Yeah, the more I’ve thought about it, the more I think that Johnston had a list of things he HAD to cover: Snoke’s death, Kylo’s fall, Rey’s parents (which as I stated below, I LOVED), Luke’s ascension (I wouldn’t call it a death)... And I think any of those would have been a good solid ending. But all of them shoved…

I’m not making a backhanded slap, because he is a good actor, but I think this is Hamill’s best performance. He’s funny, he’s tragic, he gets to whine a little bit (when Yoda shows up, Empire-era Luke makes a serious reappearance). It’s really good.

I hope Kylo’s reveal to Rey about her parents is true. For fucking ONCE this series could use someone that isn’t tied to everyone else...

These corporations were never in it to “build gymnastics.” They paid money to be associated with the success of the program. Now the program is associated with sexual abuse. And the people at the top are responsible for turning a blind eye, and only after the money cuts off will there be any repercussions. I mean, has…

Jefferson’s entire problem with weed boils down to a boyhood association that “Negroes smoke marijuana cigarettes.” Demonizing weed is simply the most publicly acceptable presentation of his racism.

Really no surprise; it is below line of site and people like to cut turns often times because they have their second hand occupied with a phone or food.

I pretty much lost interest in pro football this year. I no longer set my Sundays (or Monday nights or Thursday nights) by it. It’s too much - oversaturation of games, the laughable system of fines/punishments which seem to be made up on the fly, and the hypocrisy of the owners/commissioner talking about player safety…

It’s like saying “we need to examine this puddle more closely to see how deep it is”

Yeah, this is my favorite topic for doomsaying. Thanks to GOP fuckery, they’ve bum rushed all the dregs down to the bottom of the Federalist Society barrel into the judiciary. Even if we pull our own fuckery in 2018 and impeach Trump and Pence to put a Democrat in office (assuming we retake the House), we’ve still…

Largest in terms of manpower sometimes just means the human lives are cheap. When the human lives aren’t worth much to you and you don’t have much money to spend, you don’t spend it building quality jeeps.

I’m sorry, but you guys sound as stupid as the birthers. Don’t get me wrong, Donald Trump is a shit head, but that dossier is clearly garbage.

Both if my folks are veterans. Served in the Air Force in the 80s. To them, and the attitude of most people they knew then, it was just a job that where you happen to wear a uniform. But now my regional grocery chain has “hero parking” for troops and emergency responders. Home Depot has purple heart parking.

I would happily pay more taxes so that veterans receive the mental and physical care they need after they return, because I am done having to fawn over every single veteran like they are George Washington. We went from spitting on soldiers who were drafted in Vietnam, which was disgusting, to fawning over every…

My wife and I acted as the sponsor family for a beautiful, intelligent Honduran woman when she went to college in the local area (my wife worked there at the time; I would later work there for a few years as well). She was attending on an international student visa. We didn’t have to do much for her other than provide…

They find isolated instances where “Mr or Mrs. Smith of Bumblefuck, Arkansas was able to foil a gas station robbery with their .357 Magnum” as justification why it’s ok thousands die annually in mass shootings so that the local Speedway wasn’t out 200 bucks.

There have been attempted studies on “defensive gun usage”. Most of them promoted by gun lobby groups or far-right think tanks and use questionable methodology and seek to prove a pre-determined point.

This “good guy with a gun” narrative is so thoroughly disproven it’s essentially pointless to contradict them. It’s a cultish devotion to narrative. It’s purely emotional. Police, first responders, even former military consistently talk about how much random civilians with guns can complicate the situation or even…

No point in trying to reason with these people. They don’t understand the element of surprise will always be with the shooter.

From experience of bidders not paying me - eBay sends them to their room for a half hour to think about what they’ve done. They then use the time to bid on more shit they don’t intend to buy.