Derp, Amazon says there’s an Audible audiobook and a CD.  I am an oaf.

Also, is there an excerpt online that a person could conveniently link to? Like if I were at a site where people were discussing good books to read, and I wanted to recommend WDKYMYB, it’d be handy to link to a three- or four-paragraph section.

I got my two copies. Queen King Beauregard wants to know if there’s going to be a Books On Tape version, to give to her mom.

Is the Chicago criminal justice system notorious for a forgiving stance on high-profile cases, or doing their damnedest to finish what they started?  I see them as more the latter.

If they dropped the charges, it must be because the Chicago PD fucked something up in a way that’s shocking even by Chicago PD standards. Either Jussie is 100% innocent and the Chicago PD doesn’t want to deal with how they dragged his name through the mud, or Jussie is guilty but the Chicago PD massacred an entire…

I’m ... glad that Jussie was actually attacked by racist assholes? Is that where I’m landing on this?

Here is a possibility: they didn’t have a good resolution in mind on Agent Liberty, so they more or less played out his arc by getting Ben Lockwood appointed to a government office and now he’s going to be an occasional antagonist. Perhaps they didn’t know how to wrap up Agent Liberty and his bigoted droogs any better…

THAT WASN’T AN AUTHENTIC KASNIAN ACCENT GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER TV SHOW

For me this is complicated territory. If you want to be worthy of anyone’s love — including your own — you also need to put in the work to be a worthwhile person. That means that loving one’s self is functionally inseparable from holding one’s self to some standards, and not just those very convenient standards that…

I have a skeptical streak about therapy as well; I had a childhood of watching my mother go to therapy and I got the distinct impression that she was mostly using the therapy to justify why she was as she was, but not actually work to improve herself.

I pre-ordered my two copies ages ago and am looking forward to them.

Yeah, first time Queen King Beauregard sent me off to the store with a shopping list, I couldn’t find half of what she was asking for. “Oh, so ‘ABC Soup’ means ‘Campbell’s Vegetarian Vegetable Soup’. I’ll remember that for next time.”

I have seen no evidence that younger people are fundamentally better than the old. It’s just that the young haven’t yet had the opportunity to abuse power ... yet.

I think the second time Manchester Black showed up in the comics, it was a complicated scheme where he was trying to get Superman to give in to his evil impulses. (Spoilers, he failed and committed suicide.) So I imagine that’s what the show has been trying to do with Manchester Black: the one goal he’s got left is…

“is just good judgment on her part”

Caucuses can’t be fixed, they can only be eliminated in favor of primaries.  Which Bernie is not willing to do.

Personally I don’t respect any union that is adopted only on the basis of a card check. Card checks require people to publicly affirm that they want the union, and I don’t trust any decision where people don’t have the opportunity to cast a secret ballot. This is still America and that means secret ballots.

Whoa, I got opinions here. First of all, Mar-Vell was pretty cool after Jim Starlin got ahold of him, gave him cosmic awareness, had him stop Thanos on his first outing, and made him a man motivated by peace who used violence only reluctantly. Not sure he was ever a Superman analog, though; if anything, they were…

Yeah, I really liked what Gerard Jones did with the “Wonder Man” title, until editorial made him screw with Simon’s powers to make him more 90s 3dgy. Damn nega-bomb.

I read “Thor Corps” and “Galactic Storm” when they came out. I don’t remember them real well but I was an enthusiastic Marvel zombie in the early 90s. Also I miss Mark Gruenwald.