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I dunno. I feel like the people who graduated with a journalism degree in, say, 1995 had no idea what kind of a professional roller coaster they were in for.

Eh, I tend to think that the "administrative oversight" bit is the core of the problem. Most of the people I've known (particularly a lot of the doctors and medical staff) with the VA are really great, but they're caught in the teeth of a broken system. There are pockets of excellence, and I think McDonald was

Yeah, it's a pretty mixed bag. Even though the military is a generally conservative place (though getting less so), Trump is hardly your garden variety conservative. Some of his statements on NATO and Russia have been absolutely jaw-dropping.

See, that's why Spielberg would be a great choice. The emotional core of the movie would be Superman's sense of abandonment by Jor-El, despite the destruction of Krypton circumstances.

Frank Oz is amazing, but for a surreal bit of weirdness try watching The Empire Strikes Back and the Muppet Movie one after the other. Once you hear Yoda in Miss Piggy's voice, you can't unhear it.

I can't believe Teti thinks Joe Buck is a good commentator. I don't mind his sense of irony—it's his completely flat delivery that sucks the air out of incredibly thrilling plays. The most obvious example is his call of "The Catch" the last time the Patriots were in the Super Bowl. Literally the whole country was

Which was better still than the post-mortem nap!

Titanic 2: Cruise Control

I can only assume that the House Cup exists to teach kids that life is fundamentally unfair and success is attained not by virtue but by blatant sycophancy and arbitrary largess.

I'm not on Facebook, but there was a period when my mom would regularly forward me emails about something that was clearly a hoax. She's actually quite intelligent, but some of the things that go around are cleverly designed to appeal to people's fears or sentimentality.

Now I want to see a retelling of Gone With the Wind in the Star Wars universe. They already fly a Rebel Flag, after all.

I know $100 million isn't as much money as it used to be, but if studios are worried about risk (and they're always, always worried about risk), I say that they give an unconventional director $20 million and let them tell great small-scale stories.

Similarly, I think Saving Private Ryan deserves a mention for artful use of desaturation.

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Eh, I think "politics" and drama are common at almost any size church, even assuming quality leadership, because the reality is that people have issues, and that often comes out as gossip and manipulation.

There's no shortage, really.

Eh, it's starting to reach the stage where I'm beginning to respect him for not caring what we think.

It dovetails nicely with my sense of entitlement as an audience member!

During my initial training with the Army, they frequently (and unironically) would play "Fortunate Son" when conducting demonstrations of a tactic they were about to teach us.

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