There’s nothing about the film that wouldn’t work just as well with, say, McClane’s wife’s company celebrating a merger or acquisition. We would have lost the “ho ho ho” gag, but a different gag could have been put in its place.

Welllll, once in a while we get lucky and they do Christmas themes pretty well.

That ... I ... but ... holy crap, that makes WAY too much sense.

That movie is drenched in copaganda, and most of it revolves around how Bruce Willis (Any Ordinary Cop, Alone Against The Forces Of Evil) is the only person who doesn’t have his head up his ass. Those white collar types have no idea what’s going on outside the world of finance; the FBI is fooled by absurd demands;…

In honor of Rush Limbaugh’s passing and this article, I composed a riddle:

“he heard some gunshots fired near his home”

In “my” era of Marvel Comics, the Scarlet Witch and the Vision are married, and they have two kids. I’m still kind of mad that Marvel undid all that. More good things have been destroyed by bad writers who felt the biggest way to make a splash was to break things.

Everything they know about science, they learned from Bronze-Age “Flash” comics.

I really wish I knew what this season wanted to say, because man, that first episode was gripping and promising. I feel like it sort of devolved into, “keep filming until most of the characters are dead”. This is not to say that there weren’t a lot of good scenes, events, and character moments in it! But I feel like…

Season 3 was great. Yeah it took about half a season for the ingredients to start cooking together, but it was worth the wait.

Ethelrida is by far the most compelling character in this, and I wish we’d had more of her. Second most compelling character would be Satchel “Mike Milligan” Cannon, followed by the other Milligan. Loy’s good, Josto’s good, the nurse is wacky, the rest I don’t care much about.

I have a “real” explanation for those UFOs by the way. Now, we know that the story of the Sioux Falls Massacre is based on eyewitness accounts as recorded in that book, right? Okay, so what would Kirsten Dunst’s eyewitness accounts sound like? “Oh my gosh, and then there was this bright light in the sky, and it came…

Personally I see no way to find common ground with Nazis — and before someone says “well it’s not fair to call them Nazis, after all they didn’t do a Holocaust”, the main reason they didn’t is that (barely) enough of us resisted Trump every step of the way. Meanwhile, Trump did put brown children in cages and his fans…

I think Kanye was on to something when he said that his MAGA hat made him feel like Superman. Just guessing, but: wearing that MAGA hat, for the first time, he could walk down the street without having to worry about racist white people just itching for an excuse to start trouble with him. For the time, he wasn’t…

About breakfasting, the thing I wish I’d learned decades ago was how easy it is to make sausage. Sausage has to be my favorite food, but the stuff you get from the store is 1) expensive, 2) of low nutritional quality, and 3) of varying flavor. By making your own sausage with lean ground pork (1/3 lb is 250 calories…

My mom was in the habit of getting Veg-All or lima beans or the like, and I’m reasonably certain that she had a passive-aggressive streak where she was giving us foods that, while nutritious*, were needlessly unpleasant. The woman wasn’t stupid, she knew that, when she picked up that can of lima beans, she was…

This may be the best episode since sometime back in season 3. I’m not given to nitpicking and sniping about “this show’s been garbage since forever, maaaan”, so I don’t mean it like that. But I feel the show’s strongest episodes were in seasons 2 and 3, and this episode holds up against any of them.

I saw a Portuguese version with the original English voices, so all the on-screen text was in Portuguese but no subtitles were generally required. At the end, I was wondering why she had a button for “Puber Dade”: who is Puber Dade? Then they showed a boy she was crushing on (presumably Puber Dade himself) and it made…

Thanks Panama! I’m filing this away for future use.

Meanwhile, the research is looking promising that Vitamin D, of all things, is one of your strongest bets against COVID: people who are Vitamin D deficient seem to be extra susceptible. Here is an article talking about some of the research: