I think he means that Kevin James, the actual person, does not exist. He’s really a character played by Alan Rickman, who in this movie is playing another character. 

Damn, I love The Untouchables. It’s basically a simple good-vs-evil morality play with Costner as the whiter-than-white G-Man facing off against De Niro’s hell-spat-this-guy-back-out gangster, but is prevented from becoming too sentimental and hokey with the kind of absurd graphic violence that only the 1980s could…

A movie where Woody Allen Ant holds Danny Glover Ant’s decapitated head as he dies. One weird-ass movie.

She starts with the laughs coming a mile a minute, teeing up jokes and then knocking them out the park

Been watching him hang himself for almost 4 years. His neck hasn’t snapped yet.

Hooray for more Stumptown!

Peter was not progressive, he was obsessed with Prussia and trying to (badly) copy their reforms, Catherine played sides against each other but was consistently influenced by enlightened values as opposed to Peter being simply fixated on Prussian centralization and militarism. ‘Right wing reactionaries’ is something…

He also intentionally lost a war with Prussia and was an unpopular creep, that may have also had something to do with it.

Agreed on the armies. I liked that I could develop linchpin counties that were my strategic muster points based on how I was playing that particular run through. The fleets...honestly since I usually play as an Irish queen (immortal trait ftw) taking on much bigger powers using the limits on troop movement over water…

Are 3/4s of the nations locked out at launch like ck 2? Because that was so stupid. It does seem like and improvement in the nitty gritty of the game. And it would be nice to have a paradox game without god awful ui.

The Princess Bride is the rare movie that gives you an enriched viewing experience over time. You can watch it as a straight drama when you’re a kid, and you don’t realize until you’re an adult that it’s actually very funny.

I think it’s largely a function of how long a family’s had money. People who are raised with lots of money know that there’s nothing so dreadfully middle class as talking about money and that showing your money off is for poor folks. Rich people who have had the time to get used to being rich downplay their wealth:…

Dunning and Kruger were the very smart scientists who came up with this concept, so they should stay, but this is a very good example of it. 

That court said it to the tune of 9-0, with Elena Kagan writing the opinion. What the opinion specifically said is that federal prosecutors can’t charge people with fraud using fairly abstract reasoning to assert their conduct met the test of being intended to obtain money or property. The court repeatedly said that…

Actually, the President Pro Tempore is only fourth in line as the most senior member of the majority party. If no election is held, Democrats will hold the majority in the senate, meaning that it would fall to Patrick Leahy.

Kushner, the human embodiment of “Well, actually.....”

Anyone else remember that Far Side comic from the ‘90s, where the caption is “Hell’s Video Store” and it’s a video store where every movie is Ishtar?

What exactly did people think they could they have charged him with?

Nice. If we have to deal with hyper-jingoistic garbage like Call of Duty every year, we can surely have a few outright leftist titles here and there.