The Arrival was offensive to human intelligence, and is one of the worst movies made in the last 5 years. I can’t think of a single thing about it that I enjoyed, honestly. Normally I would be fine with that, and we could all move on, but the fact that it’s probably going to get nominated for a bunch of Oscars is…

This rubric can be applied to basically everything in life.

This is how it works at Heathrow. It is not faster. The only way to make security faster is to eliminate all of the steps that require people to open their bags, take things out, remove items of clothing, stand with their arms over their head, turn to the left and cough.

True story: when I was on a road trip last summer going through British Columbia I stopped at a log-house building company along the highway to take some photos and ended up meeting the foreman who gave me a tour of the yard. While we were talking he mentioned they had just finished building a massive house for Wayne…

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