That’s not whataboutism. Whataboutism is where one country deflects criticism by complaining about problems in another country. It was coined from how the Soviet Union would deflect criticism by the US of their persecution of dissidents with statements like “What about what you did to the Indians or are doing to Black…

He’s a bit like Angela Lansbury was. She looked 50 when she was 30, but she still looked 50 well into her 70s. Elliot is nearly 80 and still looks more or less like he did in Road House.

Well, the article itself mentions fucking it. Which I suppose could be as reference to one of the other orfices used for that action, but probably not.

That would suggest cable is a national treasure though. If it *wasn’t* the most played movie, then you would have an argument that cable was worthless.

I don’t think you can really attribute Sam Elliot looking like he was 65 when he was 45 to “people aged differently in those days”. That was weird even then.

That’s why I had an idea to play on the title with a new story. It’s about a group of students who have won a prestigious, yet controversial (because it is named for a notorious colonizer) scholarship to Oxford and decide to get a place together to live. The title of course is Rhodes House.

I guess. But I know Chinese immigrants who fled to the US in the wake of the 1989 crackdown, and Vietnamese ones who were loyal to the South before Saigon fell. They might not like the Communist regimes in their old countries and want the US to put pressure on them to improve human rights, but they don’t hate the…

Hey, being a cooler is better employment than most philosophy graduates get!

And could it be the spark of many a mature romance bringing the two types together?

DAs are cops

Reminds me of the old (like 20-years ago) rant by games reviewer “Old Man Murray” about how crates in video games rarely have pallets under them. “How the hell did the crate get there? Do the game developers not understand how forklifts work?”

It’s like the old joke about M. Night Shyamalan (although M. Night at least somewhat redeemed himself later with Split)

“You should have worn your toque, you hoser!”

I was curious about that but it may have been a coincidence — le Carre’s novel was published in late 2008 and “The Great Satan” aired in 2009. It’s possible that the author of the script read the book and quickly wrote a script for the upcoming season, but it is also possible that both were loosely based off real…

I mean, yeah, Castro, and his brother, and the new guy are Communist dictators, which isn’t great, but the US doesn’t embargo China or Vietnam which are also run by Communist dictators. It’s so arbitrary.

All these years later most of those “eviscerees” are still ensconced in their positions of power

There will be lots of room for product placement for Tim Hortons though!

The original series focused more on the DAs and the cops were frequently shown as incompetent idiots — it really wasn’t a “coproganda” show. On the other hand, glorifying the US’s legal system isn’t that great either.

Ambrose in general was a pretty sloppy writer who has been shown to have committed cases of plagiarism in at least six of his books and in his doctoral dissertation. And he’s made some glaring factual errors in some of them apparently because he misread his sources. Still, I get why he was popular — he wrote well and…

To be fair, “slogging through mud again, but on a different island” is pretty much what the Pacific theater was.