Seriously? Someone who doesn’t understand that a shot from a massive hand cannon at nearly point-blank range will go through a book (and the person behind the book, and possibly the wall behind the person holding the book) isn’t a danger to society?

As someone with fond memories of Toys R Us from growing up in the 80s...it kinda sucks.

So, he’s proposing an entirely new military service that would be redundant to a major arm of another military service that already exists. But we haven’t been motivated enough to go back to the moon in almost 50 years, and 20+ years of piss-poor support of NASA has all but completely privatized our ability to launch…

When they take away the plate of cold liver and onions you didn’t want in the first place and decide to force-feed you live leeches in a base of human excrement instead, you come to miss the liver and onions by comparison.

I certainly didn’t agree with Tillerson’s lukewarm support of the US diplomatic corps or some of his policy stances, but at least he wasn’t a bungling fucking moron.

I just got back from a week-long business trip with a rented Caddy XTS. Was originally supposed to have a standard midsized car, but the rental office was slammed and a free “upgrade” seemed a better deal than waiting around another half hour for a Chevy Malibu or Chrysler 200.

Since when are chips from a Singapore-based supplier a national security threat? Isn’t Singapore pretty agnostic when it comes to whoever is exerting influence around the Pacific rim? And couldn’t companies just use chips from Intel or Samsung, if there was a problem from the combined Broadcom/Qualcomm?

The guy has tons of talent.

I could almost overlook the no-dog aspect, if he at least had a cat. Or an iguana. Or a parakeet.

Yeah, I have no issue with someone becoming fantastically wealthy for having a revolutionary idea, monetizing it into a company and turning it into an empire. That’s kind of the point of capitalism.

You know, if you someone hates their job as a roofer or a librarian or at the parts counter at an AutoZone...I can empathize. We’ve all had shitty jobs before, and it’s easy to end up in a rut.

Our excuse is that we, collectively, are a nation of idiots.

As much as I enjoyed the book in a “so bad it’s good” way, this movie looks like a train wreck. What made the book fun was the focus on minutiae and silly little details that eventually added up to the broader story. Spielberg is a great director and all, but I don’t see how he can squeeze that down into a two…

Disney starting their own streaming service and pulling rights/content away from Netflix isn’t going to help the process, either. There’s a ton of off-the-wall Marvel stuff that could be great as a series that they’re probably not going to have access to anymore.

“Ad campaign” is the wrong analogy. With an ad campaign, you operate in the open and try to sway people to your side. Nobody is accusing the Russians of hiring a Madison Avenue agency and buying up media placements to influence the election.

Just further proof that most people are, in fact, horrible.

The point of it all wasn’t a single, powerful message. That would be too visible, too easy to trace back to it’s source and contain. Their goal was never to have a “Where’s the beef?” or an Apple 1984 message.

It looks nice, and I might consider one as a replacement if my Pixel 2 was stolen or damaged beyond repair. But there doesn’t seem to be anything so revolutionary about it that would scream “upgrade now” if you have a decent phone from the past couple years already.

Don’t worry. They’re only dangerous in large groups, and even then - only if you’re a low-level spellcaster.

Does he not grasp that Mueller could just get a warrant for the entire contents of his inbox related to the case, and that his testimony is what’s actually being asked of him - not his email management skills?