Scanners. David Cronenberg. A young Michael Ironside doing incomparable face acting. The movie is low budget psychic-killer nonsense but it had one big gory mess of a scene:

Since The Matrix?  I can’t think of anything.  Before The Matrix?  Yeah, Jurassic Park is right there.  I’d say the face-melting CGI from Terminator 2 was another moment where a special effect blew me away.  We’d seen it in The Abyss but Terminator took that effect to another level.

If you think Trump is an easy target right now you’re fooling yourself.

One of the things the article did a good job of doing was knocking down all of Biden’s perceived strengths. You say Biden would win Ohio. But he supported NAFTA in 1994 and permanent trade relations with China in 2000- two things that sounded the death knell for America’s manufacturing economy. Did you still think…

Read this entire article then tell me if you still think Biden’s a good candidate: https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/joe-biden-record/.

She’s gone now and this album makes anyone listening mourn her lost potential - Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black”:

Really you can throw the entire Anita Baker “Rapture” album on this list, but let’s start with this:

This suggestion will show my age but how about the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul- Mary J. Blige. “What’s the 411?” made her king/queen of NY for a bit there in the 90s and these three songs led the way:

Bob Marley - Legend - he had earlier work but this monster album hit like a thunderbolt in the states - the first three songs are:

Okay. I’m not a comfortable white liberal. My question is simple: what would you tell my friends who work in the Federal government, who said to me they could skip, maybe, one paycheck before they’d start defaulting on day care bills, mortgage payments, rent payments, and the like? Some people were forced to come in…