This commentary is pretty movie heavy, but since you've brought up my favorite issue of Top Ten and the speech by the cosmic space horse, I'm going to admit that my first thought is Death: The High Cost of Living. I'm not same person I was as a teen, but I'll probably crack that open soon.

I once saw that movie in double bill with The Road Warrior—it was glorious for me and the 3 people I dragged into the college theater (which was probably the whole audience).

I share the sentiment—that Luther Campbell's written a nice thing—but thirty years ago Trump was already a racist, misogynist, unctuous human being, and setting the bar real low. I have a feeling that given a moment of reflection back then, you'd still have picked Campbell.

The president hasn't been nearly as effective as they're meant to be, but "the president can't really do much" is really, really wrong. Foreign policy specifically being the territory that they've always had large leeway with, and Congress having long abdicated the responsibility of oversight regarding military action.

Hmm. Overture is good good. I feel like the other two scratched the itch but aren't stories I ever think about.

I have a lot of good feelings for Keanu, but he didn't work for me at all in the role (and Chas is off), but otherwise it's a pretty successful movie I thought. Maybe not the holy shotgun bit, Tilda Swinton and the devil were great.

Hmm, I'd say it's still dressed up. It lands as actual violence, that's true, but he's also pretty transparent about what he wants you to feel. It's still a style.

Martyr complex maybe.

To quote Space Lincoln: There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its ending.

Except he didn't sleep with her in Riddick?

Aw, I think it's a little more safe than it needed to be not to use goat. But even this has gotta sell. A little shy around the fact that the WoW races are more than "vaguely" inspired by different real world cultures.

I haven't played the latest, but the slow production has been true through many iterations—I'm inclined to think it's intentional by now, and actually, it's one of their ways of pointing to "progress" toward the systems that produce more money, and then you pay for them. Intentionally or not, it translates to me to…

I didn't say they weren't and I didn't say it should. I once went to a wedding where a chicken dish came with the chicken's head—not for eating but present, and most of the table turned away from it. Which is to say, the visual appeal is variable among the diners, not that being visually appealing isn't important. The…

The face thing is cultural—well, I suppose it's all cultural—but for the most part I think it shows understanding of where food comes from. Also face parts are delicious. That said, we're not running out of delicious things, and I'm unconvinced that all these things a lot of delicacies are more delicious instead of…

In addition to Myanmar, as other people have pointed out, the Sinhalese side of the Sri Lankan is predominantly Buddhist. The Sri Lankan Civil War is filled with brutality on both sides, but having won, the powers that be now aren't exactly done.

So a couple of years ago I went to the first Wawa ever in years, and they had those touch screen sandwich creation machines so you never had to interact with a person, and no matter what you made, they always had "a little oil", "medium oil", "a lot of oil", and also "add pepperoni?"

Was I a kid who took out "Magick and Theory and Practice" from the library more than once? Yup, I was. But my interest turned academic pretty early as well—I like learning the way traditions transform over borders or time, rituals with some mystic purpose maybe from one way to another. I suppose that comes from a…

Way back when I did a read of the Confucian Analects in a class, and at least my read of it was that Confucius didn't really believe that spirits needed appeasing, but they created the right sort of routines. You should hold your parents in greater esteem than your uncles, or other relations, so you mourn them a full…

The fact that the voice acting casting seems to operate the same way is somehow extra depressing. She's a bit nicer about it than I think it deserves.

I didn't stay in Catholic education long enough to get indoctrinated into too much—my family sent me to Catholic school because where we were the public schools were too dangerous—but I remember being really happy hearing the Adam and Eve story because me and my friends were all related.