And even WITH insurance sometimes the system wants you to die. My mother-in-law’s cancer drugs are $20,000 per month. She paid the first two months out-of-pocket because that’s how long it took her doctor to convince the insurance company to cover it. Supposedly she will even get the first two months’ payments back,…

It’s so the sad, lonely, alcoholics don’t look so sad and lonely sitting there drinking by themselves without an objective (i.e., watching “the game”).

I’ve heard of both, as I’m old enough to remember when it was actually happening. I remember Mae Jemison too, without having to look her up. I don’t want to pit one oppressed group against another, as there are many victims of this country’s bigotry. But I will throw it out there that Sally Ride was a bigger news…

Ok, this might be minor, but why would Stacker “always want his son to be a pilot?” Didn’t he spend most of the first movie actively trying to prevent Mako from becoming a pilot? And being a pilot would have killed Stacker shortly, if he hadn’t died in that last battle anyway? Why would he want his son to be a pilot,…

The entire universe was ill-conceived from the start. They called it “Dark Universe” without checking that Warner Bros. already owned the rights to that name. They tried to make The Mummy into an action movie because those PG-13 Marvel action movies make so much money. Then they hired Tom Cruise, an actor in his…

The journal is dated Jan. 22? I’m just wondering whether teachers have the time to read all the kids’ journals during the school day, write a response, and return it to them to same day (so it can be posted on Facebook the same day). I think the journal is great, but my suspicion is raised simply because I don’t…

Yep, in our town it’s the stickers. You pay between $50-$100 to the police union to get various stickers. The more/better stickers you have on your car, the less likely you are to get a ticket.

I think the problem is that we know there are competent women and minorities working in this same field. But when individuals are chosen as experts to represent that field, and those individuals are all white males, it gives society the impression that the field consists entirely of white men, when it doesn’t. And…

Yep, pretty much. And threatened by minorities too. They can’t stand to see anyone who should be “beneath” them succeed beyond their own success. It only reinforces what losers they are. So of course they say the female or minority only succeed because of affirmative action and not actual competence, because how could…

You think wages are only based on competency and hours worked NOW? So when a woman or minority is treated worse at work (or not given an opportunity at all!), it’s only because they’re not as competent or don’t work as many hours as white men? Wow, what an incredible coincidence that all competent and hard working…

I “got” it, I just thought the way they filmed it looked utterly ridiculous. Plus, if we only get to see Leia using the force once, to me it should have been to save others, not just herself. That would have been more Leia-like. It’s not like Leia to only use the force to save herself.

I wish everyone would just ignore this man and everything he says. Just pretend the office of president is currently vacant.

Is it wrong that I’m looking forward to this more than Infinity War?

“Palpatine gets next to no backstory in the original trilogy, and he worked pretty damn well as a villain” 

Ok, I hate figure skating, and I firmly believe the judging IS subjective. However, what do you mean when you say something like, “scored way higher than she should have” — doesn’t that mean there is an objective way to measure the skater (what she SHOULD have gotten), but the problem is the judges are allowed to rate…

Why do all the episodes have to be complete before they show any of them? Why not start 6 months earlier, and release one per month? Give us something to criticize and argue over during 2018.

The soundtrack was the worst part of Rogue One. I hoped Disney would pay Williams to re-score it before the DVD came out, but no such luck.

“It would not be in my nature to whitewash anything. That just wouldn’t be like me.” Accepting what he says is true, then the problem isn’t ONLY that Hollywood intentionally white-washes characters, but that they ALSO subconsciously default to white all the time.

I’m old.

Best thing I ever did was buy a second property. The rental income pays the mortgage for me. Then after saving another down payment, I bought another property. It’s also paying for itself. Once the mortgages are paid off (by the tenants, ha ha) I’ll own them both outright. Worst case scenario, no matter how bad the…