She needs to listen to some Lyle Lovett:

Leave it to a guy who makes a miserable excuse for a US Congressman to try and identify who would make a good Congressional Intern. Given that Internships often lead to careers in politics, this would surely be a death knell for Democracy.

I guarantee they asked “What Batman villain could Schwarzenegger play?”, not “Who would make a good Batman villain?” The movie started with it’s cast, not its purpose.

“30 ‘Beloved’ Movie Classics That Don’t Hold Up, According to a Very Few Lifehacker Readers Whom We Didn’t Edit”

Following “the wisdom of crowds” assumes that crowds have wisdom to dispense. Anyone who has ever examined the concept knows that these systems measure opinions, not wisdom. And that social media has proven that opinions are worth much less than a dime a dozen, and far less than eyeballs.

It’s not just the required familiarity with the old horror films (both Universal and Hammer), it’s that Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles were so stunningly irreverent when compared to all the other film comedies that were available at the time. Even the Exorcist is a scary movie, it’s pretty tame by today’s…

Alita was beautiful work. Yes, most viewers were slightly unnerved by the big eyes - but the whole point of the film was that even Alita herself wasn’t certain she was a real person. If you want creepy big eyes, watch the midwife/doctor in the opening of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. Her eye sockets don’t quite match the…

I was the fourth of four kids. My mother had rejoined the workforce as soon as I got into kindergarten, while my father had always worked long hours. But whenever he got home, he would set me on his lap and read to me. Once I was grown, my parents would laugh about how, whenever he did this, he was actually reading the…

“My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” The only political podcast I’ve been able to listen to for past five years. He manages to remains impartial, yet constantly proves that there is almost no political event in the news today that has never happened before.

Two details your article left out:

It’s not hard to build a cap like this using rigid insulation and PVC.

Speculation is that he allowed his dues to run out so that nobody will bother to have him disbarred.

Yes, but you. never forget that Sonnenfeld was a cinematographer (and one of the best of them). He sent his entire career crafting the mix of lighting and film. There are just as many ways lighting and digital cameras can be used effectively, but there aren’t many true craftsman who have mastered those skills yet…

Tires like that would be utterly destroyed by the potholes down here. Want to buy rims twice a year, forever?

They do plant scores of little oak trees all over my goddam yard, though.

I had a neighbor who wanted to know how many squirrels he had raiding his backyard, so he bought a paint gun. The neighborhood was baffled by the sudden appearance of brightly colored squirrels for months.

A few years ago, I was walking my dog when I passed a squirrel, running down the middle of the street, carrying one of those six inch American Flags. On the way home, he passed me with another one, so I followed him. There were about a dozen of the flags sticking out of his nest. One of my neighbors had decorated their…

Oh, he knows the majority of the country hates him. As long as he can maintain his own little fiefdom down there, he’s OK.

Oh, he HAD criminal intent, just not for the specific crime he wound up executing.

Removed.