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the rationalist
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I'm your wicked uncle Ernie…maybe I should have used another name.

Yet that George died indirectly as a result of being caught with a neighbor's wife. Ah, well.

Die choking on your madeleines, Marcel Proust
This is my new catch-phrase.

But he does turn such a bright, cheery red when he's put his foot in his mouth, don't you think?

I have seen it, yes, and I've been trying to forget it, too.

It's always free in the beginning.

Billy Graham, one of the world's biggest phonies.

Mormonism is also based on a sci-fi novel, so why not?

From what I've read above, Travolta wasn't going to do it.

Science doesn't claim to explain everything, just to be continually engaged in figuring things out.
Religion does claim to explain everything via the "because god said so" route.
Religion is a dead end for those of us who have an on-going curiosity about how things came about and how things work and why.
Religion is fine

I'm far from an expert when it comes to film, but I think that if violence were portrayed truly, it would stop everything dead (so to speak). Real violence is ugly and nauseating.

Maybe it means that Gary Glitter was in the neighborhood.

A Whiter Shade of Pale, Procol Harum? That one came back two or three times on its own, without the help of covers or movie tie-ins.

What about The Grifters? Isn't that worth a lifetime pass?

The very opposite of buzzkill.

No, but it's sneaking up on him nonetheless.
My childhood is dying.

The cabin
looks sort of like an owl with a hat on.

Skip the intro. I feel stupid every time I reread it 'cos I should know it's the same thing every time.

It was how he used the leaf blower that caused the problem.

I heard he lost it in the talent competition.