from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and the rest of the military aerospace industry for voting for that F-35 boondoggle.

Debbie Stabenow (and the great Carl Levin, now retired) has received a lot of money from the auto industry- AND the UAW- because she's a politician from Michigan. The pharmaceutical industry has a very large presence in New Jersey. It creates jobs- well paying jobs- and pays a lot of taxes in the state.

And Booker and 12 other Democrats who said no to Sanders bill in January immediately voted for a very similar piece of legislation, WITH THE SAFETY/SECURITY MEASURES, that was already set for a vote at the same time as was Sanders' bill.

No, he didn't support it afterwards, he supported it when it included the safety/security measures for which he asked.