So what is the answer? Burn the negative and wipe the hard drives? Shelve the film until Spacey dies?

I’ve seen the De Niro and Dreyfuss projects, and neither paint Madoff in any good light. What they do explore is the result of the scam on Madoff’s family, and their total ruin.

I’m intrigued by a showing of “I Tonya” at Rikers Island. Were there learned’ critiques of Tonya’s plot by pro extortionists? Was it like a group of skilled golfers watching a movie about Tiger Woods?  

The bad guys put up the Cross on Good Friday.

If the white literati banish Diaz to the outer darkness, will the brown literati defend him?

Does Diaz’s status as a Hispanic give him cover?

We’ll see the thieves in stripes soon!

Gone with the Woodwind

Of course there are all kinds of ways to latch this data to other trends. For example, is there a correlation between the observed decline of religious sentiment among young people and the reported increase in depression and suicidal ideation?

Oh, don’t worry. The lawsuits will come as surely might follows day.

Another place not to put engines is right above the wing. The plane pictured here is the Dornier DO-X, in 1930 the worlds largest aircraft. Designed to carry 75 passengers from Germany to America, it was too underpowered, even with 12 motors. Another problem is that the top of the wing is where the lift is, and you…

Does anybody else here think that accusing a man who builds rocket ships of being anti-science is doubleplus ridiculous?

Btw, when do we begin to see the angry tweets about Trump’s pardoning Jack Johnson?

So which airline were you and the tall guys flying on?

Forget the neighbors, the couple dragged the victim to a London police station two weeks before drowning her! Are the cops being investigated?

So perhaps the real question is : did the Volvo system detect the woman but the supposedly more sophisticated Uber system didn’t? If that is so, why? Whether either system could have saved her is the srcond question.

Is it institutional loyalty or loyalty to keeping a good job?

Are we going to see a repeat of the McCarthy era practice of script or joke writers running under pseudonyms to bypass the blacklist? Is that even possible in the time of Rotten Tomato or IMDB? 

I caught some badminton Olympic Games on tv during the London and Rio games and was fascinated. I’m used to a sedate game during picnics, but at this level it was amazingly cutthroat. I also caught some Korea vs Japan matches that added several centuries of bad juju to the excitement.

One modern American farmer feeds as many as 50 farmers could a century ago. We are going to need an adjusted model of population dynamics, but we have some time.