If it rips through everything, it must get everywhere. I assume it's coarse sand? No wonder people hate it.

We stop at 9/11. When you consider that this year's HS freshman class was born in 2000, it's a pretty important historical event to cover. I'd say we're pretty thorough up through the 1980s.

Thank you. That was one of my favorite scenes.

You dig rare exports? Do you mine conflict diamonds in Sierra Leone or something?

Here's something to make you need a drink: what we've learned about climate change in the last 20 years caused some scientists to revisit theories of nuclear winter. They concluded that 80s predictions about the scale and scope of nuclear winter were far too optimistic. So, "Threads" was a best-case scenario.

I'm very glad to see a biopic that focuses on Dr. King, finally. I'm glad it focuses on African-Americans and shows their agency in their fight for equal rights. I don't mind — at all — sidelining figures like President Johnson in order to tell that story. I also agree that Johnson is a polarizing figure, his utter…

The United States "is a big country and can handle some refugees," but that doesn't mean that America has opened its borders to allow migration by Mexican ex-farmers whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the forces of globalization. Until the US does that, it can't really demand that China undertake such an…

China doesn't want millions of refugees flooding across the border to escape the collapse of the North Korean state. They also don't want a civil war, which would be highly likely when a state with that many troops and guns suffers any serious succession crisis.

Yeah, Rowling's problem has always been that she equates power and/or a desire for influence with nasty or downright evil behavior. For all his faults, Dumbledore would almost certainly have been the best man for the job of Minister when it came to dealing with Voldemort, but he's too afraid of the wicked things he'd…

Not to mention male, heterosexual, and Protestant.

I don't disagree entirely, but contrast this trailer with the teaser to that of "The Phantom Menace." https://www.youtube.com/wat…

There's a distinct lack of stars, or deep space of any kind, in this Star Wars movie. The Dark-Jedi-in-the-forest bit made me think that I was seeing Game of Thrones.

Just make sure they don't see any clips of the prequels during their visit. Then they'd kill us all for sure.

It gets everywhere. A whiny night-shift college-age custodian will tell you all about it, for authenticity.

Jesus, what are you, some kind of fencing installer?

Is THAT how they hide their numbers?

When my grandmother died, my preacher cousin told me that he was so happy that she was in Heaven, because she was with God and thus not thinking about us at all or caring about anyone in the world (which included my grandpa). It was supposed to be comforting, I think, but was deeply fucked up. Doubly so since I had…

The solution is obvious: watch gay porn instead. There are no humiliated women.

Only if he backed it up with this gun he borrowed from the National Rifle Association.

Great street vendors during the Festival, and lovely B&Bs, too.