I still don’t understand why U.S. forces didn’t simply direct every battleship and aircraft carrier to Japan in 1942 and try to deliver a knockout punch on their turf.

Because we might’ve lost that battle. And then quite possibly the war.

My wife and I are now going to go see this on Saturday. I was a little pleasantly surprised to see it’s still scheduled to be shown through next week. Movies usually come & go pretty fast out of theaters, these days.

The sage of Pablo “They” Gomez has concluded….
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/crime/article237679369.html

Curly (not kinky) black or dark-brown hair, is just about the most appealing physical trait a woman can have, as far as I’m concerned.

(Can you even discuss this at Free Republic? They used to ban you for contrails talk.)

There is simply no way that Free Republic could possibly still exist. You must be lying, for some peculiar reason.

California’s success as the best big state…

From what year are you posting this comment?

Call me a cynic but I think we’ll be 5-10 years away from autonomous cars for another 30-40 years.

for me is attempted manslaughter.

I don’t believe there’s any such charge as “attempted manslaughter” under our legal system. But a conviction for felonious aggravated assault, with appropriate sentencing, would remedy this situation. Seriously, this guy broke like half the bones in an old lady’s body. He should be going away for a long time.

Here in California, it is a crime to “annoy” a minor. Penal Code 647.6. This has been interpreted to depend on whether the average, reasonable minor would find the conduct annoying.

This law may have been poorly worded (back when it was written, in another era), but judges & prosecutors understand full well that it is intended to combat pedophiles. So I’m gonna assume you don’t need to worry about it.

Will White America be able to rise phoenix-like out of the ashes as Russia is apparently doing in Putin’s post-Yeltsin Russia?

I suspect not.

But it’s our destiny to make the attempt.

His 1980s technology was so awesome that Bloomberg made most of his money in the 21st Century.

Must’ve been the only game in town?

People would still be using the crap out the old Apple II-series computers…if superior computers hadn’t been commonplace for decades.

How about my Thanksgiving Eve movie, the Jennifer Lawrence vehicle Red Sparrow, which wanted to be a sexy and tense thriller and ultimately came off as gross and tiresome.

I enjoyed that movie, but in order to do so, one must get past the fact that it apparently takes place in some weird, alternate timeline where Putin’s Russia is indistinguishable from that of Stalin. Once you accept that grotesque depiction of the contemporary Russian Federation as just some weird quirk of the folks who made this film, it’s actually pretty good. But that is kind of a big hump to get over.

Some dogs are very sex-specific in their behavior, however. I used to have a half-Dalmatian, Stella, and she was almost ludicrously feminine. I suspect this is more common in dogs (such as Dalmatians) that have been bred to be pets, than among the more work-a-day breeds.

There was also a scene where 60+ Deniro is recounting his US Army WWII war experience in Italy to a very old looking Pesci, where flashback Deniro is shown making two Nazi prisoners dig their own graves and he shoots them dead. The killing being countenanced by his commanding officers. You know, the Army and US government back then was pretty much the same as the mob.

When my father was a young officer in the Air Force, he knew an older guy who’d been a paratrooper on D-Day, and that guy had been ordered (along with another fellow) to execute/murder an entire French family of four (they had intel which suggested this family would raise the alarm with the local collaborators).

The Second World War wasn’t beanbag.

AE, are the scores available by race/state split, and types of asians (Indians, Chinese, rest)? Would be a great way to test a few hypothesis:
– Any geographic pattern to White scores going down?
– Any geographic pattern to asian scores going up?
– Are asian scores going up because of more H1B Indians and their kids entering the system?

Personally I think there are 2 things going on here – cheating (even the soft variety of advance test takers feeding the later ones) among asians, and social degeneracy in whites from various forms like mass media, drugs, breakdown of family.

Peele is the aurtuer of our time. Get Out is a masterpeace

GET OUT is a good movie. Unfortunately, almost no movies are as good as people often claim that GET OUT is, and GET OUT is no exception.

