Trump might end up being another historical President, but only through sheer incompetent destruction of US hegemony. 2024 and Trump 2 may end being a historical year like 410 and the Sack of Rome.

I agree but think it’s even more stark. There’s only two Presidents worth discussing as historic figures — as Presidents! — and those are Lincoln and FDR. The rest are Generals or seat fillers.

That must have been mesmerizing in IMAX

The landing was damn well stuck - along with a blastering doowop of a semi-cliffhanger / unresolved thread to make you wanna come back.

(Though some of the TV stuff in the middle I could take or leave.)

Clive has better hair

Ah, WordPerfect. The perfect green screen word processor, never to be equaled or bettered by any other writing app except maybe Scrivener.

Thanks for posting about the Belvidere. I must have walked past it for years when I went to Eggers Middle but never knew the history.

Not to be a noodge, but it was Gavit, not Gavits, right? A descendant was who Gavit High School (now defunct) was named for?

They were very much an Ivy League and Big Ten thing in 1987.

The rest of the article is pretty sophisticated about where that refusal is coming from

Also: leeches on their junk. Come on!

Also it was an 80s movie about 50s kid’s nostalgia. Like…what the hell is even being talked about? Latchkey was a different deal, though it had similarities (because King’s mom worked so he understood that vibe).

It’s telling that Alito picked Iran instead of, say, Norway or the Netherlands or Israel which also require public service (often but not always military).

I’m not entirely clear how the Dred Scott issue wasn’t settled at, not the Supreme Court, but at Appomattox Court House.

Does your belief system start with being a Burly Man? Because mine does.

Grrr, graa!

Fair. I understand that my love for flying radioactive fire breathing turtles can be matched by someone else’s love for a giant scary moth.

!!!!!

See, it’s Mothra that‘s really disturbing. people go out of their way to swim with turtles. Nobody travels to Maui to flap their arms with moths.

Lies! Everyone does!

Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson is a real genre mashup of a different legendary figure, Ogier the Dane from the Song of Roland, who eventually got stuck into some Avalon poems including marrying Morgana Le Fay?

1: farmer, cowboy, Wobbly, bricklayer, mason, contractor; 2: carpenter, foreman; 3: lumberjack, assembly line, apprentice to master electrician, union rep and lobbyist.

I think there’s a whole Champions / Villains & Vigilantes seam of players.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

No….never mind. Purge all systems

Damn right!

I kept wondering if Brady Tkachuk was from the same hometown as Joy Dunne.

For the record, putting a Bears stadium in Porter would be a lot fuckin’ funnier than putting one in Hammond. Either one would better than Arlington Heights.

The Bears moving to my hometown would be the final revenge of the Hammond Pros from 1920

I mean, Wolf Lake is hardly even poisonous now! Lost Marsh golf course is where a radioactive superfund site used to be but that definitely got cleared up!