If I look like that at 61...I dunno. I thought the pie-eyed bastard was a lot older.

Going a bit off topic for a sec...

My high school in Kentucky, just over the Ohio River from Cincinnati, still has a “Rebel” for its mascot, and used a confederate flag as a part of the overall motif well into the 80s. It’s obvious, however, what the cartoonish Rebel character refers to: a Robert E. Lee-like Confederate officer. Given the role…

I’m 40-something and pretty much detest most people. Can’t imagine the level of disdain I’d feel if I make it to 90-something. Off the charts probably.

That “new baleen whale call” would sound cool mixed into a guitar feedback denouement. Add a little reverb. Nice.

The other big issue that I have with charter schools is the level of greed and corruption that has become evident. Almost every state with a significant charter school presence has seen scandals involving theft, embezzlement, misappropriation of funds, conflicts of interest, bankruptcies or other issues leaving…

I just finished Joel Selvin’s  Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels,and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day, perhaps the only book I read this year actually published in 2016. It’s a brisk but highly informative read which examines the events leading up to and the aftermath of the shit storm that would…

I’m not a fan of the show, but it seems that Rossum has had a lot more on-screen time and crucial story involvement in the last couple seasons. I might be wrong as I only check in occasionally.

So we’re almost at the “Nazis had the coolest uniforms!” phase?

What’s especially troubling is that claims such as this one, that world leaders are engaged in organized “child sex rings”, is that they have traditionally been promoted by the absolute fringe of the fringe: the “one-percenters” of the professional conspiracy community. But now these stories are beginning to infect…

Why does humanity have to suffer because a few dozen assholes either don’t understand science or know better and have gleefully sold out to corporations?

A general strike, joined by workers not in unions, would be HUGE. But the system is such that people can’t afford to strike. A strike would have to be so widespread and formidable, with so much participation, that it essentially protected strikers from being fired, too, if you get my meaning. But things would have to…

That’s fine, but if it were me, and I don’t know why gender would matter, though I hope and am fairly sure the women in my life would do the same (I don’t have kids, but a niece lives with me) I woulda slapped the shit outta the guy, setting and circumstances be damned! Or at the very least called attention, like…

That picture proves what an ungentlemanly shit Trump is. He should be walking up JUST BEHIND his wife and son. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words.

Yes, but it doesn’t look like his hand is UNDER the skirt either, so...I dunno. Why didn’t she just make a scene about it and call him out at the moment it supposedly happened? The whole incident just seems bizarre to me. Nobody involved seemingly acted like a real person.

If a stranger reached up under my skirt and grabbed my ass, I’d slap the shit out of them. But I’m a guy and...don’t wear skirts.

I admired Roger Ebert very much, but I never saw any reason to defer to him. He no doubt watched hundreds more movies than I have, but that has no bearing on my taste or opinion.

The “porn world” is seen as a separate subculture, cut off from the “real world” and therefore it’s often difficult to relate to the performers in any meaningful way. It’s a rarefied and insulated business, and the industry probably prefers it that way.

I can’t know if he’s a jerk, but I don’t think he’s a particularly good actor. He’s been around so long now that, yes, he’s done a good job in a few roles, but I think he misses more often than he hits. He’s taken too many roles for which he’s poorly suited. J.Edgar Hoover and Howard Hughes? He’s too big a star and…

Well, we have forever been promised a future where technology operates as if by magic. Perhaps we’ve arrived at that future too soon(?)