Ebola was also referenced in the correctly-rated animated film Osmosis Jones and at least one not-good Tom Clancy novel that came out in the early 2000s.

Until just this very moment, I thought my dad used to own the rustiest pickup not at the bottom of the ocean. He still had upwards of 90% of the bed not rusted through, which is basically an entire car compared to this poor thing.

Spending a shitload of money on medical services, and also being full of demons.

Eh, they probably figured they’ll burn off. They clearly planned to just roast them alive anyway.

It’s always fun to find out how your favorite creators were barely stopped from kneecapping their own creations by circumstance and the gentle advice and help (and sometimes direct confrontations) of the people around them. Like, they just asked their wife, or a friend, or their actor, and found out that their very…

That, or they’d be in a building that doesn’t exist in an area with some kind of nebulous legal status listening to “Baby Shark” very loud and with a slightly varied rhythm 25 hours a day while a disgraced psychiatrist in clown makeup asks them the same four questions every 11.6 seconds.

That’s a good point. I was only thinking of that one guy they shot dead (in New York?) and then tried to play like he’d tried to kill them with his car.

This thing has been shot down no less than three times, and every time, our GA goes in, tries to tinker with it juuuuust enough to get it through, and then passes “another version.”

I think she’s still in a three-way tie for the tier right below where Sanders and Buttigieg (who is somehow still in this???*), though. She’s getting comparable actual support to Biden and Bloomberg.

Pretty sure they already killed at least one person in the last six months with this kind of action. 

Yes, that is the moral thing to do, when the alternative is that we send in federal agents to terrorize them and trample not only their civil rights, but the rights of the people they’re 100% going to profile, detain, and try their damnedest to arrest and deport improperly. That it’s being done as punishment for…

I’ve seen the last two of those, and they’re both fantastic. I did not expect such feelings out of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot as I ended up having, but I had them. My wife, who does not like a lot of the fanciful stuff I like, said the same. Sorry to Bother You is very good and has a lot to say,…

Yeah, I’m really gonna need for my favorite dystopian fiction to stop becoming more alarmingly relevant by the day.

Not to be that person, but there definitely was a country called Palestine for a long while, if not a nation-state in the modern sense. We wouldn’t say Greece wasn’t a country before independence from the Ottomans, right?

Edited comment to say nothing except these shitty statues ought to be melted into something more useful. I bet you could get a lot of napkin rings or drawer pulls out of one of those.

I know it goes without saying for a lot of the conservative evangelical crowd, but the cognitive dissonance of “I have great faith in God, and He’s going to punish everyone with His divine might, but I have to make sure I have a closet full of pilot crackers so He doesn’t accidentally smite me, too, because I don’t…

Exactly. Nothing more advanced than Zork. Text, or nothing.

Dyed sandy hair, tasteless gold jewelry, and a pout? I dunno if he’s going for televangelist, at least for the look.

It never occurred to me, but it probably should have to Boba - relying on a jetpack is crazy dangerous. Not for the normal reasons like “You’re a human missile, and your squishy parts could be badly injured in a bunch of different ways,” but just “The thing might work just long enough for you to get yourself in a bad…

I’m trying to recall (it’s been a while) what the plot was in the second book, and I think it was more that he was trying to lay low after doing some pretty grim revenge on the people who murdered (and lost the stack of) someone he cared about, and in trying to make a living, stumbled into some wild stuff involving…