We just came up with a reboot trilogy with better legs than a lot of what Hollywood has churned out of late.

You just wrote the reboot of “9 to 5.”

He clearly didn’t do his due diligence before calling her, she’s about as left of center as one can get.

When they rolled it out I saw a comment online where the commentator called it the “Republican Insurance Plan” which of course becomes “RIP.”

I am generally with you, there isn’t enough scorn directed at the companies that make bad decisions that enable their demise. Several years ago I did a part time gig on weekends at J.C. Penney to make some needed money and they were making foul decisions left and right - I also expect that when K-Mart and Sears fold…

Don’t forget the drugs. I agree, you get glimpses of someone who has some sort of compass operating but some of his behavior (particularly regarding his daughter) is awful. I suspect he had, much like celebs today, enablers who benefited from their association with him. And the drugs. I loved the Gong Show as a kid…

Nancy Isenberg’s “White Trash” has a great chapter on Jackson.

The book is pretty good. It reads with more conviction when he is writing about the tv industry than the spy industry and you know, the whole thing is under a haze of “he made this up” due to the allegations of being a spy.

I’m a peacenik who has read a ton of Cold War history. Once this starts it doesn’t end well. And the government plans for what to do ‘’after’’ are essentially theater. No one wins, everyone loses.

Just a reminder that sports builds character.

Should be “Trump winery exploits vulnerable foreign workers instead of paying a decent wage for their jobs.”

Mr Gore, tear. down. this. wall.

Perhaps the Weimarican branch of a newly reborn White Rose group.

And they want it to look nice from the US side.

I lost a relative to heroin since this movie came out so watching it is a bit of a different experience for me but yeah, Kelly MacDonald....

You just described a lot of how labor operates, especially in the US south.

Part of what is interesting about this is it casts the problem in a black and white manner...you give someone access to dope and they’re done for. But if you give them another option not so much.

The rat experiment generally involves narcotics and there is a wrinkle to it. If you give the rat a choose between dope and nothing else he dopes himself senseless. If you give the rat a choice between dope and doing something else the rat will often do something else.

Thanks for your thoughtful & eloquent essay. I, as a father of a son with ASD, share your concerns.

Maybe it’ll be mostly the sane folks left to pick up the pieces and rebuild.