I’m curious about his upcoming feature, ANTEBELLUM. I think it’s pretty clear that US was an example of the fabled sophomore slump. Although it was decent enough.

On my latest visit to downtown Lansing, some black guy repeatedly kept fingering his genitalia beneath his sweatpants then trying to shake my hand at a downtown coffee-shop.

I’m not trying to be gross…but he probably had an active herpes pustule, and was trying to spread that virus to you.

I spent my teen years in the company of a lot of marginal characters (in the 1980s), and I feel confident that is something an urban skell would do.

It never occurred to me there was any connection between Cossacks and Kazakhs.

This must be how dumb people feel every day….

The most disgusting part of this, by far, is the way these college-aged young women exhibit the maturity and decorum of sadistic eleven-year-olds. Politics aside, people who behave like this should be expelled from any college or university they may happen to attend. They should be afraid of acting like that in public, for fear of utter public humiliation. If they have no shame, it may need to be beaten into them.

I’m not quite sure how these people become “likely Democratic primary voters” for pollsters, but Tulsi has best support from those with conservative views, who are Republicans or who voted for Trump. I wonder how many people have registered Democratic just to vote for her.

In New Hampshire, they allow you to change your voter registration at the polling place, and choose the corresponding ballot (all on Election Day, that is). With there effectively being no GOP Presidential primary next year, I predict that Tulsi will do better in New Hampshire, probably far better, than any of the polls are predicting.

Tulsi expertly detected as Putin’s most likely candidate by experts

The Russians prefer the candidate who doesn’t want to nuke them.

Nazis are notorious for their desire to avoid being nuked.

18% of the remainder probably can’t resist the most masculine, dominant presence on the stage in any event, which Gabbard can lay a serious claim to being, considering that many of her male rivals are geriatrics or practical eunuchs.

I agree. Representative Gabbard is, simultaneously, both the most masculine, and the most feminine Democratic Presidential candidate. I wouldn’t have thought that was possible, but I guess in a world* where Pete Buttigieg can be perceived as a serious contender for the Presidency, anything’s possible.

*honk, honk

The nice third, with over a million people, is probably the nicest urban space in the USA.

Yes, this is true. People think Chicago is some sort of Hellhole, but no. A lot of it’s really nice. But I still don’t want to live there….

And I REALLY don’t want to drive in Chicago. Chicago drivers are madmen. I’d die within a year, if I had to drive extensively in that city.

They even have guys called “Violence Interrupters” patrolling hot spots in Baltimore.

Wow, what an innovative way to, uh…get shot?

I’ve always had somewhat mixed feelings about this movie. I was the only person at the cinema for like a 2 PM matinee at the now-defunct United Artists Pavilion in downtown San Jose, back in ’97. I recall the scenes with Robert Blake were some of the scariest I’ve ever seen (both the amazing scene at the party in the first act, and also a brief scene near the end, where Blake’s character is shown striding through some darkened set, shouting “What the fuck is your name?!?”…it doesn’t sound particularly chilling when I type it out, but it was blood-curling at the time).

I think that reaction time plays an important role in this question. After watching the video I think it is clear that after McGlockton attacked Drejka and started advancing again, Drejka was justified in believing that deadly force was necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury. Of course, once McGlockton started backing up that justificiation was removed. That’s where reaction time comes in. I found this in a Florida driving manual:

The average human reaction time of ¾ of a second is based on a laboratory setting where the driver is prepared and waiting for the measurement of reaction time. In actual emergency driving situations, a driver’s actual reaction time may be more than ¾ of a second. Actual reaction time of an average driver is approximately 1.5 seconds during daylight and 2.5 seconds at night.

I think that it is likely that by the time Drejka had processed that McGlockton was attacking him and still advancing and had then made the decision to fire and was in the process of doing that, McGlockton had already started to backup as a reflex to being surprised by the gun. Because of the short amount of time involved here, Drejka likely didn’t have time to react to McGlockton backing up in order to reconsider his decision to fire. After he fired and his brain finished processing the fact that McGlockton had started backing up, his thought was probably Oh Sh**!

