Octopussy was the title of one of the Ian Fleming Bond stories I believe. So that had more respectable literary antecedents.

As a kid, we thought it was hilarious! 

Translation: "It was already the title of a porn movie." 

Just to add a little variety to life!

In a world in which background, metrics, and facts mattered *at all*, that’d be less of a problem. Without getting into defenses or attacks on her record, it isn’t like she was a Palin. DA -> AG -> Senator. Plenty of candidates have had that trajectory. Plenty of hand-picked VPs have had that trajectory.

I cannot find the article at present, but there was a procedural hiccup that people weren’t seeing. Now all of that has been buried by “WE NEED HARRIS DO IT DO IT DO ITTTTTTT!” in everything up to and including Reuters.

who has an average, local comic book store anymore? you mean the funko pop store?

Well, see, Project 2025 didn’t cost this guy an opportunity, so it doesn’t exist. And how very American to have that perspective!

You don’t want to swap Biden with Harris, because then you vacate the VP seat, and it throws election certification into disarray.

I’ll try again:

Succession and Better Call Saul

Except I think Harris has less of a chance of winning than Uncle Joe.  Having no real up and comers is a problem the Dems have ignored for a good decade too long. 

Sure. The last time we trusted the American public to make the obvious choice between the qualified woman candidate who’d been in public service and government work for most of her adult life and who knew the ins and outs of the White House from first hand experience, and the already admitted serial rapist TV star…

Exactly - the choice between “old man who’s not all there” and “proudly evil old man who’s not all there” should really be an easy one.

Both candidates are terrible. Vote for the one who won’t require a coup to replace if the need arises.

There might be a point somewhere in there if all the criticism of Biden actually came with a solution ... like perhaps a candidate that could take over and take on Trump, or maybe a strategy going forward, or anything really.

It is what they say. Male dragons are from Westeros, female dragons are from Essos.

Yeah, I think it can at least be argued (though not definitively) that both Loki and Better Call Saul are *better* than the things they spun off from.

My wife’s comic book collection blows mine away. Not only in good choices of things bought when she collected as a youth in the 90s but also back issues she hunted for. She has an entire run of the original Miss Marvel, which has some really early Claremont work. And her X-Men back issues collection completed my…

I’m not feeling Season 4 unfortunately. I wish that they had ended Season 3 and then pass the torch to Gen V as they originally intended. Starlight should’ve been involved with all the Godolkin stuff in Gen V IMO.