I saw “Aquaman” yesterday. I felt that Mera, Amber Heard’s character, was borrowing liberally from Disney’s Ariel in the “Little Mermaid” anime. It seemed to me that a theme of the film was Jason Momoa’s irreverence Vs. Atlanteans being very deliberate, wooden clichés. Thus the Nazis are drawn on as the ultimate…

One of the risks is that consumers who lose money on stocks might cut back on spending.  A certainty is that pensions are now even more underfunded. 

It’s like the story of Sampson and Delilah. Can the woman who actually cut Andrew’s hair be Delilah Becky, please?

I like the letters best from wypipo who are above all, addicted fans of Mr. Harriot’s writing, perhaps even reading Clapback, and have suffered some agonizing pain and injustice in their own lives, injustice that burns in them eternally, but yet is not the same as racism and discrimination a black person endures. And…

The ulterior motive might be that troops in the field have been effective human shields preventing Republicans in Congress from going along with lengthy government shutdowns. President Trump might be trying to remove that weakness.

Possibly the playground and scooters, don’t forget those, were used, because Jenn recognized she could not carry it off without street cred, other than as satire.  Thus, although Jenn is not Weird Al Yankovic, this cover is nevertheless in that vein.

I don’t think copyrighting dances is going to work, because although some combination of movements might be a recognizable signature of a performer, if you break it down even a little, other performers used the elements sixty, a hundred years ago, or more.  

From a Republican perspective, we had a different view almost forty years ago, as did Democrats.  Things have changed a lot, because the social contract offered to people residing in this country and to citizens of this country is vastly more expensive today, and is more costly than any immigrant with few skills can…

The story suggests the pub is in a separate room.  In UK, unaccompanied drinking age is eighteen, but sixteen or seventeen for beer and wine with an adult.

Lots of New Yorkers piss in bottles on and off the job already.  Amazon sells special funnels so women can too!

Of course it is just possible that as disastrous as the decision may be, Trump has decided to be the President who brings all these years of interminable war in the ME to a conclusion.  Trump, not Obama seems about to end the Bush era wars.  Think about how delicious and hard to erase that irony will in the history…

Which hysterical does Shatner mean:

In cases where they suspect drugs in the rectum, cops might be able to arrange to use the millimeter wave scanner at airport security, which would be able to identify contraband non-invasively. I guess they haven’t thought of it yet. Although those machines can identify some chemical compositions of possible foreign…

I have been to Eastern Europe, and the word is also applied to women about forty and older who are busybodies.  Versions of the word can be used for kindly grandmothers as well, and it can be used to refer to any poor old lady.  

I look forward to see if Ocasio-Cortez is more going for her as a legislator, than a publicity machine setting up weekly straw men to knock down. It’s getting a bit much, like stories about the amazing exploits of Kim Jong Un. This week O-C is off and there is no real news about it, not even a singular fact, like that…

I guess if they are hard up, they can sell more commercials, even let a telemarketer buy time if there is one so rich as to afford it.  The NFL might as well get paid for a publicity debacle, instead of shelling out.

Interestingly, the highest levels of formaldehyde you might be exposed to in clothing are going to be encountered with fabrics made from natural fibers, because it is used in the process to make cotton, ‘Wrinkle free.” There isn’t really very much formaldehyde released from clothing, though.

The criticism wasn’t particularly harsh, compared to some I get.

The problem of her not being brought to trial, or before a judge anyway, is that she refused to be interviewed by police several times, any one of which might have resulted in a decision to send her for a mental evaluation.  Eventually, when a public defender was appointed, she evidently didn’t cooperate with him…

I didn’t say that the bail system is good, just that this case isn’t an indictment of it and may be the opposite.