The huge amounts of adrenaline experienced in a situation like that make it hard to think straight or even aim properly. Prosecutions after a self defense shooting should take that into account. The choice to fire will often be made in 1 – 2 seconds and then second guessed for years. At least Drejka had a gun and was able to save himself from a good chance of being seriously injured or killed. Hopefully he can get his sentence reduced to within the norm for what he was convicted for.

Because he was a trained pharmacist, he got a job as a pharmacist’s assistant, earning $8-10 an hour in the early 90s. Now, the residents cannot get jobs like that. They have to follow around a pharmacist for the whole 1500 hours, earning nothing.

So…only rich people can become pharmacists, now?*

Do rich people actually want to become pharmacists, however?

*I take it for granted that unpaid internships are a device intended to reserve certain professions to persons likely to be ruling class-adjacent.

My wife and I just moved to Boise from southern California…Other stuff I’ve noticed: it seems like everyone, even the senior citizens, have tattoos, too many of the young women are overweight, and for a place that’s got so many LDS churches, there sure are a lot of bars.

If you’ve lived in California, basically everyplace seems like it has a lot of bars. California doesn’t really have bars,* for whatever reason.

*San Diego is an exception to that rule, I believe.

Um, hello, didn’t she have to send a photo with her application?? She definitely doesn’t look Turkic from southern Russia and Ukraine. At all.

I can’t imagine why anyone would assume this person’s obviously mixed ancestry, couldn’t include some Sephardic lineage, or whatnot.

What’s interesting about this case, is that it almost makes it appear as if the Israeli government is only accepting phenotypically White people as Jews now. Is that actually what’s happening?

It would be inconceivable for a movie maker today to open his movie with the explicit premise, opening shots, and opening text of Brian De Palma’sScarface — that an uncontrolled influx of refugees into America can and will include a significant proportion of criminals and social misfits.

In the Mariel Boatlift, Castro explicitly opened up all of Cuba’s prisons & mental hospitals, and sent those folks to Florida. Even the woke might have to grudgingly admit the possibility of that being a less than ideal outcome.

Besides the obvious nonsense that all this will do is to cause firms to raise prices – and thus destroy the supposed ‘benefit’ to the workers…

Irrespective of the overall merit of this policy proposal, it is not true that increased prices will eliminate the benefit of having three days off every week (instead of two). That is still a real, tangible benefit.

I actually agree with you. Historical Progressivism is a crock. Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals are a great example of this because their entire history is basically regressive. What I have heard about the archaeological record in Australia is the farther back in time you go, the more advanced aboriginal tech is. They use to have clothing, boats, hatchets and other things.

At one point, tens of thousands of years ago and tens of thousands of years before anyone else, they had boats and managed to find Australia, which would have made them some of the most advanced sailors in the entire world. So the sleeping naked on the ground aboriginals that have been around the last couple hundred of years do not represent the apex of aboriginal civilization at all.

The big question then is what the hell happened to them. My hypothesis is climate change, the desertification of Australia, which they barely survived but with their civilization wrecked. Probably the low number of survivors and the isolation they found themselves surviving in caused a lot of successive inbreeding, which explains alot of other things. As per a commentator on the other thread Steve posted, aboriginal phenotypic genes are supposed to be very recessive, which would also support that theory. The pile up of deleterious recessive genes along with total isolation and the difficulty of subsistence in such a harsh environment eventually left them losing everything but the bare essentials.

My alternative theory is that the continent is cursed and slowly turns everything that lives on it into marsupials. We’ll know this is the case if in another 10,000 years all the anglo settlers regress to a naked hunter-gatherer lifestyle and what’s left of the aboriginals develop pouches. It’s like Dagon and Deep Ones but with kangaroos.

Obviously no Bushman was going to ‘choose’ the Kalahari Desert over Capetown or among Amerindians the Mojave desert over Marin but some method of exclusion had to be enforced to push people into the most hostile regions and since, at the time, they were all pretty much of the same racial stock when the exclusion took place one wonders what it was.

