An *Alabama* jury, also. One of the most cursed populations in the country.

Yeah, if you're gonna risk an assault charge (and who could blame you) might as well tack on destruction of property because fuck it.

Bad Lieutentant probably has one of my favorite Nic Cage performances.

I'd say it's the West Virginia of New England - extremely insular culture, demographically old as fuck, stagnant economic growth with dead industries that aren't coming back, almost zero black people, they love electing dumb assholes, etc.

I think he clearly seems to hate Chet, which is the energy I like to see.

I think people are underrating the desire to have a president who can speak in complete, cogent paragraphs extemporaneously. It's been a while.

I always felt the obvious counterpoint to that was "Let people openly dislike things." That's how people refine their tastes to find out what they love.

If you mindlessly let shitty arty pass by without critique, then you're basically encouraging slop.

The only people who "like" KISS are dudes (nearly always dudes) who were young adolescents when they broke. They are an entirely nostalgia/identity-based band.

Like A Prayer still slaps, imo.

When The Atlantic declares a minimum five-year moratorium on hiring Ivy graduates I'll take this shit seriously.

The other simple heuristic is that he's a fucking streamer, a class of people that arguably don't deserve civil rights.

I feel like the recent episode conclusively proves that Fairfax didn't belong any near a position of power but maybe I'm vindictively woke.

I long for the time when these idiots just go back to being genuinely apolitical.

There's something to be said for being randomly selected from a pre-approved list that would somewhat mitigate Senator's tendency to believe they're Special Boys (or Girls).

The official state punishment should be a stiff prison sentence, but I also think victims should be allowed a single strong wack to the perp's hands with a rubber mallet.

Soderbergh is a classic and proud middlebrow filmmaker (laudatory).

I honestly lost my mind during '21-24 when people thought it was The Worst Economy Ever. I could've told them firsthand that 10%+ unemployment really, really fucking sucks! Burrito taxis are even more expensive when you don't have a fucking job!

In honor of today's NYT sanewashing and recent discovery that Donald Trump is not very mentally acute.

Invoking "Liberty" has always been one of those low-key tells you're listening to a reactionary.

Subsidizing rural areas is an utter (political) failure. They quite explicitly would rather be poor than vote for a D, so let them be poor. It's what they want - respect their wishes!

Gemini in incognito mode: Wow, this is pretty cool and useful.

Gemini when logged in Gmail: What the fuck is this, this is annoying as hell

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard

I very much am not a fan of indulgently long YouTube videos but this is a welcome exception.

One of the most important commentaries into Why We're In This Mess.

youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

His audience is demonstrably very, very stupid.

I know two people directly who noped out of the trades precisely because they didn't want to spend years being verbally abused by a Boomer shithead who thinks yelling=mentoring.

Center-left people are gonna have to get used to Straussian lying. Right-wingers constantly lie about what they want to do! It works!

Dude is on his deathbed and even now can't (ie - refuses) to see things clearly.

The optimistic scenario is that Iran controls the Straight *just* long enough to turbo-fuck Trump & MAGA (JD,too) into permanent oblivion but yes, a fucking tollbooth there is unacceptable.

I think an actual President could assemble a proper international coalition to end it. Not gonna be Trump.

We're already seeing it. The rhetorical tropes that would have worked on Twitter 5-6 years just don't hit anymore. The MAGA chuds attempting to talk like supervillains right now are currently hitting the limits on that rhetoric.

It's also poignant because if any human being on the planet is acutely aware of and sensitive to Truffaut's quote about "There's no such thing as an anti-war film" it is Martin Scorsese.

Also, he probably can't legitimately bench 315.

If he walks into a 24-Hour Fitness in a blue city, has one of the staff load the bar with six (6) 45-lbs plates (not bumper plates) and gets a rep, then I'll revise the opinion he faked that shit.