I grew up in dairy country where the heavily-subsidized farmers constantly decried stagnant milk prices and voted straight GOP. The sort of people who were failing at capitalism and blaming the consumer/market instead of their own inability to adapt to it not being 1955 anymore.

Possibly. But with Yoda’s people being so small and so unknown, there’s no way (after e1) to say for sure he isn’t going to stretch from his nap, crawl out of that carrier and beat down some bounty hunter for the loss of his staff. The “infant” thing is a lot of assumption on our part. 

I didn’t notice his movements as I was too busy digesting just having so much SW scenery to view...but I did feel that there was so much “you’re a mandalorian” and “the mandalorians always...”-type stuff that was pointing to him not being a “real” Mandalorian—like an orphan they took in but not part of the bloodline.

I rewatched T2 this weekend because partner had never seen it and it was cheaper than going to the movies. I really do think that Hamilton’s Connor had a lot to do with the success of that movie. Sure, like a lot of teens I saw it in 1991 because Arnie and explosions, but looking at it with adult eyes, she’s a very…

I’ll chime in to agree. Solo was the first Star Wars movie I didn’t see in the theater on original release, dating back to the 1970s. It really had nothing to do with the movie itself. I was burnt out on my fellow SW fans and all the hot takes and life was just too overwhelming—I didn’t see Ant Man & Wasp that summer…

As a lifelong Star Wars fan, yes.

Take my money. 

I totally agree, but as an Old Nerd...back in the day, continuity used to matter a lot. Perhaps it was gatekeeping or preserving our little space against outsiders, but we inexplicably fixated on One True Version. 

Having worked for some sports teams over the years, I’d take the position that hockey players are ill-educated but baseball players are incapable of education. There’s just nothing there to work with. Cognitively, I mean. As the point of the article attests, there’s a lot to work with otherwise. 

In my day job I have a whole folder of reports on jail suicides. Almost all of them follow this pattern. 

Good.

One of my gripes with NWSL, as much as I love it, is they really seem to do a lot of the partner deals. Maybe because it’s the only league where people are so openly out, and it does happen elsewhere more quietly, but from the uniqueness of it people can draw the conclusion that it’s not a real or serious sports…

I would love to see those three players get out of WAS. Pugh feels like her game isn’t growing anymore, but then that’s the standard story for a wunderkind who plateaus and hasn’t had to push as much. (I’m saying this with regard to athletes who have worked their entire lives harder than I’ve worked in a day, but I…

I love some NCC, being in the old WNY Flash market and feeling a connection that somehow Hinkle and Mathias haven’t broken...but expansion to thin that team out a little will be good.

I was amused--if “amused” includes fiery rage--by various hot takes by people opposed to this hire because they’ve created this myth that Rapinoe ordered the hiring of her pro coach and, in their flag-humping hatred of her, they oppose Vlatko. 

My mom and dad both have (varying degrees of) gout. My dad used to down beer (crappy stuff that was probably laden with asbestos or something) and my mom had maybe six a year. It’s just one of the factors, but an easy one to triangulate. 

I enjoyed this, as it really highlights the shitheaded ideas Spanfeller’s ilk have about people who aren’t fabulously wealthy and therefore are part of the criminal class.

So, the Lovie Smith playbook? 

Hey, at least it’s a term that people might know and have had defined for them in the past. Probably by HR in a serious meeting. 

I spent a week getting my post number up on TWOP so I could have whatever the hardcore-poster title was before it shut down. I commented shit on shit just for the clicks. So at least you were in before the boom fell, I guess?