There is an ultra-esoteric practice known as “war”, which I think may be the operative factor in this scenario.

What would happen if a White nationalist megabillionaire bought a news network?

I like the way you think!

But I have my doubts the intelligence community would permit that to occur. Private planes have a funny way of crashing….

They are not into cultural liberalism either. They are not woke. I could see voter turnout declining in the rust belt as neither party has anything to offer them. For the GOP to survive they will eventually have to become the populist party of Trump’s 2016 campaign…not just talk to win votes but in actual governing.

If I were in her place and had to choose between throwing the TERFs or the trannies under the bus then the TERFS would not be the ones I’d choose to jettison.

If you offend trannies, it doesn’t just hurt you among tranny voters. Pretty much every Democratic voter with a 6-figure income, thinks the Sun rises & sets on trannyhood. You think one of those Boomer clowns who plans to support Buttigeg, is going to consider switching to someone who thinks boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina? Guess again.

I suspect if push comes to shove Sanders will endorse Warren–they’ve had a nonaggression pact for a while.

I agree, although (and it’s unlikely to matter) I’m pretty certain Sanders won’t endorse another candidate, so long as Tulsi Gabbard remains in the race.

So what is this “American settler stock”?

Which of those three words do you not understand?

One time, almost 30 years ago, I had an absolutely delicious veggie/”Vegan” burger at a health food cafe in San Diego. It was so good, I ordered a 2nd one, and ate that right there on the spot.

The problem was that it literally cost more than meat. In 1991 or thereabouts, no one was willing to pay MORE for fake meat. But today? I think maybe they would. Which suggests this can be done.

The chutzpah of these Ellis Island-Americans, telling us how to run our country.

It really is amazing, isn’t it? I appear to have an Ellis Island surname (although my great-great-great-grandfather, Dr. James Garwood O’Keeffe, actually set sail from Cork to Richmond, Virginia in 1847), although much of my ancestry never-the-less derives from American settler stock. My paternal grandmother was descended from people involved with the founding of the Royal Colony of Maryland, and yet these guys who just showed up from Minsk in 1928 are ready to tell me what’s what. These back-benchers need to sit the Hell down.

The claim there’s no Diversity in the first TERMINATOR, is an outrageous provocation.

“That son-of-a-bitch stole my pants!”

Seriously, why anyone would be interested in any more TERMINATOR flicks, after managing to stay awake through 2009’s TERMINATOR SALVATION, is mysterious at best.

The first film was magnificent. I think even the 2nd film is a bit overrated.

Still waiting for an iota of actual evidence that the sex of the women had anything to do with the outcomes here….

Oy, the glasses! That face!

Physiognamy is real.

Ciaramella has “insufferable, lying Baizuo” written all over him.

Charles Blow may have a bit of a point here. It is to the the credit of Black voters that they eschew Buttigeg.

According to a local elected official I worked with, an Ecuadorian woman in Corona, Queens was buying guinea pigs every week from the Petland Discount until the people working there finally put two and two together.

How comcial. They were selling merchandise, and she was buying it. What’s the problem?

I used to feed unsold “pet” hamsters to my monitor lizard. The Asian woman who owned that pet store was just happy to sell off unsold stock. She knew what I was doing with them (well, in fairness, she probably assumed they were being fed to a snake, as opposed to a voracious lizard).

MA – A Negress who looks like Oprah Winfrey butchers white young ones. 15 min was enough. FF-ed to the end. Dumb.

I made the mistake of seeing that. I thought it was going to be a fun movie, with some weird twist involving voodoo, or whatnot. But no. The plot is basically a wokefest about how mean Southern Whites once bullied a Black girl. Yawn.

I have yet to see THE IRISHMAN, but I doubt I’m going to prefer that to either JOKER or ONCE UPON A TIME…As to which of those latter two are better, I feel like I need to see each a 2nd time, before I could say. Both were great.

