If only the young lady had been riding the bike out of her mother’s vagina they may have been concerned for her life.

Flip the names of victim and driver and see what changes.

The girl’s name was Obianuju Osuegbu, there wasn’t “some wild mental gymnastics” to blame her there was just some plain old ingrained racism. Would happily wager my life savings that if it was a white cheerleader that got killed than the driver would be facing vehicular manslaughter.

“It took some wild mental gymnastics — including just making shit up — for the police could find a way to blame a kid killed by such a driver, but they got there.”

Yeah it’s not.  I won’t go into spoiler country but having Paul bring rain to Arrakis with his “super powers” really goes against what the story the book was trying to tell. 

Hey, I already through Kanye was a dipshit who deserved no attention way before he went nuts.

CHOAM and the Landsraad: The stock market and Congress, respectively; both are made up almost entirely of heads of the Great Houses, who use them both as proxies for their long-standing fights.

Goddammit, I hate Kinja. Trying to follow a simple discussion where people discuss three different books is fucking impossible.

In the comments on the last Dune article, people pointed out that the Harkonnens in the book are basically Trumps in Space, the only major difference being that the Baron is actually a very shrewd, calculating character.

I’ve seen it, but since you haven’t I don’t dare to spoil it too much. But rest assured, it’s made clear that the Harkonnen and Atreides are rival noble houses in a greater empire, both subject to the same Emperor, not forces of fundamental good and evil in conflict. The Atreides are portrayed as the unquestionable…

I’ve actually read it before (once), but like you, I had a number of failed attempts first. I’m re-reading it now, just passed page 100.

Ah, yes.  The Death Star of David.

Exactly. Go figure that directors with something unique to say don’t really care for copy-n-paste, empty (albeit entertaining) spectacles at which the industry can’t seem to stop throwing all the money and schedule blocks they have available.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Sting

Yeah, they shouldn’t be pale but orange. And with tiny, tiny hands. And a weird shaped dick, if that’s ever shown.

Yep think less BDSM Nazi and more Trump

The Emperor gives stewardship of the dessert planet Arrakis to Duke Leto, home to the colonized Fremen and the only place to mine Spice, the most valuable substance in the universe—a choice that enrages rival House Harkonnen.

“vampire pallor and assorted head wrinkles and bumps”

a “too much money, too little taste” sort of aesthetic.

No, “Doon” was the “dessert planet” in a lame National Lampoon book parody whose only funny part was the glossary. “Dune” is a “desert planet”.