I almost admire the coke-induced hubris necessary to say “I can improve on Tchaikovsky’s music and make a movie based on the nonsensical story of the Nutcracker.”

The fleets don’t have that many ships (even the biggest fight in Return of the Jedi was less than 50 ships total), so sacrificing a large, hyperspace capable cruiser would only be worth it in extreme circumstances.

I can’t imagine why tv companies are losing market share to streaming services.

Most webjournalism is produced by 22 year old English majors with little real expertise in their subjects. Some turn out to be very good writers, thorough researchers, and insightful, perceptive thinkers. Some crank out 1000 words about how Rudolph is now the hashtag resistance or something who cares no one will read…

I hope Snoke shows up as a force ghost.

Such a form would not be dispositive.

Especially since internet providers and cable providers have local monopolies. This is exactly the sort of market failure that even the most bow-tie-wearing, Milton-Friedman-loving conservative economist dork should approve of. Repealing net neutrality literally benefits less than a dozen corporations. This is so dumb.

1. Hamill missed a chance to drop “Every word that you just said is wrong” on Cruz.

2. The original trilogy was just as political as the recent movies, or more so, but the right wasn’t so obviously ghoulish that it was possible to hide the metaphor. If Kissinger was on Fox News every night, people would have realized…

I don’t think there’s much reason to believe the galaxy had anywhere near as centralized government as we do. Most planets should be fine without the New Republic. The rich on those planets would still be rich.

If somehow Brussels was blown up tomorrow, I guess a lot of people would be scared, but the economies of…

It isn’t really a hypothetical as to whether Vader would pay off war profiteers and bounty hunters. (Spoiler alert for a 37 year old movie: he would).

Please don’t even joke about a new, even bigger death star. I don’t even want to think about the fact that JJ Abrams is probably going to do exactly that.

Remember how after 9/11 the president came on TV and told everyone to go shopping and live life like normal or else the terrorists win?

Or how America has seen two huge gun massacres this fall, and the 1% responded by organizing tax cuts for themselves? Just scale that up to a whole galaxy.

Canada’s immigration/ asylum system isn’t actually friendlier than ours. Trudeau is just less obviously a dick.

People made fun of that senator, but the internet actually is a series of tubes, and those tubes don’t exist without eminent domain and government subsidies. The tubes should be regulated.

Yes, this is all about small mom and pop isps.

I don’t want to specify my not-in-a-bubble credentials because it would be an unverifiable fact that you can’t do anything with. But no, I am not in a bubble. I am fully aware that violence against women is a widespread problem. Barriers to reporting and whether police ever act on reports are infinitely bigger causes…

On further reflection:

The guys saying things like “what, we can’t complement women anymore” are mostly being disingenuous.

You’re clearly not Facebook friends with any gun people. Literally every single news story leads to people saying “the problem isn’t guns. It’s culture / people’s hearts / rap music.”

I guess if Fox was getting sold anyway, Disney is not the worst buyer. At least it didn’t go to Comcast or Amazon.