um, Luke learned how to use the force on the hyperspace trip from Tatooine to Alderaan, and then after a few days in a swamp with Yoda.

As long as he keeps pumping out truly insane performances on American Dad I hope he keeps up his pace as long as he wants to.

Yep

“The Star Wars poster the sequels deserve”

The header made me think they were drinking glasses. Like the ones from the 80s.  I’d buy a set of these. 

Tech bros don’t do paper work.

The thing that bugs me about all this is that surely there must be *some* sort of data recording capabilities on the Ghost or the X-Wing squad?

And... she didn’t say that having defeated Anakin, but having disarmed him, choosing to stop fighting. If she had killed him, she would have been lost, if she had lost, she would have lost. Only by choosing not to fight did she win. Perhaps pointedly, this is essentially the crossroads Anakin reached when battling…

YES. Glad I’m not the only one who caught that. Then she says “I choose to live.” What that meant in this context was she was choosing to move on from just the Jedi Warrior part of her training and reach for the peacemaker part now, and that included moving on (“forgiving,” if you will) from what Anakin chose. If…

[Studio CEO voice] You moviegoers are so demanding! “I want movies that are good,” “I want movies that don’t star violent kidnappers,” “I don’t want the writers to be homeless.” You’re just not being realistic!

We should not fool ourselves into thinking Republicans will respect this result. They are certainly plotting their next move to stop the November measure, and even if that passes, the legislature is certain to look for ways to kneecap it. The same thing has happened repeatedly in other states.

Republicans have no policies or strategies that are popular with the general population. They have given up trying to appeal to the majority. The only plan is to cheat their way into office by any means necessary. 

“Lying right-wing lawmaker continues lying when confronted by original lies. Film at 11.”

Robert Wisdom is the freaking man! Def a top tier Trek guest character.

“the Friday actor explained that he didn’t feel safe taking it because he felt that it was a “six-month kind of rush job.”

Exactly the point I wanted to make, but far better than I could. This article was so US centric it made my French teeth hurt.

No kidding

Good call.

Of course there’s hope for a national holiday about gratitude, calling back to the shared human experience of seasons of bounty and seasons of paucity. That’s basically been the entire history of our species, and there’s nothing wrong with gathering to reflect on the good things we have.

While I agree that all this Pumpkin Spice fall crap is bullshit and that Thanksgiving as some happy Puritan/Native American gathering is bullshit I still think there is hope for Thanksgiving. In my white family there is no Pumpkin Spice cult (we hate the shit) and no devotion to the Puritan myth. We simply like the…