It’s disappointing that the veterans, the ones who have first-hand experience with the United States’ campaign of endless war, have so far met this news with radio silence.

You need 3/4 of the states to ratify. IIRC, half of the Bill of Rights wouldn’t have made it in had all the states in the Union at the time been required to sign off initially (although later they all did).

Thanks. I’ve not seen a real review of this yet and wondered if it was worth my time, and based on what you’ve written it clearly is!

“What the hell is this?”

(He also spoofed his “bill” appearance on The Simpsons and Family Guy.)

In 1986, The Real Ghostbusters animated series premiered, hyping us for the 1989 sequel even more.

“avoided discussing it and grew evasive about the future,”

Apnea that has existed long and been severe enough to outright cause heart failure at 24 is generally not going to be the case.

I was going to see ROS on Christmas or the day after, but everyone else had the same idea and it was just far too crowded for a movie that’s received the reviews it has. I’ll probably see a matinee this week.

I’ve found I’m doing a different version of steak and eggs nowadays.

Can you provide a pronunciation guide to those?  That’s kinda fascinating.

I’ll do Die Hard once every few years, but this one is something I make time for every year if for no other reason but to have the soundtrack in the background. Amazing considering that both CBS and Mendelson were ready to write this off a week before broadcast, but then it ended up pulling a 45 share and becoming a…

I have some vague memories of being excited that FTP was newly implemented via browser command line on (probably) Netscape Navigator circa the late 90s and was thrilled that I didn’t have to switch over to a client or command line, but I also couldn’t tell you the last time I used it for a file.

Add For All Mankind to that list of shows that would have benefited from focusing on plot arcs contained in the first season rather than setting things up for the insta-pickup second season.

One sign that I made the right career choice in getting out of politics was that I’ve still never made it through a full episode of West Wing, but I did indeed think of Marc Rich when this first hit.

(or more—no such thing as too much cheese, I say)

Isn’t it curious though...Bevin had his entire term to pardon, yet chose to do it in this exit spree?

Uh, no. Two of the most prominent pardons that were actually proper were for African Americans, and there were plenty of others.

Based on what they’ve talked about to investors, my strong suspicion is that they viewed the trilogy mostly through the lens of ROI - both current and future.

Great link. While I’m obviously with you on the scattershot approach, I just don’t believe Abrams completely on this given he’s desperately trying to cover what he’s done to the series.