around these parts (Richmond VA suburbs) we have what my wife and I call the WaWa Militia - four or five older gentlemen who stand outside the local convenience store on Saturday mornings drinking coffee and aggressively open-carrying their pistols on their belts, already straining heavily against gravity’s pull.

...and my mouse!

I haven't watched in years, but does Tim Robbins still show up drunk off his ass talking, stream-of-consciousness into the camera at some point?

The only reason I can come up with that anyone uses the “likes their plan” justification is the fact that they’re afraid anything else will be worse. Given the insurance industry (and, y’know, government bureaucracy), I can totally understand this attitude.

yeah, I mean, we *could* be looking at Two Girls, One....um...perhaps not.

I think they *do* have it, but basically told us exactly how they’re going to use it their inaction after Sandy Hook.

That description’s not dissimilar to Senator Harris’s plan that snagged all the headlines earlier this week.   A lot of the opposition to the Warren and Sanders plans is that it creates the impression that it takes people’s choices away (“I don’t want to give up my current insurance!”) - ideally, the public option/M4A…

...and not at all gently.

“Doesn’t [he] look tired?”

It drives me crazy that Jimi’s guitar is strung backwards...

if nothing else, this gets the actual contents of the report presented to people who’d never read the damned thing, but might enjoy this particular spectacle.

Girls named Karen (formerly Kitty) wearing short skirts and long jackets?

This is all about NDT’s “science to the masses” thing - he does a whole live/lecture show where he spends 90 minutes or so using bad movie science to talk about how the science actually works, with plenty of jokes to make it to make it entertaining and accessible.

Since Lidl moved in, I do most of my shopping there (great prices, interesting selection, plus the “surprises” section, where I actually once bought a chainsaw), and Kroger for the stuff Lidl doesn’t carry.

I dunno...most of the Krogers in my area have a giant fancy cheese shop inside, right next to the bar stocked with local brews.

that makes a lot of sense; Inhumans are basically burned for the MCU for the forseeable future.  I’m okay with trashing continuity and giving the Eternals a teleporting giant bulldog pet though - the MCU needs Lockjaw.

Hi, Neighbor!  I’m on the opposite side of the city (Chesterfield); sometimes I feel like the lone blue household amongst a sea of red (even if my district is represented by a Democrat in the house now). My social circles don’t run much into my local community (apart from some “small business owners” who are socially…

Bon Jovi’s twice that to Booker has me confused for that reason - 2800 each from Mr and Mrs Bon Jovi?  

that reflects my experience when I lived there in my youth...

...but at least one of those categories vote for him pretty reliably, so he’s able to resist saying the quiet part loud, if only in this one instance.