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Yes, exactly! Well put. Having a bunch of free time this summer, I’ve been doing a sort of idle Star Wars marathon, and it struck me that the prequels were, story-wise, so potentially exciting. Eff all that noise about “trade wars are boring” blah blah blah. They were new stories, and so interesting—theoretically,…

Yes, that’s the reason for the weird title. Master and Commander is the first book of the series; The Far Side of the World is like the ninth or tenth.

Don’t think it was really a franchise attempt. The Aubrey-Maturin cycle does have 20 books (and is AMAZING); the film picks a sort of grab-bag of incidents from at least 4-5 of them (maybe more). It’s more an attempt to encompass the whole cycle.

No, your expectation is that the show “craft...sophisticated, meaningful story arcs.” It’s right there in your first, way-too-involved-and-angry comment.

Outraged? No, we just think you’re an easily-duped chud.

Love Magary and the funbag, but skipped it today and forever in favor of the following PSA:

Shorter: football announcers talk too much (does the author lard his prose about Tessitore as much as Tessitore lards the commentary?). Both play-by-play and color guys. And it’s at its worst in the NFL.

By the way, there’s a boob in this movie.

Why are the teams I hate the most always, always, always fucking winning? I just want like one three-year span in my lifetime when fucking Alabama, the fucking Steelers, the FUCKING Ohio State University, and the fucking Cardinals ALL FUCKING SUCK DONKEY BALLS. Please. Just three years.

The worst punishment for being convicted of treason, of course, isn’t just being “impeached,” but rather being killed by the state. Trump knows this.

But does she use “drop” when “release” will do?

The inevitable reply! You like your left-liberal thought safe and community-approved.

Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ, Splinter, just give the Pelosi/Congressional Democrat hate a rest for, like, two days. That’s all we ask. Just give us a couple of days off. It’s exhausting, and it makes you look like petulant, contrarian-on-purpose dickheads. Please. Begging.

Hey, while we’re at it, can we stop calling it “dropping,” as in the band is “dropping” an album? “Release” is a perfectly good word.

Maybe Pelosi and Tlaib were “right” at different points in the progress towards impeachment. Certainly it’s good to highlight the early progressive push. But god the simplistic framing here is infuriating.

So far, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been the single biggest obstacle to the Trump White House facing even a shred of accountability

“creating to the corruption”? “made a lie”? I know it’s low-hanging fruit, but in what world is that not a senile person talking?

All of it seems absurd.

You must not be from around here.