Being a slave to something to describe how hard people work instead of having a life is a common expression. There would have been no issue without the Beloved epigraph. You can take quotes and lines from books out of context and re-purpose them, but having one about human slavery heading up a chapter on how women who…

My belief always was: everything is politics. Your life is based on the politics of your city, state, country. If you were in another city, state, country, you would have a different life. Politics is not an interest you have, but a required course of study every citizen of every country should know. Because you're…

The interview with the kid presidential enthusiast is great. She asks Obama about aliens, secret contact, and he says they haven't made contact yet. From her face, she doesn't believe him.
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I gotta stop reading the news, man. Ignorance be bliss.

No, it's called The Wizard (1989). From IMDB: "A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with
the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game
championship." (Damn you, Core Concept, for making me look it up!)

I'm the kind of vampire who instead of drinking blood, maybe bloviates about politics here a bit too much. It's the angry blood, my curse to bear. I have other interests—I swear!

Also, speaking of Atari, recently read Ready Player One. Not really good, and I was exasperated by all those '80s references. Hopefully Spielberg can improve it.

Atari was a bit before my time, but Classic NES for me, where you had to blow on the cartridge if it didn't work. Hell, I remember the stupid trailer for that Fred Savage movie—"Hey, just make sure you don't lay your PowerGlove on her." Ugh.

In this shitty political week, I recommend we don't get demoralized and depressed. America can be a fucked up country at times, but it's our country. As an immigrant I think I can say without self-aggrandizment that I feel the highs and lows particularly. And yet I love it because it's my home. And the food's pretty…

I was disappointed by Rogue One, not expecting to be. It was a rote action film with thin characters (the sarcastic robut was the liveliest character) and not much beauty and suspense in the long battle scenes. Even the ending, which Iggy here really liked, I read as not that bold because of the future movies. Force…

Excuse me, then. I guess the Southern Baptists, maybe, which Wikipedia informs me is the largest Protestant denomination in the country. Whatever American denomination Christian nationalists and prosperity gospel-ers come from.

I kinda get wanting to cleanse a terrible place with your own small act of love and beauty, but I don't know if those couples have that as the reason. You can find beautiful places with wondrous natural views that aren't slavery-related.

He's lately reunited with Andy Garcia for another (inexplicable) Nespresso commercial.

13. Okay, from memory: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and Summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of Heaven shines, and often is his gold complexion dimmed. And fair from fair sometimes declines,…

In my view, Republicans became so successful on an anti-government platform (which should have been self-defeating in any modern, functioning advanced democracy) because they waged a religious war, with liberals being the Satanic enemy. Democrats have to do the same, because Republicans in point of fact are pushing…

Ironically, it's American evangelical Christianity that has greatly helped in producing unChristian things like the new AHCA.

Erin had a nice Jessica Chastain look. #hotforteacher. One of clues in the marriage in ruins category was a former sugar plantation people now get married on. I don't understand why people want to get married in a place where people brutally lived and died as slaves. But that's just me. I don't even know Spanish and…

How many 'Roos to a quarter?

If America goes down (further) we're taking all of you other countries with us!

I leave the policy to the nerds. I'm here, not to work, not to work, but be the presentation.