I didn’t make the Lost Boys connection! Now I’m picturing Crazy Buff Sax Player encountering his equally crazy and buff doppelganger...

I got a lot out of it in terms of underlying meaning, but not while I was watching it. I enjoyed it then as a great suspense flick with really good characterization (we care so much more about what happens to the central family because they seem like real people - amazing how many filmmakers overlook that part!).

I was infuriated by Sarah Palin’s accusations about the liberals wanting to pay for “death panels.” No such thing. The proposal would have paid for Medicare recipients to - if they so chose - have a free consultation with their doctors to discuss end-of-life care: what the options are, what the interventions entail,…

I find myself wondering what the Conway marriage is like. Sure, married people can have political differences and get along just fine, but...George Conway is repeatedly insisting that Trump (who Kellyanne doesn’t just work for, but actively supports and advocates for) is insane and unfit, and Trump is repeatedly snipin…

I also had a difficult birth. It was more than a year before I could talk about it without trembling. Back then, mothers didn’t talk about these feelings, much less consider getting therapy to work through them. And there was no talk about PPD, except an occasional mention of mild “baby blues” that you might have for…

“John Cock...to...sten.”

Enh, I got a degree in English Lit from a fancy college and was never required to read it. We read “Our Mutual Friend” and “Bleak House” but never “A Tale of Two Cities.” I expect it all depends on your professors and which of the classics they prefer to teach.

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. Really, everybody’s saying that. The best people.”

Clinton’s contemptuous use of “that woman” still boils my blood when I hear it today.

I think the culture is partly attributable to the dangers, actually. Just like some families have generations of firefighters. There’s a bond forged in that danger. There’s a pride in saying “I’m tough enough to do this work, like my dad and his dad before him.” In the show “Justified,” despite being on opposite sides…

I live in Appalachian coal country. Even though it’s punishing, dangerous work, a whole culture has grown up here around mining - around families who have been miners for generations and are proud of doing that work and carrying on that tradition. When they hear “coal isn’t practical anymore, your jobs aren’t coming…

“The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters” is excellent as well. It’s just a huge compendium of their letters to one another over the course of their lives. Not only were their lives fascinating, but the letters provide perspective on British society and world history through pretty much all of the twentieth century…

I’ve always had terrible handwriting. Last year I started learning Spencerian penmanship, the flowing cursive that was taught in American schools in the late 1800s (I ordered some workbooks off Amazon). Practicing the letters and spacing is very meditative, and while my handwriting isn’t perfect now, it’s actually…

I think Trump is probably one of those people who’s totally racist but thinks he’s not because he employs a few African Americans, some of whom will back him by saying “I’ve worked with him for years and it’s been great, he’s not a racist.” But to guys like Trump, as long as someone is obeisant to him, that person is…

Yeah, Jeffs’ crimes were many and they were heinous. Tucker seems to be saying here “We don’t really know anything” when what he means is “I can’t be bothered to find out anything.”

I wonder about the vaccine he received at the hospital. Did the hospital just do it, or did the parents OK that one? If so, why would they OK that one and not the earlier and follow-up doses? I mean, seems like such a vaccination wouldn’t help fight an already full-blown case of tetanus (or would it?), so its only…

Does the film have distribution yet? It sounds interesting and moving--I would like to see it.

Sociopaths gonna sociopath...

Yes. And many women undergo serious physical risks when they are pregnant, risks that can be fatal (preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc.). (The risks associated with abortion are far fewer than the risks of carrying a pregnancy to term.) And for many women, even if they have normal pregnancies/births, there can be…

In theory, yes, and that’s what other presidents have done. In Trump World? If there’s any way he can get his hands on ‘em, he will.