A ★★★ review of Follow the Fleet (1936) I am not much of a musical song and dance kind of guy so this was a real slog getting through about the first three quarters of it. It was not helped by Randolph Scott playing a very unappealing chara...

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A ★★★½ review of Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death (1970) My brother has been on kind of a Doctor Who kick lately, starting with the second doctor and moving on to the third and who knows what next! I had expressed some interest in the project so my brother ...

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A ★★½ review of Horsemen (2009) I saw this after having seen Copycat for the first time in a long time and having kind of liked it and expected this to be much more like that. At the same time, I saw part of the preview and it looke...

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A ★★★ review of Nuremberg (2025) This was one of two movies that I had to watch only half of on the plane. I saw the last half of this on the plane in Chicago waiting to get off the ground for an unusually long time as the ground cre...

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A ★★★★ review of Project Hail Mary (2026) Hyunsook and I saw an ad for this when we were at Humint and the name sounded dumb and the preview was not too thrilling, but I did note we would probably see it when it came because there has not bee...

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There was a theater in the actual hotel when my brother and nephew Theodore and I went to St. Louis for Midwest Sociological Society 2026. They played Raiders of the Lost Ark, but we missed it and this was our first movie. I was really tired and nodded off and had to be pushed to stay awake.

A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025) I was super bummed I missed this when it was in the theater, especially as it debuted at the Pusan film festival (now spelled BIFF) and then had a theatrical run. I had to squeeze to get in One Battle...

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Okay...

It seems a lot of people vote Democratic for basically social democratic reasons, assuming the party is going to do things to benefit regular people. Whenever a major Democrat goes out of his or her way to screw people over, it does major damage.

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

A ★★½ review of Extraction (2013) Man, that was disappointing. I think Netflix suggested this in an email and I thought it was legitimate with Danny Glover in it. Instead, this seems to have been a lackluster attempt to make a very wo...

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Maybe time for a resurrected LaFollette wing of the Republican Party?

Darn! I look to you for (cautiously) optimistic takes. That is pretty bleak.

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

Exclusive: Pentagon ramps up planning of possible military ops in Cuba Pentagon plans for a possible Cuba operation have accelerated as officials prepare for a potential order from Donald Trump, USA TODAY has learned.

The Anti-War President prepares to invade his third country and/or bomb his eleventh.

In 15 months.

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A ★★★½ review of Warfare (2025) Garland had some pretty good combat action in Civil War so I felt pretty comfortable seeing this with a whole movie based on a real incident. It turned out I had already seen some criticism of this on...

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In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

My thought is that Democrats need to go much further than this. My take is that this is the bare minimum for the next non-Trump Republican nominee to win back competitiveness and in order to reestablish international US legitimacy.

Even were he opposed to THIS war in particular, there are numerous actions he could have taken to blow the whistle, rally opposition, push the war powers resolution, or even try to remove the president over an impending policy disaster, but he chose to stand by the president as the war began.

Thank you for reminding me of it. I just donated and reposted the link to all of my social media.

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Why are we allied with these people?

Anyone who claims to think he was actually against the war needs to be asked why he did not take any elementary steps that could have slowed or stopped the war before it started. He could have gone public or called for and supported the war powers resolution in advance of hostilities, for instance.

One of the biggest Democratic missteps in 2024 was to stop the campaign keeping the "weird" label pinned to him. Regular people see this as intuitively true when pointed out, but the media generally like him and will not let the message spread unless it is actively pushed.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.