Finally saw Hail, Caesar!. (The first Coen Brothers movie I inexplicably hadn't seen in a theater.) Very interesting. A seemingly incongruous, let's say dialectic, between old Hollywood movies and religious/political belief systems. It's thematically dense though done through a screwball comedy. I loved: Mannix's…

Woah. I had no idea 20th Century Women was that good. To the photoplay house!

Maybe not. They're a religious cult. His most ardent supporters are a religious cult. I don't know.

This is the next worldwide march. There will be many. I can't imagine Trump lasting a freaking year the way he's going.

Thanks. I'll take a look at that later. Weren't you at one point supportive an an American Christian Democrat party?

Well, why wouldn't they be good and why wouldn't they change their minds if the effects to them were bad? I've read my fair share of interviews with supporters. A lot are working class people struggling to survive. Trump has to help them now. If he doesn't, they'll go back to the Dems or go back to not voting. These…

Nah, see I'm more optimistic than most. Trump was widely disliked, just not as much as Clinton. He was voted in because he wasn't a traditional GOP pol—whom Republican voters hated because they hadn't been served by the party they had always voted for—and he attracted blue collar Democrats who hadn't been served by…

Maybe the strongest and most effective way to stop Trump is to get to his 63 million voters. To convince them that his actions aren't helping them but hurting a lot of Americans (including them) and a lot of innocent people around the world. To do this, requires the real media penetrating their fake one so that they…

Unless the subtitle is a quote or written line from her, this is a very stupid title for a TV show, even a superhero TV show, which is what it sounds like. (My real name also starts with a Z and I go by that so Americans don't mispronounce my name.)

My favorite part of the story is the last line where he says he reads the paper every day. Even Velocirapstar doesn't read Breitbart every day. Is Steve Bannon in the closet for the New York Times and feeling very anguished about it?

I'm interested in the epistemological angle. Working class supporters won't have time to read much political news, let alone the many terrible things Trump does every day. Like how they tuned out every terrible thing he said during the election except for the stuff they liked, Trump will produce so much shit as…

Happy 90th birthday to the network that laid the electoral groundwork for a lot of worldwide destruction! You bastards. (Undo The Apprentice and the probability of Trump becoming president lessens, maybe by a lot.)

The four letter word ending in k that married people do: he'll be a great talker?

Welp, he's going to test those nukes on Mexico in our soon-to-start war with them. Now would be a good time for the Democrats to find their Lincoln.

If you're new to Phillip Roth, this may be one of his more accessible works because while he writes mainly about the Jewish-American experience, they're not usually this sci-fi. Check out Operation Shylock and Sabbath's Theater, more wild comedies/tragedies.

I should put this on Saturday's WoT, but I've been entranced by the Masterpiece series Victoria's title theme. It's by Martin Phipps. Kind of like an awesome, beautiful, religious piece of music, one that I can see played in a TV show at a major (if not the central) character's moment of death. This series is pretty…

"Q-Ball in the side pocket!" I just checked: that episode of The Critic is still on YouTube. Go watch it now.

Brought over here, but I was less than five, so it didn't make much of a difference culturally. We actually stayed a year in Germany, in a town above Frankfurt (because there were no direct flights from Iran to America for reasons everyone knows), and I went to school and learned German and everything. But, as soon as…

Don't know enough about Brown, but with Warren, I'm surprised anybody would think this wasn't a "one for one" deal to get what she wants. Brown too likely. If they've been always been good progressives who've been very tough on Trump and his cabinet, it would make no sense to suddenly change their characters and…