I would also extend Honorable Mentions to MIDSOMMAR, and also (despite an overly convoluted plot, and an effort on the part of the woke to co-opt the film’s plot as some “#Resistance” parable) to CAPTIVE STATE.

I don’t literally believe-in-astrology, but apparently the time of year one is born does contribute to various factors, often in ways that correspond to stereotypes associated with the so-called “signs of the Zodiac”. Or so I read in a book many years ago. I can’t actually steer anyone to a site with data that confirms the accuracy of that claim, however.

I learned a very interesting statistic the other day. I can’t vouch for its veracity, but I suspect it is accurate. Anyhoo, what I read is that just over 97 percent of all venture capital funds, go to male-led projects.

I guess those billionaires don’t like making money, and just prefer to discriminate against women instead….

News You Can Use!

“It doesn’t address the underlying concerns around traffic, housing and open space,” Joe Simitian, board president, had previously told The Chronicle.

I can’t believe Joe Simitian is still helping to wreck the greater “Silicon Valley” area. What a freakin’ tool that guy is. It seems that after being term-limited out of the state Senate, he went to the Board of Stupidvisors, where he was apparently granted the chairmanship, because of course he was. He represents Palo Alto & Mountain View. They’re not going to give it to the guy who represents Gilroy and Morgan Hill, LOL.

What’s the Muslima perspective on the Latinx Question?

Race, on the other hand, researchers say today, is a complex combination of factors from physical appearance to family stories and how people are treated as they move through the world.

Does this mean we all owe Elizabeth Warren a big apology?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

The Atlantic treat the porch privates as doing victimless crimes. That Amazon will be on hook to ship replacement shipments. This is the wrong headed approach.

AmazonFlex drivers beware! 5 lost packages and you are kicked off.
byu/zackiebinkes inAmazonFlexDrivers

The so-called “reporter” at The Atlantic really should interview numerous Amazon Flex couriers who are “deactivated” from the platform, fired in other word, because they “lost” more than 5 packages within their last 500 packages. Some no doubt due to Fairley’s actions.

Some how, someone who is desperate enough to work gig economy, but still doing honest work, are not worthy of consideration/sympathy by “elite” journalists.

What are those little crumpled red packages/cans a-strewn all over the Æternal Virgin’s desk?

I voted for this guy when he was the Libertarian nominee for Governor of California, in 2006. And I basically believe that the Earth is hollow, and inhabited by Elvenfolk. So it seems everything is going according to plan….

…it’s a wonder that fugly woman was able to get anyone of either sex to go to bed with her.

I’m not particularly attracted to her either, but she’s a very ordinary-looking woman. I’m an adult, so I don’t sue the term “fugly”, but presumably that means “fucking ugly”, which would be equiavlent to “very ugly”. That’s absurd. She’s a normal woman. Normal women are attractive to a wide array of men. Else the species would be extinct.

If only. That notion is the sex pozz sell job that somehow men who couple-up with post carousel women are in some way the beneficiaries of years of no-string hookups and all matters of quasi-relationship ‘practice’.

For some, sure. They get some ‘skillz’. But in my experience this notion is patently false.

Unless you are partial to the larpy porn-star fakery that tends to show up after decades of soulless rutting with strangers. Good sexytime is not about high-n count ‘experience’.

But again, thats just my experience. Even so, The idea that it must just be awful to have to learn and explore together and that ‘experience’ is better is just proggy sex pozz hookup culture propaganda.

…the slut stigma is a shadow of what it used to be. If anything, women should lie less today than they did in the past.

That seems logical, but the tabu against lying is also much weaker than it used to be.

…to replace the Union Jack as Canada’s flag with the current Maple Leaf design…

Technically, the traditional banner of Canadian nationhood is the Canadian Red Ensign (rather than the Union Jack…although the latter does appear within the former).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Red_Ensign

Joe is white cover for the Scary Stacey Abrams presidency. President Abrams will approach and perhaps eclipse the damage done by President Cheney.

