How about just the simple fact that happier people do better work?

It’s called a workplace culture bub.  Tends to be influenced by people at the top.  

Seems we’re getting a lot of these-snowflakes-need-to-suck-it-up type comments. It would be nice if at some point people realized that mentality is why workplace cultures deteriorate to the point where people, often bleeding from a thousand cuts, start contemplating suicide. Yes, there is a degree to which people need…

Whatever you think of the rankings, I’d say this list is pretty Onatopp of things.

I am long since through the looking glass from oh-whatever-boring-boomer-rock to you-know-what-good-for-them.  

Ah man.  Never seen it. I really should. 

I don’t know if I agree about them not trying, but I will say the only Blofeld-specific lair in the Craig era was absolutely the least exciting.  

I enjoy the pure Bond energy of Dr. No. Everything is fresh, nothing is cliche, everyone is young and svelte, Connery is maximum invested and dangerous in a way he never would be again. Jack Lord is the best Felix until Jeffrey Wright. It’s an aggressively problematic movie of course. They all are until sometime in…

Austin Powers actually owes more a debt to You Only Live Twice, which established the visual template for Blofeld and gave us the first truly outlandish villain lair.

Ron Jeremy.  Ron Jeremy was in there for just a second.  Swear to God.  

It was pretty damn impactful here too. Sadly, regarding Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire was merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.

It just goes to show you should never underestimate people’s appetite for caustic, deadpan satire about linguistics and 18th Century Anglo-Irish politics.

Yeah, that’s definitely the WTF takeaway from this list.  How DARE those movies be well-crafted escapist fun?  Also, Trainspotting deserves a lot better than “slight redemption.”  

Sociocultural era and musical genre identified correctly.  Thanks so much.  

If I were making this list I’d be the insufferable contrarian who puts Screaming Lord Sutch’s “Flashing Lights” at number one.  Which may be why I’m not making this list.  

Interestingly, you might think Christianity would be a force for peace in post-Roman Britain, but it’s cynically used as a decoy by faithless power mongers.

I can do art-not-artist under some circumstances but it’s a mental process and a personal choice, not a moral imperative like some people make it out to be. If a living person is diddling kids and I’m funding that by consuming their stuff, fuck them completely. If someone was self-important and mean to their friends,…

With special guest, George Harrison!  

Yeah, my high school definitely did not have concrete social stratification of the Hughes (or, for that matter, Veronica Mars) kind. But I think if you broke things down by race, immigration history, and disability, or just talked to someone with whatever social challenges who was truly on the bottom rung, you’d get a…

To say nothing of the flute.