i'd imagine they gave it a try, considering who it was. yes, very sad.

it's the south. poorest county in the country, as a matter of fact.

"people" ARE talking. we all know someone with a problem at this point. i don't think the powers that be are listening or care.

cause of death was hanging. not the med examiner's job to psychoanalyze him. just a thing to keep it in the news, mostly. if he was a depressed person, that mix of drugs was a bad idea, but it wouldn't have killed him. his family is saying his state of mind was brought on by the cocktail.

reign of fire is badass. saw it sometime in the last year, and it's still good.

comparisons with 1930s germany aren't needed. "when fascism comes to america…" i don't remember how that ends, but alabama just allowed a church in birmingham to arm its own private police force. white church, of course. as one of those southerners, i can tell you the process is well on it's way.

actually, that's the next most profitable thing. so, yeah. the actual lot they were going to build on is probably still vacant.

seems like lillian's storyline is about how old systems of outrage and defiance don't solve modern real life problems. this actually happened (in a way) where i used to live. the whole area surrounding the downtown was a food desert, and when developers tried to take advantage of it, local activists (who wouldn't have…

definitely, but they're both otherwise smart enough not to school-yard it past that point. and logically, if they did, batman's life span would be 2 minutes. that's why they have to torture the plot to make it happen.

fascism can be anything, basically. it's any idea taken to the point of "everyone must do this". that's why it's lazy comic book writing. and laziness by humanity in general, i guess. people generally just let it happen after a few folks get knocked in the head.

another short answer: deep down, humanity likes a dictator. we can't really imagine it not eventually happening. even jesus ended up as a warrior king by the middle ages.

yeah, superman is what his name implies: humanity expanded. when humanity is acting enlightened, superman seems like a pretty good idea. when we're slouching towards fascism, he's a scary idea. batman is out to channel something in himself into focused punishment. the only reason the two characters square off against…

yeah, a sadist, maybe. even fascism requires delegation of authority, and i don't see batman being able to break up his focus even that much. he's beyond fascism.

dean cain plays one of maria bamford's boyfriends on lady dynamite, which i think is supposed to be part of the joke. that show is layers.

i spent a good chunk of the last 3 years driving back and forth from the kansas city area to northeast mississippi. i had my choice of driving over to st louis and then down the river, or driving down to springfield and then east across the ozarks and the delta. always stopped at mammoth spring to walk the dog.

what's irritating about these kinds of movies is that when my wife and i are at the video store a year from now, this will be on shelves with a more lighthearted cover and a blurb on the back calling it a "comedy drama" because it has jason bateman or zach galifinakis or whoever.

that's part of the issue. you're absolutely right about hilary, at least as far as perception goes. the thing is, trump was even worse. he was just bad in a way that played to the sympathies of just enough districts to win the electoral college. hilary and the dems problem was that they didn't take it seriously…

i wouldn't have, but i lived in trump land all my life. these other folks have just arrived, so to speak. what i mean is, trump's been such a flaming disaster that he's woken up the whole other side. if he manages to survive this shit and win again, we should think of the presidency and our democracy as toast, because…

what the fuck for? there is no hope for a straight narrative for the rest of your lifetime, fella. it's knives and teeth from here on out.

joe morgan.