My suspicion is that Bannon is more secure. Despite being on the wrong side of the Ivanka/Jared axis he's managed to stay on, and the only time you really heard about him being pushed to the side was when SNL was making puppet-master jokes, and while I'm sure that got under Trump's skin, it wasn't Bannon's fault and…

Your question made me laugh, but then I got genuinely curious. Per Comicvine:

How does a were-whale even cause trouble? Does she steal a nuclear submarine? Terrorize Seaworld? Eat scuba divers?

Fully formed, like Zeus.

"I wish her well and I hope she goes on to make a tremendous amount of money."

Good.

Except in Mexico, where, for reasons one hopes were purely visual, he is Jesus on the Day of the Dead.

You mean The Crow v. Spawn: Dawn of Murderous Revenge as Narrative Engine?

The "incentive" they code in is basically an instinct. I'm being nerdy here but as much as I fear AI and the people working at capitalizing on it, I kinda love the core ideas that its built on.

It may not be the conversation we need but it is the conversation we deserve.

See, I always worry about that stuff because my memory is so so so fucking bad I basically don't trust any of my recollections about almost anything, and yet I have to sort of assume they're a little true or I couldn't even get through the day.

Oh, really? Could it have been Tiffany in the movie?

And these sorts of things are I think difficult and weird even under more "normal" (ie, not rich, famous, high profile, etc.) circumstances. Without getting into specifics there's something like this in my mother's family, and while I don't think the person is lying - by all accounts a ridiculously honest person - the…

The only part I remember about her from that movie is recounting a walk with her father when he was going through one of his many financial collapses and he gestured to a panhandler or somebody and said to her, "See him? He has more money right now than I do."

I've been thinking about re-watching Born Rich. I remember it not being very good as cinema but interesting because of its interviews and subjects. I suspect that the slightly creepy/sad feeling I had watching it back then would be replaced with full-on revulsion and horror now.

That's fair. I guess I think that while he's an ally against Trump and that form of madness, he's still a defender of the systems that allowed Trump to come to power in the first place and still imagines a return to some political center that I don't think has existed at least since the second Bush term, and until he…

I feel like him and Thomas Friedman are, like, celestial twins; like they are opposites that also, paradoxically, are the same and that they will live for as long as American capitalism lives, and only when it expires will they be allowed to return to the cosmos - not dying, for they are immortal, timeless, no,…

I used to watch Brooks every Friday on PBS's news, and he's reasonable far as it goes - socially moderate, too faithful in capitalism's ability to save us all but doesn't want poor people to just die in the streets either - but he is hopelessly out of touch, and while he's self-aware enough to understand this (after…

I know what you mean: we are in such weirdly cartoonish times that I'm regularly wondering if I didn't die at some point not too long ago and this is all some kind fever dream before passing on to something else. Or, like, I walked through one of those Sliders portals and didn't notice.

Why, in those days there were so many Batmans! I'm telling you, you could throw a rock at random and hit one, seven times out of ten, there were so many! We had to set up soup kitchens! The city was just lousy with Batmans! Then we elected Mayor Giuliani, and he really put things right, he did, though I do miss the…