I may rediscover prayer - for a meteor strike during filming - if that happens.

Well, that’s no more crazy than Ronald Reagan’s or Sarah Palin’s interpretations of A Model of Christian Charity.

Closer to 500 vanishing. Three hundred of those jobs were engineering positions that weren’t on the chopping block anyway. So even the 800 number is bullshit, and not just because it’s fewer than 1,000.

Yup. On some level, the whole thing just comes down to “somehow I must somehow seem different, ignoring the fact that I’m doing it in a way that’s like a bunch of other people”. You grew up, you had kids, dude. It’s hardly unconventional, no matter what you’ve named your kids or you have them call you. Just do us all…

About the only thing I haven’t heard as an “iden” name is a throat/sinus clearing noise in front of it, probably only because there isn’t a precious way to spell it.

There are reasons that the “Ice Capades” never offers pieces that take on serious topics like natural disasters, child abuse, drug addiction, sexual assault, and genocide.

I’d love to see the Virginia Museum of Transportation and the NCTM produce a video with the old N&S J-Class 611 on one of its excursion trips. I saw it when passing through Roanoke a few years ago, before they restored it to working condition again - it’s really hard to visualize just how big the damn thing is - just…

It may be a backhanded way of saying that he isn’t close to his father.

Perhaps lessened in impact since the news of Bannon being named Trump’s right-hand-(extended-in-a-familiar-salute-)man broke today.

Plenty of anti-Semites are willing to lean on the “there are some good ones” trope. It’s got a long history.

Yup - I was wondering if it was another teacher, actually.

Mediocrity? Ford. He replaced Agnew because everyone knew he wasn’t crooked, and then Nixon resigned and he ended up President. He really didn’t have much else going for him. He certainly wasn’t the kind of moralizing jackass that Pence is, though.

Clinton never really had to go after Sanders the way Trump would have.

His wife’s role in tanking Burlington College - along with the work that a nonprofit run by her daughter (Sanders’ stepdaughter) was hired to do for the school - would have been a liability as well, and would have blunted Trump’s scandals. (I work…

Automation on the manufacturing side and falling prices for commodities like coal and oil pretty much insure that those jobs aren’t coming back, unless we start with the “state-sponsored enterprise” thing. And the environmental impact of that would be nuts - we’d be better off with a guaranteed minimum living wage,…

He allows them to feel like they’re wearing the boot standing on someone else’s neck, that they’ll be able to benefit from insitutionalized cruelty.

Well, police departments certainly won’t have to worry about those pesky DOJ Civil Rights Division investigations.

The fact that the server was shut down right after the NYT asked about it, and a new one (with a new domain registration) was brought up within days, and the Alfa systems were literally the first systems to look for the new system seems kinda sketchy.

There have been a number of studies that have shown that the wealthy are more likely to engage in unethical behavior. One, in San Francisco, looked at driving behavior.

https://www.wired.com/2012/02/income-and-ethics/

The fact that it was seamless, done with such a slight change in expression and gaze, made it work for me.

It’s based on Waller-Bridge’s Edinburgh Fringe character monologue by the same name. On some level, if you watch it as a monologue performed with other actors, maybe that would make it more palatable?