Arguably more deserved than Robert E. Lee, who, for all his faults, at least helped stymie attempts to keep fighting a full-on guerilla war after the Confederacy collapsed.

You can really do that any night you're inclined after sundown. It's not like they post guards.

Given things like the Espionage and Sedition Acts, and Wilson's purge of black employees from the Federal civil service, it's debatable how much worse she was than her husband.

That's pretty typical of new restaurant chains — great quality at the beginning, then they go public, new management takes over, and once they've grown as much as they can tries to cut expenses to increase profitability, and business collapses. Boston Market springs to mind as an example, but I'm sure there are dozens…

There was, honest to God, a startup in the works in the late-'90s called "Crash Cafe", which was going to be a bistro-style restaurant, possibly a chain, with disaster-themed decoration — http://www.roadsideamerica….
Somehow the project lost traction after 9/11…

I think it's most clearly not an "Action Movie" because it had some of the most realistic-seeming action I've ever seen in film — Not only the tracking shots, but the unembellished sound effects in all the combat scenes, gave it a real documentary feel. It was to action scenes what 2001 was to science fiction.

"I owed most of them money, so it's all good!"

As did I. I also remember them being used as a prop in some '70s cop show — some sort of futuristic weapons disguised as kids toys.

Well, yeah… I just wanted to be sure you were okay with it…

How about beach-adjacent in the water? I can definitely see wearing them to protect against broken seashells and ornery crabs.

Somebody really needs to re-CGI the whole Child's Play series with a Kermit doll.

Well, it's not being all that heavily marketed. My guess is that they figured Leonetti's name might bring in a half-decent opening weekend of undemanding horror fans for a low budget film.

That would be a amusing twist for a future wish-themed fantasy/horror story — along with the usual wishes for money or love or fame, the fanboy protagonist throws in something like "I wish the prequels didn't suck!"

If he didn't blow the set to splinters with a grenade launcher on his way out, he clearly wasn't the right director anyway.

As I don't actually favor the odds of a successful future series, I'm inclined to concur.

And it was actually banned in many places in the US until the mid-1870s due to lobbying by the DuPonts and our industrial explosives industry, until they started producing it themselves.

Surely a bomb cult celebrates the Fourth of July…

Mostly. But as I noted in a different Apes piece a few days ago, apparently gorillas aren't quite as pacifistic as the last generation of popular science had us believing: https://www.theatlantic.com…

And I thought it was gutsy to get your hair cut at human barber college…

Another of those great cat/dog philosophical divides — cats would be fully capable of doing all sorts of chores, but pretend they don't understand what you want. Dogs would do whatever you ask, but do it so badly you'd never ask again.