Americans are funny. 

SUVs are for assholes. If you want to take ownership of your asshole status, I say go for it. 

It also got right the fact that misinformation flows easily through the internet, although I felt at the time that its sneering attitude towards bloggers was slightly misplaced. In particular, I followed several bloggers in 2006-2007 who were tracking the looming problem in mortgage reset defaults and the chaos this…

It does seem reasonable to consider mainland China a bit of a disease factory because of cultural and social factors: dietary habits bringing regular people into contact with livestock on a more regular basis than in the west, hundreds of hyper-dense population centers, and poor sewerage systems in many parts of the…

Although bear in mind that 90% of ‘flu deaths are people aged 65 and up. It’s dangerous, but much less dangerous to younger adults. 

Why would it need to be carrying cargo?

Having a single kid is probably a reasonable compromise.

There’s a lot of flag-burners who have got too much freedom
I want to make it legal for policemen to beat them

Unfortunately you have to provide your own music.

> Many of the first victims had visited a local food market—since shut down—that frequently hosted all sorts of live animals.

What a fuckin’ shock.
The mainland Chinese have become a global liability because of their cultural penchant for buying live animals to eat, because their sewerage systems are often poor and…

This is the thing that always seems weird to me: most of the coverage of Trump is about him being crass or egotistical or corrupt or whatever, and he IS all those things, but more than anything else, he is PLAIN DUMB. He is a deeply unintelligent, ignorant man, too stupid to understand that he’s stupid.

I once walked out of an interview with Bloomberg in New York. Two rude 23 year olds snickering because I didn’t have instant command of a subject area I hadn’t used in my work for several years. Also hadn’t slept well, and I just snapped and thought, “Fuck this”. I wasn’t actively rude back, though; just said, “Okay,…

Being a child of the VHS generation, I would imagine I’ve watched the original Star Wars trilogy somewhere close to fifty times, and there are dozens of movies from that era I’ve seen at least twenty: The Terminator, Alien, Blade Runner, The Breakfast Club, Aliens, Star Trek II, The Thing, Working Girl, Highlander,…

> But otherwise?
This omits one thing: she’s the only one with the diligence to grind out a (partial) translation of the beacon message (deducing that it’s a warning rather than an SOS). This also serves as the first stage of the antagonistic relationship that will develop between her and Ash.

For me the stand-out thing about Ripley was that she was the most rational crew-member in terms of her decision-making: cautious, prudent, suspicious. And, yes, she gets scared, but (unlike Lambert in Alien and Hudson in Aliens) she never allows the fear to master her and interfere with her decision-making. That’s…

I suspect they might have been better off going the MCU route from the outset (from 2015 onwards) - making a set of seemingly stand-alone tales that begin to intertwine into something bigger. But everyone was locked into the more obvious (but misguided) route of making another trilogy so that we would end up with an…

Yes, toodle-pip. Hope you get that keyboard fixed.

You seem jolly angry!

You certainly COULD tell stories about outer rim pirates and fringe groups. However, could you tell stories about them that required a TRILOGY? My contention is that this was the key mis-step. 

It’s perfectly possible to put characters and worlds back into jeopardy. You just shouldn’t do it in a way that retrospectively cheapens previous adventures, achievements, sacrifices etc, which is what the ST did, on numerous fronts.