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Nov 23 2018
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Look, it’s been 44 years since it’s release so I trust I’m not “spoiling” things (Ilsa flies off with Victor and Blaine and Renault disappear into the fog while La Marseillaise swells in the background). The big reveal in Chinatown is that Katherine is Evelyn’s sister and her daughter. Ok, that says something about how …
Nov 23 2018
Catching Up
Melania It Just Doesn’t Matter Either one of them, other than the deep seated hypocrisy of Republicans. “Lock Her Up!” Eat Your Vegetables Chicken “I bet you’d be on my side if I had killed a journalist”
Nov 23 2018
Cartnoon
Was Windows Vista THAT bad? Yes, yes it was. For me the point of contention was the lack of backward compatibility in both hardware and software. What made 7 shine by comparison (and still shine, it’s what I use) is by the time it came along truly compatible hardware had come down to a reasonable …
Nov 21 2018
Abuse of Power
Journamalists, Pundits, and Bloggers are getting this all wrong. Breaking news on the most significant legal scandal to hit this White House since the report that Donald Trump tried to fire Bob Mueller. This is truly a bombshell. President Donald trump tried to order the Justice Department to prosecute not one but two of his …
Nov 20 2018
Turkey Loaf
My family informs me that they don’t much like my Turkey Loaf. As a matter of fact the exact quote was “It tastes like leftovers just before you pitch them in the garbage.” Thanks guys. Now you know why I’m in Therapy. As it turns out what they object to is the concept of Ground …
Nov 20 2018
Turkeys Away
“Oh the Humanity!” Did you watch the whole episode? How could you possibly think this was a good idea? Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane by Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic 11/20/18 Here in Yellville this cold and rainy weekend, there are turkeys everywhere—turkey shirts and turkey costumes and turkey paraphernalia. …
Nov 20 2018
Not A Stunt
I sort of (but not really) hate pointing out that a substantial part of the U.S. population are what is politely called “low information” but I call ignorant. Sending Troops to the border was a transparent appeal to Trump’s most racist bigoted base. There are Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the …
Nov 19 2018
Pelosi
I got asked by Richard and Emily today whether I thought Pelosi wouls win her Speaker’s race as if I knew something about politics, which I do actually because I write about it here every day and I read a ton of stuff that doesn’t make the cut. What I told them was it was …
Nov 19 2018
A Star Is Born (2018)
“The one movie even Neil deGrasse Tyson can’t ruin.”- John Oliver Hah. Rick Roll. Seriously, last show of the season which is extremely disappointing. Oliver will return in February and I can’t wait. Losing regular programming for the next 2 and a half months is one of those things that make this such a SAD …