I know all of you will hate me and I love you regardless but this is another one of those things I’m just prepared to hate for absolutely no reason having never seen it.

Shawshank Redemption, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Jurassic Park, The Godfather, 2001:ASO, To Kill a Mockingbird, LOTR, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, Children of Men, The Remains of the Day (a personal favorite), LA Confidential, Requiem for a Dream, Coraline, Black Mass, Howl’s Moving Castle...

There are few SF properties more deserving of a remake than Dune. That said, the Lynch version should be sitting on every sci-fi fan’s video shelf. It ain’t perfect but, for what it is, it’s mighty fun. Just to see Sting stretch like a cat, or Patrick Stewart be Patrick Stewart be someone else, is worth the cost…

For many who are inside, I imagine this feels positive ESPECIALLY since there are still a lot of Catholics who would disagree with the Pope’s stance.

You no longer encourage Passion plays, you don’t put all the blame for your god’s death on the Jews, you’ve apologized for supporting Hitler, you regret the Crusades, you don’t think that unbaptized babies should go to hell, you now realize that trafficking unwed mothers’ babies to the rich is wrong, and now, you’ll…

I mean, I was Catholic for a very long time, and I assure you that this still doesn’t really change anything. It’s still an automatic and immediate excommunication upon completion of the abortion (latae sententiae). It remains a crime on par with physically attacking the pope himself. And excommunication was always…

I applaud your equanimity, but I think this is fucking outrageous. It reminds me of the unbelievably obnoxious NYT headline last week that said Trump was considering pardoning Hillary Clinton. WTF. She doesn’t need fucking forgiveness, and neither do we: women, the abortion-having majority.

Yeah, but do you realize how ostensibly ridiculous that is. The Pope (according Catholicism’s own internal ruleset) is the guy next down from God. If the next guy down from God thinks abortions are not the worse thing, then by the ruleset of CATHOLICISM god is Ok with it to. So he should be able to just say that and…

If there were a legitimate excuse for the church to have difficulty not vilifying women, I’d feel sympathetic. As it stands though, nope!

I find the idea that women need to be saved from eternal damnation for taking control of their own bodies offensive.

Nah, offensive is people treating this as some grand gesture of inclusion. Fuck that.

“You’re evil but we’ll still take your donations and tell you what to do each week” is really more of a step to the side from “you’re evil,” not a step forward.

So if someone isn’t quite as much of a total and complete asshole to you today as they were yesterday, you should thank them?

They do exist, but most of the U-Pick places around me have gone back to hiring migrant harvesters and selling at a roadside stand. The local religious communities would show up in long dresses with hidden pockets sewn inside, pay for a couple quarts, and walk out with a dozen quarts of berries secreted under their…

Helluva big difference between picking a flat of strawberries and picking a day’s worth.

True fact:

First off, manufacturing is a lot less labor intensive than it used to be. It’s no longer the robots everywhere craze of a little while ago (Toyota, for example, has pulled back a bit on automation because they found that allowed them to build slightly smaller, more flexible assembly plants that were better able to…

Neutral: Can We Even Bring Back American Jobs?

FUCK THE GOD DAMN VERNIER SCALE ITS 2016 WE HAVE DIALS AND DIGITAL DISPLAYS GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT 1800s SHIT

A digital or a dial caliper. All those tools, you have to work at it, but just holding a proper caliper around any sort of machinery makes you look official and look like you know something.