Children? S0mebody think of the grizzly bears! Sleeping in a cave somewhere minding their own business, and this bitch maligns them in a Senate hearing.

It seems like every Democratic senator is running for President in 2020. Between Franken roasting DeVos on growth, Booker breaking precedent to testify against Sessions, and now Bennet it seems like we’ll have a crowded primary field in 2020.

tim kaine, al franken, murphy, bernie, bennet, elizabeth warren...

Exactly. The recording industry should have seen that Napster responded to how people wanted to consume music. Want that one song that’s big on the radio these days? Maybe download it for 99 cents instead of being forced to spend 17 bucks on an album full of filler. Would it have been less profitable? Sure, but the…

I wouldn’t be paying for my HBO sub right now if I hadn’t been able to download and watch the first few seasons (and I couldn’t have afforded it then in any case). I’ve also bought every season on Blu Ray. In my case at least, pirating that show led to me forking over hundreds of dollars that I wouldn’t have otherwise.

Yup. We are a lower middle class family. Our only alternative to pirating or streaming movies would be to not see movies at all. At least this way we end up talking about them to our more monied friends. Not that I’m trying to make excuses, ‘cause I don’t feel bad.

Yeah that about fits... I about crapped my pants when I paid $17.50 to go see Doctor Strange. It was the 3D, electronic recliner with all the bells and whistles experience though.

Exactly. Moonlight? Not gonna pirate. Some big-ass bloated blockbuster? Fair game.

We went to see Rogue One, just two of us, and it was almost $50. And I know someone will say, well it was your choice to go to the movie theater, which take another step toward making going to the movies an “elite” activity.

Same here, I guess. I won’t pirate or buy pirated movies, but for a lot of people it’s hard to break out the violin for them when it almost $50 for two people to go see what may turn out to be a crappy movie at a theater. That comes across to a lot of folks as a bigger dent to their pocket that piracy does to a…

Short answer: I don’t care.

I think there can be a more nuanced stance. How about caring about the folks but also being frustrated by content providers not allowing access at all, or at a reasonable price.

If shows were readily available to download for a price per episode, I’d pay the price. But some, like The Young Pope, which nymag and this site have convinced me I must see, aren’t available on itunes or anywhere else. And I don’t want to get cable for just that.

Nope.

It’s literally the start of the pledge “On my honor, I will try to serve god and my country...something something something.” Best part is my brain can only read it in short choppy 8 year olds reciting something.

really? that’s like the only part I remember.

It is the very first line of the Girl Scouts promise:

Truly this will gut our country. We need all kids to be well educated so they can become our next generation of doctors, engineers, researchers, business owners, inventors, and, yes, artists, writers, historians and everything else that contributes to our society.

I wish he were alive to eviscerate all these lunatics...

Jesus Christ. This. So much this.