Yeah, that was a wonderful moment and the last time until 2018 that I would feel anything other than existential dread on an Election Night.

Yeah, I noticed that resemblance too.  

“On days like today, sometimes, I wish I was a day-drinker.”

There’s never been a better time to start!

“Ivanka Trump, who is what you’d get if Veruca Salt’s dad just bought Willy Wonka’s factory for her at the end,”

Goddamn, I like that. 

You are making an absolute fool of yourself there, man.  It’s really weird - you could have chosen to look it up to see, but you didn’t, and then you compounded the error by confusing civil and criminal law.  What are you doing?  

You actually very well could, since that fits right into the definition of the intentional tort of assault in the scenario you describe. Bad luck to have asked a lawyer that question.

I don’t totally disagree, but Franken got himself “jokingly” groping an unconscious woman.  I loved the guy (and think that otherwise he probably would have been a very credible candidate this year), but that was devastating.  I was extremely pissed at him for doing something so awful and stupid.

77, by the way.

“It’s not like people just went around hugging strangers and smelling their hair until just recently.”

Possibly the worst time in the past 100 years to deny a recent change in peoples’ willingness to hug strangers. 

Ha, that’s exactly Tinkerbell, you’re right!

This reminds me of an offhand remark in a review for something I read recently (can’t remember what) that mentioned a stage play in Chicago where it was Peter Pan, but for the Tinkerbell part, she stayed dead no matter how loud and long the audience clapped.  One of the…

A thought best left unfinished.

He’s mopped the floor with arrogant aviators 52 times, in simulation.

I don’t agree that it makes the film less jingoistic - it allows the focus to be entirely on HOW FUCKING AWESOME THE USA AND ITS BRAVE TROOPS ARE rather than making any thought about the consequences might be. I think it helps make it more jingoistic.

They travel all the fuck over downtown Chicago and parts outlying over the course of a single school day, including a decent amount of driving and going to a Cubs game. Traffic being what it is now, I don’t think so.

I remember liking it as a kid, but haven’t seen it since (I’m in my 40s now), so who knows. I do remember the thing with the little drums was always kind of funny, in that it took that illustration for Daniel-san to think “oh! Maybe I should punch and then block and then punch again!”

That’s true of a lot of scenes from movies of that era, though - pacing was just totally different in a lot of ways.  

A 1984 Saab weighed 7500 pounds?  Jesus.

For instance, like the shithead who responded to me but got himself dismissed.

These were absolutely golden.

For which country, though.

For which country, though.