“What the fuck did you do to help today, by the way?”

I’ve made that exact same point elsewhere on this thread.

Well, professional athletes also put a lot of wear and tear on their bodies and are the reason the sports make so much money in the first place. That’s why I don’t give athletes crap for making their money (not saying you are either, just musing).

Beyond that, he’s right to a point. A lot of people who make money like…

Now, that’s an interesting point. Mr. Glitch. You’re correct. His actions could impact the support staff and crew. Not sure that was what the article was talking about. It was a bit vague. Maybe his endorsements, etc? Not so much the actual show?

True. I guess this is a case where I see somebody who certainly seems to be being genuine. And even though this financial dip may not even register (provided he’s not pulling a Joey Lawrence), he is still hitting on things like gun control, healthcare, and Donald Trump in a very raw and direct manner even though it is…

No doubt, and good for him. I have no issues with him doing that. Wasn’t my point.

Oh I wasn’t arguing - I agree with everything you’ve said.

I mean, I’m not sure I’d call it groundbreaking per se. There’s a very impressive level of practical technical proficiency at work, certainly. But it’s not like it’s even the first movie to have an extended first-person sequence inspired by videogames. See for instance Doom, or actually don’t, it’s kindof a fun movie…

I don’t blame Kimmel for selflessly taking the side of the genuinely poor and working-class who do benefit from affordable health coverage, and thus need all the advocacy they can get (especially if they have children with a similar condition to his son).

My issue wasn’t with the son thing, it was that his politcal stances “hurt me commercially.”

I generally agree, but where do we draw the line on medical costs? 2 million dollars? 5 million? 20 million? 100 millon?

Plenty of non-rich people oppose universal health care, so I doubt the whole “Don’t you care about poor children?” argument is gonna work with them.

Kimmel’s political turn ramped up last year when his son was born with a congenital heart defect, a condition that might not have been covered by insurance under the pre-Affordable Care Act system—meaning it could’ve essentially been a death sentence.

Doing Blooms’ walk around Dublin is fun, too. They really dig Joyce there, despite the fact that he wanted dick-all to do with Ireland.

And humane--at least for me. The pissing contest (who can get higher on the wall?) is one of my favorite banal scenes.

I’ve read it twice, five years between the readings. The first time I had some trouble understanding it, but the second time I got it much quicker.

Ugh. That sounds awful. The only other Pynchon book I’ve attempted is The Crying of Lot 49. It was fine. Didn’t exactly leave me wanting more. Though you’d think I’d like him given that I love stuff like Infinite Jest and White Noise. Maybe I’ll try Bleeding Edge at some point or give Gravity’s Rainbow another go.

Keep in mind that Ulysses was initially published in installments over a couple of years. It’s a book best read at a leisurely pace. 

I also read it thinking to show off my intellectual muscle at fictional future dinner parties. I made myself finish it even when I got very little from it. Now I think of it as the literary equivalent of a game like Dark Souls. Some people love it for the challenge/theoretical reward (only theoretical because I didn’t…

Great, I guess, but pretty easily gamed by a bad-faith opponent - they can just as easily deny that the argument you refuted was the "best" one (after all, if you refuted it, how good could it really have been, plus it's the argument you picked, so obviously you cherry-picked a weak argument to address), or an…