So, is “lobbying” just “advocacy” we disagree with?

He was joking in the interview. Brode knew full well about the card. They work about a year in advance on new expansions.

Diana Rigg, as always, was spectacular in this.

The movie is otherwise garbage, sorry.

The bare essential for a Bond movie is that it gets the action scenes right. But in the battle on the beach, there’s an utter disinterest in them. Bond will be fighting a thug on bare, flat, dry ground when suddenly, in the space of a…

“Also, once again, we would like to remind Mr. Spielberg that he doesn’t really have to make another Indiana Jones movie. He can just leave it at the three good ones.”

Two. Temple of Doom reaaaaaaaally does not hold up. There would justifiably be riots today if it was released for the first time as-is.

Someone’s buying Soylent.

This is some great coloring. It reminds me of The Maxx. With computer-aided art so available and ubiquitous these days, it’s great fun to see something that looks like colored pencils (?), especially in a throwback book.

Something something troubled something something mental health care.

Good riddance.

Those who skipped history class because their daddy is rich are doomed to repeat it.

Also, isn’t pee sterile? And wouldn’t a germaphone know that?

Yes, we ... nope, only got through one second. I’m working on it.

This might be the time I’ve noticed guitar in a Star Wars trailer.

I like it.

“They can eat it, and they can even cook or sell it. Just don’t call it soul food. Call it something else, like—I don’t know—spirit food. Yeah, there we go. Spirit food.”

It’s going to be super-confusing when discussing where to eat lunch.

I do a lot of public records at requests in my state. I cannot think of any agency, either at the local or state level, that would deny this request with a straight face.

In a weird way, that makes you the perfect audience for the show.

Three movies and five different Anthony Michael Halls pictured. Are they expecting him to buy most of these Blu-Rays?

Three movies and five different Anthony Michael Halls pictured. Are they expecting him to buy most of these Blu-Rays?

On the other, other hand, for every Jeff Bezos, there’s a Sheldon Adelson.

When a billionaire buys your local media outlet, don’t celebrate until you know which one it was.

Buffett owns newspapers, via BH Media Group. Recently, though, they’ve mostly been closing them and he has gotten very cynical about newspapers’ future. (The coverage doesn’t seem to make it clear whether he means the media organizations themselves or the actual media of news on paper, though.)

“Pfeiffer later walked that groveling remark back, shrugging his shoulders in another tweet about how of course it would be nice for ownership of local media companies to remain in local hands, but that’s just not how things are anymore.”

He’s not wrong, though. Most local newspapers seems to be in the hands of hedge…

His NoVa memoir, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, is worth reading (or listening to him read it as an audiobook), if you haven’t.

Thailand is comically beautiful. And sharks and coral reefs are awesome.