Agreed. My tuppence: cyberpunk retains its power because it still resonates with the audience. Consider a phrase from one of the other quintessential cyberpunk sources, “Twenty minutes into the future...” Cyberpunk has always been trying to WARN us about what’s going to happen if we don’t stop it. And unless and until…

Hmmm... Maybe, maybe. It would make sense, but for it to truly take on the status of ‘sidekick’, it would have to be some kind of one-of-a-kind, artificial intelligence. Maybe one that collates leads and tips from online sources.
Oooh, better yet, have the phone itself be her ‘sword’, maybe a military or…

I would submit that Zorra would be fighting against a rather wider array of ‘villain groups’ in the 21st Century. Off the top of my head, we have “international banks” (evicting struggling renters in favor of renting to wealthier people), “government officials” (from local aldermen all the way up to the county-level;…

*sigh*
No offense to any artist trying to make a buck (or spread some holiday cheer) with a ‘new Christmas song’. But I really, really wish that we could get some genuinely FUNNY Christmas songs.
Where is this generation’s Allan Sherman “12 Gifts Of Christmas”?
(“A statue of a naked woman with a clock... where her…

Oh, to be sure. It’s getting more and more difficult for them to convince the next generations that the “Noble Lost Cause” narrative has any validity.
But not yet “impossible”. We still see young Republicans entering political office despite having police records of domestic violence and hate-speech. We still see…

Remember: there are a LOT of people with real power and wealth who consider the Confederacy a “Noble Lost Cause”. And as long as those kinds of people have anything to say about it, these statues will not go away quickly.

That’s “Yankee” thinking. Down in the former Confederacy, they tell a slightly different story. Look up the “Daughters of the Confederacy” and their very powerful campaign to support the “Noble Lost Cause” narrative. And Lincoln had a well-constructed plan to utterly smash the cultural bastions that supported racism,…

It’s down to ‘numbers’. Specifically, 51 Republican senators, with the leashes around their necks held firmly by Moscow Mitch McConnell. He’ll be good-GOD-DAMNED if he’ll allow any threat to the Republicans’ power go unchallenged, and impeaching the lame-duck POTUS falls under that category. Even assuming that the…

Speaking as a guy also old enough to remember those “afterschool specials”, I’d say that Big Mouth absolutely could not have been shown back then. It raises altogether too many ‘hot-button’ issues. Not just “physical development”, but cultural ones, too. The very idea of characters on any t.v. show (let alone an…

Personally, I prefer to think that he’s taking aim at the “anti-maskers” and “COVID-deniers” who literally will kill their families and themselves before admitting that the pandemic is, in fact, real and NOT a Democrat hoax to steal the election from the Redcap In Chief.
Generations of sociologists are going to study…

Because a LOT of places have, sensibly, put up signs that not only explain THAT masks must be worn to enter, but HOW. Which is to say, they must cover the lower half of the face. And, as those who wear glasses can attest, ‘standard’ mask-wearing often leads to fogging them up. But for the rest, they simply reject the…

Oh, how well I know that feeling... But unfortunately, acquiring my ‘libations’ of choice is both challenging and expensive, these days...
Ah, well, we all must make do with what we can find...

Yeah, pretty much. I’m very relieved that I’ve only had to have but one direct (via Fb) conversation with an idiot who refused to acknowledge the seriousness of the problem, justifying his refusal by pointing his own ‘excellent health and wellness practices’ and the fact that ‘no one I know with a covid diagnosis got…

Exactly. We’re seeing examples of solipsism that I normally expect to get socialized out of people by the time they turn... 3? Or 4 at the latest?
But no, the Man-Child In Chief sets the example and everyone who supports him follows it...
*mournfully attempting to drown my depression in whatever’s closest to hand*
*box-wi…

Strictly speaking, yes, they are scared at the threats to their self-image that wearing masks entails. For some, their toxic masculinity means that they cannot allow themselves to look ‘weak’ or ‘stupid’... by their OWN definitions of the terms, rather than those of everyone around them. For others, they see that…

I just look forward to seeing the endless variations of all his “greatest hits” among his public appearances set to the music of the one song he probably hates more than any other in American history...

“Point of order, sir. You are the ‘acting’ President of the United States, until the inauguration. Though some would extend the duration of that title, retroactively to early 2017...”

King Yemma probably wouldn’t let the Redcap In Chief see the ‘business side’ of his desk...
(For those who aren’t familiar with the “Dragonball” universe, King Yemma’s desk is approximately 15-18 feet tall...)

Grammar check: the world _has been_ laughing at this greasy excuse for a human being, let alone a leader, from the moment he announced his candidacy. The only time anyone stops laughing is to either gasp in shock at the latest atrocity or to briefly cry for those he has injured or killed through his sheer callousness…

Well, if you can persuade even one police department in the U.S. to give up their ‘modern’ restraints and start using hojojutsu, this kind of idiocy would fall by the wayside in that jurisdiction.