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Great piece as always, Tom! I was 12 when this came out, and while I certainly remembered loving the action stuff, I distinctly remember that the vagaries of the conflict at the end DID bug the hell out of me. I remember asking my dad ... “wait, who are they fighting, and also why?” It makes the movie even more dumb

you definitely don’t know what a Ponzi scheme is

Like he’s not even doing anything illegal? He’s just a sales rep for Asti Spumanti? I’m in.

Yep, I’ll echo this comment. I’m 46 years old and can say that the notion in 1987 that Beatty was a huge star was even difficult for me, a child of the 80s, to really grasp. I remember being somewhat confused (?) when there was such a big hullabaloo about Dick Tracy. The movie was so hyped because he was the lead and

That is spot ON, mullets. The worst part about Ishtar, as you point out, is that it’s mostly BORING! As Roger Ebert said in 1987:

Great stuff, Rachel. I’m an experienced runner now but we all had to start somewhere. Your tips are spot on. If you don’t mind, I would add two more that really helped me when I was a beginner:

that’s a great analysis

There are (obviously) enough parallels between the Homeland White House and ours to BEG the question: how would the real life White House (and Trump supporters) react to the flight recorder situation? The answer is too obvious to ignore, isn’t it? Russia’s big reveal would be followed by a couple things - (1) it’s

ah, how very mature of you

Let me make this clear, because you are being purposely obtuse for some reason. In response to my original post accusing the commenters in this thread of creating these strawmen who are allegedly saying we should shelter in place for “years,” you said: that “many people, including Beth Sawecki” have said “This will

Right.  The kind who argues in bad faith.  

You just linked to (1) THIS ARTICLE, which doesn’t address stay-at-home orders or shelter in place at all; and (2) another article which I reread and, again, says nothing about this lasting for “years.” Beth doesn’t suggest a time frame, except to suggest sometime in May seems ambitious. This is the most specific as

Please link to me the article in which Beth says we need to shelter in place “for years.”  I’ll wait

The new Elder album is, in my humble opinion, their best yet.  Masterful.  Less stoner, more prog.

This article says or implies nothing of the sort.  The positives and negatives of social distancing, and how long stay-at-home orders should remain in place, is not the subject of this article.  It just isn’t.

The hard on some people have for their being no solution but to lock everyone up for the year plus”

I’m generally with you and I think the OP is an idiot, but I do have a question about your numbers.  Is Sweden, with no lockdowns, actually doing better than the US, with lots of states locked down?  156 deaths per million in population would translate to 51,480 US deaths ... a number we will eclipse in a month or

Unless you live in an area that happens to be the same direction from all of the big 4 network broadcasters ... well, good luck. Most of us live somewhere where one or two networks is to one direction, and the others are located entirely to the opposite direction. When that happens, there is no way of getting all 4.

Unless you live in an area that happens to be the same direction from all of the big 4 network broadcasters ...

Scott - your reaction was the same as mine (and others here as well, apparently), so I thought I’d echo it here as well. The flight recorder doesn’t matter anymore! Without that MacGuffin in play, why would Carrie ever consider killing Saul?!

Wait ... you can’t deglaze your cast iron skillet with wine?!  Shit.  I do this quite often