Ooh, I'll complain about Irish politics with you. I mean, I'm just an American living in Ireland, but I do a other of work around Healthcare, so I'm still feeling pretty complain-y at the moment. Your PR voting system is pretty nice, though.

Lots of animals have weird weaknesses. Horses can die of an upset stomach, and they managed before modern vets. You just have to breed faster than you die.

It's nlce to know some things don't change, I guess? I can rely on gravity, the passage of time, and the utter stupidity of Chopra.

HuffPo used to (and maybe still does, for all I know) publish Deepak Chopra pretty regularly, along with a lot of other nonsense so I'm not sure where they get off talking about facts and truth in the first place.

The Two Towers is a tough read at the end. So much Frodo and Sam. And so much complaining. We get it, Frodo, your soul is being destroyed by the evil of the ring, you don't need to keep going on about it. This is why everyone hates Frodo.

I already find the Alexa creepy, so yeah. (Seriously, it's listening all the time. What is wrong with people that they want this thing in their house?)

I dislike Facebook more and more, but with most of my friends in another city (I moved recently) and my entire family in another country, it's acutally useful to be able to keep up with people. I think I maybe post on it twice a year, though, and I won't install the app or the messenger app. (I did briefly install the…

Listen, if we didn't run the country solely for the benefit of corporations and rich people, then…

Well, the first link, that looks like it should go to the article, is going to 538 instead, at least for me, which was pretty confusing.

Well, it's like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern weren't in the orginal play, they're characters from another, worse play with no relation to Hamlet, and no one can figure out why Stoppard decided to write them in. Also, presumably nobody dies. Except the other kids, of course,…

It can be the world's first recontextualizing-off.

Or, he could put a statue of the clown behind the girl. Now the girl is the monster, for defending a clown.

And, of course, the movie's insistence that the problem is Jimmy's terrible parents, when the real problem is that Jimmy makes bad decisions.

"What would LIberace do? Ah, better not do that"

I Accuse My Parents is in my favorite, completely-made-up-by-me genre: movies that are sending a completely different message than the filmaker intended. Between MST3K and Rifftrax, I have seen many of them.

Yeah, but considering the cut down verison still had two long boat chase sequences, I can't imagine we missed anything. Except maybe a third boatchase, with lots of swearing invovled.

"My God, he's a Journey fan!"

I always enjoyed the host segments, but I have a high tolerance for good natured cheesiness. My boyfriend hates them and asked why they even kept them in the new season, with no commercial breaks.

Oh yes, that. Young me was more upset by what happened to the Narnia-muslims, but the Susan thing also bothered me, as did the whole 'hooray we're dead' vibe.

I enjoyed Narnia right up until the Last battle, which went way to over the top on the Christian allegory, and kind of ruined the other books for me.