She’s there to be a fake protagonist and audience surrogate, the only sane woman.

Seeing an interview with Del Toro suggests that maybe it’s more about Alejandro rediscovering his humanity than black ops porn.

Seeing an interview with Del Toro suggests that maybe it’s more about Alejandro rediscovering his humanity than black ops porn.

The movie is meant to suck you in with cool anti-heros doing cool anti-heroic things and then hit you over the head with the realization that these guys are monsters. I think the point in the film when it really starts to push the “what the fuck” buttons is when Matt tells the Delta leader “weapons free, friend,…

The movie is meant to suck you in with cool anti-heros doing cool anti-heroic things and then hit you over the head with the realization that these guys are monsters. I think the point in the film when it really starts to push the “what the fuck” buttons is when Matt tells the Delta leader “weapons free, friend,…

Bannon and Millers version of “breaking it down and starting fresh” includes removing any and all limits to corporate and individual greed so none of those pesky “deep state” government types get in the way of oligarchs and despots.

And “disruption” is a whole lot less scary if you’re old, rich and white. If you’re old you don’t have to worry about living with the fallout and nobody is going to expect you to take an active role in the glorious revolution. If you’re rich you have a cushion of cash if the economy goes to shit (you don’t have mortgag…

I just can’t understand how anyone apart from idiot anarchists would believe “disruption” in and of itself is a good thing. Destruction of the democratic norms of good governance isn’t helping anybody except oligarchs and authoritarians.

I categorically deny that I had anything to do with it.

I categorically deny that I had anything to do with it.

The ending of Infinity War was very low stakes for anybody who’s looked at a comic book in the last twenty years. Nobody stays dead, ever. Marvel’s killing of Coulson and bringing him right back telegraphed that they are perfectly willing to kill major characters for cheap pathos and then bring them back to keep the fa…

I was on a teleconference with Mark Ruffalo (talking about this water quality NGO). He was amazingly adorable. So sometimes it’s ok to meet (or at least skype)your heros. 

Because the battery idea was jaw-droppingly stupid. We consume a ton of energy most of which is used to stay alive and then put out about 100W of heat.  It’d made more sense if the AIs were using humans as processors.

The Culture books run on “benevolent” AIs (at least, Culture-friendly AIs).

The Internet was created by people that age. Bob Kahn is 80.

Here in Arizona we just use our state-approved heavy machine guns and tracer ammo. Strangely we can’t buy firecrackers or bottle rockets..

You’re a bad person who’s bad at grammar.

Hey, they found a use for their crap pizzas.

How much could a pen full of diamonds possibly be worth? Small diamonds are basically worthless (compared to many materials) and a normal-sized pen wouldn’t hold many 1 carat diamonds which are worth around $5000 each. Basically, Jeff Goldblume’s pen would be hard-pressed to be worth much more than $100,000, unless…

A Magnum PI reboot? Is Simon and Simon next?