Yep. The hazy nostalgia around LBJ tends to ignore that many of the programs of the Great Society were the first significant attempt at Federal block grants and many of them went about as well as you’d expect - the intent of the programs were often ignored by the local boards and the money used for things entirely…

Douglas’ bewildered yet competent CO of The Final Countdown was one of my favorite roles for him.

He was discharged in 1944 for injuries.

As you begin your self-isolation, I do have some forsythia for sale - which is now available via any number of delivery services!

Spoilers lie ahead; you’ve had nine years to see this movie.

He’s also a wealthy white male who’ll eventually come back.

Considering the last interaction between the two was the groundhog squealing as he was being incinerated in a flaming wreck in the bottom of a pit, I’m glad they finally had a chance to fix things. I hadn’t thought about it until just now, but that was the one relationship that he never even tried to work out in all…

Given how influential they were to other artists, I didn’t realize until reading the obits that Gang of Four never had a Top 40 hit.

Not only does Abrams plan on running for president, she plans on winning

“This is a story about people making really bad decisions. Kathy Scruggs gets it wrong, and doubles down on getting it wrong until the end...I totally understand why she did what she did. I think it’s totally wrong, but I completely understand it.

Iowa has caucuses because it tried to switch away from them in 1916 and spent $122,000 on a presidential primary election. Even the sitting Governor who’d called for primaries as a reform measure felt it was a waste of money based on how few candidates participated and how even fewer people came out to vote, and…

Well, obviously Berg, and it’s a long enough book that it may very well take you between today and when the series comes out to finish.

Like pretty much everything else surrounding him, it’s complicated.

I’m looking forward to this.

Interesting interview. The pararescue guys are generally pretty hardcore, so it’s amusing that he was both a bit of a screwup while in and turned into a writer once he got out. He also has a touching story about running into one of his translators during a cab ride after his brother was murdered.

The former soldiers on Iya’s ward have all sustained severe, life-altering injuries

I’d add Richard Madden’s role in that scene as well, which says something new in a very old way.

I think that goes to the heart of my problem with the show so far, which is that it doesn’t seem to have any idea what it wants to be.

I like this movie simply because it’s turned into a weird meta for real-life-Gwynnie. She’s a combination of her own character, who doesn’t particularly give a damn about her actions and who they affect, as well as Jude Law’s character, who peddles quack health remedies, hurts a lot of people, and gets rich in the…

The teenage daughter of Paltrow and Damon does go nuts because she can’t see her boyfriend, so you’re partially covered.