Yes, it’s been a smoke screen for both parties for forty years, a way for candidates who aren’t very different from each other to motivate individual donors and individual volunteers without jeopardizing the reliance both parties have on the same corporate sponsors. It’s no coincidence that pro-life vs. pro-choice is…

Oh, I have no doubt that many “pro-life” Senators and Representatives wouldn’t want to risk being blamed for the consequences of actually overturning Roe v. Wade, and I certainly don’t think Trump cares one way or the other (which is one reason I think the Senate matters, as I could easily see Trump picking a Justice…

Generally true at the Federal level, but Thomas and Alito are not the same as Kennedy and Roberts (not sure about Gorsuch), and getting another Alito/Scalia versus getting another Kennedy (the best we could hope for) could make a huge difference in what States can get away with. Roe v. Wade isn’t going to be…

Poe’s Law + Kinja Is Dead

“Electing Jones means nothing changes re: abortion rights.”

Yes, and Alabama GOP voters told Alabama GOP voters to piss off, because “Alabama GOP voters” is not a hive mind.

The statement I responded to was this, quoted here in full: “I’m sorry but I don’t see the military as social services. Anyone who can not pass the med and psyche eval should not be accepted.”

Toys is my go-to example of a film that could have been flawed-but-great completely ruined by the power of Robin Williams (and to a lesser but significant extent, Trevor Horn). With a committed actor portraying a lost manchild, the surreal images could have made it a classic. Tim Robbins, John Cusack, or Ron Perlman…

They actually made a point of unnecessarily explaining that, Gambon’s character grew up while the family was stationed in England.

I have a lot to say about the films of Verhoeven, and I sum it up thus: He always makes movies about talking lizards with no access to higher brain functions like empathy, and I believe that this is the way he sees the world. His most human character is Officer “Robocop” Murphy, because he can relate most strongly to…

That absolutely sounds like something to complain about, and that is indeed part of my complaint. I go to a theatre to watch a movie, and when it turns into a demo reel for 3-D, I’m going to specifically complain about how bad (=boring) the 3-D is.

No one who can’t pass the med and psyche eval is being accepted.

So, it turns out The Snowy Day was written by a white man.

Scallops wrapped in bacon is tasty, though. Everything gets wrapped in bacon these days, but when I need to get on Mrs. Kit’s good side, I make scallops wrapped in bacon.

Dirty krauts

Check out the Wells review linked above, it’s amazing, and really the only reason I know who Fieri is.

Also a fat shamer. GGG but not XXL

I think the point is that “critically panned” is irrelevant, you know it’s irrelevant, any good drama teacher or theater nerd knows they’re irrelevant, and people see Roth & Oldman play R & G = D all around the world every day, critics don’t get to stop that any more than they get to stop Transformers.

The point is, sometimes a man is supposed to figure out that “You don’t need to do that, come here” is a nice way of saying “Please don’t do that at all”.

Yeah, “communication” makes it sound like talking, but listening and believing is the key to communication, and one half of a couple can’t make it happen.