I’m sure Kissinger was also involved in it, somehow. Throw him in there and you have an awful people stew going.

Leave it to the “populists” to send things into a tailspin. Yeah after Wallace sort of “revealed” who Nixon could court that’s when he started calling on all the, as you put it, genteel white nationalists to vote. Was it him who coined the term “silent majority”?

I would say that the last third party candidate who really made a splash in our current system was Theodore Roosevelt. And yeah, by design all of our political branches are designed to function in a slow, rather counterproductive manner in order to “prevent mob rule” or preserve status quo, whatever you think Madison…

i love a good, spicy blanco. there are some incredibly good and drinkable bottles under $25. Camarena, Espolon, Corazon all come to mind

“Working harder will not get you paid any more”

The basic rules of working for a cheap boss are:
- Working harder will not get you paid any more
- If you do something once, it becomes part of your job description forever
- If you work too hard, they’ll fire someone else and give you their responsibilities too, without increasing your pay.

Making an effort is a sucker’s…

I went to a bar called The Mermaid for Futurama trivia and our team name “Fish Part On Top, Lady Part On Bottom” won us a round of shots.

This really does happen, at least amongst some coral and (probably) without the frenzied erotic dancing.

Wrong wrong wrong. Everybody knows that mermen writhe around the mermaids in a frenzied erotic dance, much like the grunion, until they eject massive quantities of roe and sperm into the water which intermix and fertilize, external of any merbodies. The mermen then return to the briny depths not to be seen again until…

I don’t think there is any one definitive best album or best place to start. His work is more varied than you might expect, so at some level it depends on which strand best suits your tastes.

I think the live album “Live Seeds” gives you a decent window into the first chunk of his career. If I had to pick three studio…

So I appreciate how this is going to sound, but I’d actually suggest starting with The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds compilation. It’s from 1998 (Jesus, I’m old) so it doesn’t cover the last few (21!) years, but it’s it’s a great selection and it’s actually sequenced in a way that flows wonderfully as an instead…

Like a lot of music, I think it depends on how old you were and what you were doing when you found him. For me, that was 1992, freshman year of college, and “Henry’s Dream,” which remains one of my favorite records of all time and a really great example of what he does so well - astounding composition and lyrics that…

Like when Moranis found out who Stiller’s parents were, I’m sure he had nothing to ask or say on the subject... Nice as both men are IRL I’m sure. True, it’s a decent anecdote anyway.

That’s the exact one I thought of too. Maybe he was left off the list since he had a handful of minor roles in movies and TV before becoming a carpenter to make ends meet.

Yeah, sorry, Stiller and Williams don’t count. They weren’t “discovered” or "got their start" behind the screen, they had famous parents who pulled strings to secure them temporary employment before moving on to acting.

I was a PA for about a year, mostly on commercials and music videos. That is a hard job. Not in the normal sense, because anyone can do it.

Don’t forget Harrison Ford! Carpenter on set.