So, we’re now effectively treating families from Central America who came here to become migrant farm laborers or low-level hospitality workers in the hopes of giving their children better lives the same way we did Bush-era “enemy combatants”?

Meh.  Doomsday prepping is so 2010.  I prefer just hoping for an extinction-level impact, instead.

Option #1: Disney accepts that they hve to cut a deal with the devil and buys 21st Century Fox. We get a coherent MCU that includes previously Fox-licensed content, and maybe more Disney and Fox content end up on Hulu.

If it weren’t for old friends and distant relatives that I’m not close enough with to see or speak with regularly in the real world, but that I would feel kind of sad about letting go entirely...I would have completely walked away from Facebook years ago.

Ah, but the beauty of it is that Disney would become the majority owner of Hulu at that point - which could change the trajectory of the private streaming service situation. It might mean some ridiculous add-on fee for Disney content within Hulu, but at least it might save us from a whole ‘nother service to keep track…

They called her names in a restaurant? Poor baby...it’s not like they imprisoned her children because she fled poverty, violence and hopelessness to try to build them a better life.

Abu Ghraib, but without even the pretense of “terrorism” or “enemy combatants”. Malice for malice’s sake, taken out against defenseless children. Not a huge stretch for the people running the show.

It becomes a lot more relevant when you consider that another country (say, Canada or Mexico) could very easily use the details to bring the USA up for human rights violations in front of the UN, and have the international community along as backup. Ostensibly, because it’s the right thing to do; but if they have to…

The fact that they’re uncomfortable with saying “children in cages” is the exact reason we have to keep using the term. Don’t bury the horror of what’s happening in sanitized Newspeak. Just admit it for what it is, and if it makes you uncomfortable...DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

General rule of thumb: if someone has to quote the Bible to justify a governmental policy, that policy likely has little or no logical, rational basis for existing.

Great. Now we get to hear a bunch of crowing from conservatives about how they were right in claiming they were treated unfairly, as though the dumpster fire that is this administration is somehow otherwise perfectly ok.

In the book, the grenade made more sense. The interior of the nucleus was a huge cavern, and the protomolocule defenses were towering bio-mechanical golems that were much more aggressive than the crystal-tentacle-thingy the show used. SFX budget issues, I guess.

I’m all for open dialogue instead of armed conflict, but how did we get to the point where a sit down with the dictator of NK was more cordial and productive that the G7 meeting?

Annoyed, convinced, whatever. What difference does it make when words mean nothing anymore? At least one of my favorite shows is now in production again. That’s the part I care about.

We’re about to form some ill-conceived economic alliance with Russia, the Philippines and North Korea, aren’t we?

How is there only *one* employee in the entire state government doing these background checks?

As a transplant to Florida who’s lived here for quite some time now, this book sounds fascinating and topical.

It makes a lot more sense if you read the books. The crammed a large chunk of book 3 into that one episode. A lot of that was exposition and background on all the stuff that’s happening now, most of which they’re filling in with either flashbacks or contextual references. It made for some slow reading, but there was…

It was a decent episode, but I think this is where things are getting a little sticky trying to both cover too much in such a short time period and adjust the plotline from the book. I’ll be the first to admit that Abaddon’s Gate drags a little in comparison to the first two books, but it provides a lot of context…