Every week, I read these recaps and I only want to know if they have run away yet.

“Happy holidays” when one’s clearly just talking about Christmas always struck me as weird. It’s a weitd sort of quasi-inclusivism to elevate everyone else’s minor holidays just because they’re near Christmas and ignore their actual holidays later. It’s well intentioned, and it’d be dumb to be angry about it though.

Fair enough.

How many of Erdogan’s agents ran Romney’s campaign, or hillary’s or so on? Yeah, lots of people hire people who lobby for the devil. Very few presidential candidates have their campaigns ran by foreign agents for dictators or place foreign agents in charge of national security after they win.

Manafort and Flynn are literally registered foreign agents for Russia-aligned parties / states. They are not even pretending. There’s no way to say that Trump was not working for Russian interests.

The pee tape could come out and you’d still deny it.

You could walk in on Putin fucking your wife (or, more likely,…

He does not give off late Habsburg vibes. The late Habsburgs had strong, beautiful jaws. This guy has no jaw or neck. He looks like a knudeln, a German dumpling, ready to be chewed up by the powerful mandibles of the Habsburgs.

With Esme’s actions, I’m glad at least one character realizes they’re in a war. Those SS agents (wow. On the nose much?) had it coming.

Changing something before release is different.

Half the time, if I want to read an AVC review of a movie that came out more than 2 days ago, I have to go to Rotten Tomatoes first.

Starred for picking Before Midnight as the definitive trilogy-ender.

The Red Shoes. There should be one The Red Shoes reboot per year.

I’m pretty sure the tax exemption is required by the constitution and codified in the tax code and treasury regulations only for the sake of clarity. So policy wise the bonds are bad, but the federal government can’t really do anything about it even if it wanted to.

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…