I have two kids about the same age. But I’m not going to judge someone else’s pain.

And that’s how Trump & Co. are different.

We’re all murderous kill bots.

There are times when I’d like my sliders adjusted.

No more Japan? Too bad... But at least we’ve got samurai Armistice.

Didn’t Meet the Feebles do basically the same thing?

Like Bob Fosse, JCM is a brilliant theater artist whose films are successful—when they are—because of the strength of his self-penned / freely adapted material, not because of his ability as a film director.

Like the drug dealers who would watch Scarface and think, “that seems like a good job.”

“Maiko” also means an apprentice geisha, so an alternate translation might be “Akane’s Apprentice.” Nice double meaning.

What, she used “less” when she should have used “fewer”?

(Old) William: “Some people are better off dead.”

You mean 1940 France?

Aside from a strong desire to chase the mail man, i’m in perfectly good health.

Deplorable, but unfortunately hardly specific to the South or to America. Remember that ad a couple of years ago from China where the black guy gets pushed into a washing machine and comes out a Chinese man?

One of the most horrifically intense movies ever, with amazing performances by both Judd and Shannon. Some people just can’t take it, even though they can sit through films with a hundred times more violence and gore.

And he even floated the idea of ignoring the term limit due to the emergency.

The big difference beteween Westworld and Rajworld is that the mythic Old West was chaotic and lawless, and therefore fairly equal-opportunity. The Raj, in contrast, was a strictly hierarchical, caste-based society, with race being the biggest discriminating factor. In Westworld we saw all kinds of people—remember the…

It’s certainly true that corporate power is on the upswing, and corporate-world dystopias are “in” now ... but it’s always dangerous to predict future realities based on current trends. As always, our vision is short and our scope is limited.

I addressed this in another post... to the effect that in this future, unlike our present, major corporations are restricted from access to heavy military hardware.

But some are wearing pith helmets!