It’s sobering to look back and see just how full of rot Hollywood has been, in light of recent information. Has Top Gun aged well? How could it have?

Yeah, David Benioff’s birth name is David Friedman. He uses his mother’s maiden name for his work partly because there already is an established author named David Friedman, but also because his father is Stephen Friedman. As in, “former head of Goldman Sachs” Stephen Friedman.

Yeah, this is a case where there’s a problem, and a even more significant problem. The problem is, of course, that dude, that shithead took an oath to protect and serve the public in a lawful manner. It’s hard to protect and serve people that you’re running over, and it’s hard to do so in a lawful manner when…

And when they ... because as soon as I said this is private property, those words enraged the crowd. Horde, absolute horde came through the now smashed down gates coming right at the house. My house, my east patio was 40 feet from Portland Place Drive. And these people were right up in my face, scared to death. And…

Fantastic reporting. You did a great job demonstrating that police response to minority subgroups is directly related to said subgroup’s fealty to power. When otherwise gender-conforming, wealthy white people ask for something for which there is no zero-sum tradeoff, police and society as a whole are only too happy to…

SCOTUS doesn’t need political capital.

Offhand, I’m not sure that it would be a high priority. Not in the sense that it shouldn’t be. Or that such a law isn’t valuable in protecting an important right on behalf of women.

You’re not wrong. And I’d also add in: this was how society was in the 1990's and early 2000's. Yes, there was a spectrum, and yes, The Man Show branded itself as being further along that Bell Curve than, say, Late Night with Jay Leno.

I mean are these “blacks” real or part of one family?

Always important, though, not to confuse Slipknot with some of the offbrand knock-off bands out there:

Adopt stupid policies, win stupid prizes, Governor. And the worst part is, everything about this was predictable. We knew from China and Korea how the disease was spread, and how you beat that disease. We knew from China and Korea that by the time you knew that there was an outbreak in your city, that you already had…

Yeah, if there is room in Biden’s political capital budget for laws to pass after he gets the coronavirus under control, he should spend it all on getting as many territories made into states as possible. Puerto Rico. District of Columbia. US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam if at all possible.

Best of luck, though I must note as someone who just started RDR last weekend, I couldn’t save my progress because for some reason, I couldn’t complete my login on my X-Box One for an X-Box 360 game. There was some kind of backwards-compatability issue I couldn’t work out.

What can you say to someone like this? It sounds like he got a C- in Econ 101 and that is the extent of what he understands about how markets work. How does he think “more competition” would work for medical care? After suffering a sudden, catastrophic injury, he would have shopped around for the cheapest care? Like,…

They decide to see Dead Poets Society. I told them to enjoy their movie, I was going to see Batman. Missed opportunity? Maybe at the time. In hindsight, hell no.

 Still, with Tulsa County seeing what its health director called “steep upward trends” of coronavirus cases, it’s a little worrying that the 74-year-old president, the oldest person to hold executive office, chose to gather his own super-spreader event. Is he OK? Is he trying to get out of a second term?

Exactly. This is a case where, sure, in an ideal world, the ideal amount of waste would be $0. Nobody’s in favor of errors and waste.

And finally, obviously, The Chic Dix

You must not be terribly familiar with Johnny Cash as an artist then. Cash was pretty much legendary in his later career for creating covers that so radically changed and elevated the work that many original writers felt that the song was no longer theirs. Trent Reznor, for instance, has explicitly stated that “Hurt”…