Oh please. Low-budget Trancers was the best movie of 1984. And High Road to China was a much better movie than Raiders of the Lost Ark .

And why do I remember Ladyhawke so much more fondly than the flatulent Blade Runner, even though they both boasted the late, great Rutger Hauer?

Also, no Inherit the Wind, A Man for All Seasons, or The Lion in Winter?

I guess “best” in this case means “greatest” (in the Great Pyramids sense) rather than most entertaining.

On the bright side of this list, if Blackcoat’s Daughter is really better than The Witch, then I guess I’ll be seeing at least one new movie this year.

Linode in outer space! The Mandate of Heaven is fulfilled. And the international short-man’s competition (as Fred Reed once put it) has a winner! And it solves the three problems we didn’t actually have (because the world needs more “tech” like the USA needs another STD).

As always, the interesting question is what Unz (or whoever) thinks he’s doing publishing this shite. Is this supposed to scare us into having that pointless war with China?

“They’re gaining on us Skipper! They’ll have the World’s First Lunar Landfill in another 20 years! Do something!”

I think Unz is trying to teach us Chinese. Today’s lesson: “Hua Bin” apparently means “When your only tool is an AI, then every problem looks like a stupid question.”

Seriously, not one word about Trump doing exactly the same thing after being defeated by a bunch of cavemen living on the ass-end of Arabia? It’s a defect of the Indian national character, and not just what politicians DO? (And we knew they were already defective because they don’t buy Team China! For shame!)

Narcotics are illegal for the same reason that crypto is legal: to give the CIA another way to launder money for their black budgets. All the rest is ” collateral damage” as they say. See the works of Alfred McCoy and Douglas Valentine.

Instead of obessing about the Chinese and all the other entreprenureal spirits who are merely trying to make a buck, Americans would be better off asking different questions. For ezample, what is it about the USA that makes Americans want to use such drugs, and in such fantastic quantities?

What did you have to do to get deported from Nigeria?