I don’t believe Ms. Abrams will ever become Vice-President of the USA, let alone President. But if I’m wrong, and she does ascend to the Oval Office, there will be civil war. Or a coup. Or something. People will die. The USA may well cease to exist.

>It makes you wonder why the activists are so insistent that young trans kids transition before puberty. Hurry up, small one: Take these pills before your instincts awaken and tell you not to.

I’m fully in the “mutilating and brainwashing these kids” is insanity camp, but that is not their reason.

It’s because a bio-male makes a much less convincing trans-female once he’s undergone (or even started) puberty– stuff happens (e.g. voice and bone structure) that can’t be reversed.

I think a reasonable compromise would be to view it as just another form of optional cosmetic surgery, which is not covered by insurance. You want it? Pay for it out of your own pocket.

That is how it already is. But thanks for your forceful advocacy on behalf of the status quo.

This is what happens when you live in a world where there is only one permissible answer to any given question. Your argumentation skills atrophy. All they know how to do, is recite dogma.

Performing a sex “change” on anyone but an adult should be illegal.

Such mutilations should be unlawful in the USA, period. If one wants that surgery, one should be required to seek it overseas.

All those freak shows should be fired, and their jobs given to men with families.

THIS IS LIBRARY II: The Revenge!

I still haven’t seen a good reason why one should care about collapsing the simulation (“I like my life” doesn’t cut it imo).

My unironic position is that the simulation SHOULD be shut down.

Or at least that would be my position, if I thought we inhabited a simulation. A lot of clever arguments have been made for why that’s likely, but I feel confident those arguments will one day come to be known to have very little merit. Somehow, I’m reminded of Xeno’s Paradoxes.

“Human accomplishment, as proxied by the per capita incidence of great scientists and artists, also rises exponentially over the past 2,500 years, peaking in the late 19th century”

How can anyone equate artists with scientists?? Artists are just silly entertainers. Shakespeare was of no more value to the world than a great juggler.

In October 2017, a strange object appeared in the skies. ‘Oumuamua, or “scout” in Hawaiian, was the first confirmed interstellar object to pass through our Solar System….The recent discovery of the more typical 2I/Borisov suggests that interstellar visitors are far more common than previously thought.

Once is happenstance.

Twice is coincidence.

Three times is enemy action.

Is that Beto?

Why would you even ask that?!?

Of course it’s Beto.

Too much cross breeding with blacks. I’m not joking. Even back in the 90’s I knew of Native American women who lurve black men.

This is a real phenomenon both in terms of increased genetic admixture, and culture. There’s a big embrace of Negrotic ghetto/”hip-hop” culture in that community.

three of them–Klobuchar, Steyer, and Booker–did not receive any donations at all.

What it the Klobe’s perceived constituency? Biden voters who are too intersectional to actually vote for a White man?

Disclaimer: I predicted a Kamala Harris nomination years ago, so the putative prognosticating ability on display in 2016 may have merely been the result of a bullshitting blogger who got lucky!

A lot of smart people made the same mistake about Harris. It turns out that she just doesn’t have the political chops to be a contender at the national level. She’s kinda dumb, I think. And Tulsi Gabbard’s debate barbs were very effective. No one likes a hypocrite who throws people in prison for something they laugh about having also done themselves.

Looks like the China haters are really running out of excuses to bash China.

Do we really require “excuses” to oppose our, um, opponents?

Seems like it would come quite naturally.

If I were a gambling man I’d wager that Trump’s action is an effort to win Minnesota and Maine in 2020. Maine is probably unlikely, but in Minnesota he has a solid chance.

I suspect Trump will carry Minnesota, as well as the same 3/4 EVs in Maine that Hillary got last time. But he’ll still lose the single Electoral Vote for Maine’s District One. ME D1 is, electorally speaking, as lost a cause as Massachusetts.

It’s not that blacks, as a group, perform poorly because they falsely subscribe to the idea that studying is “acting white”; instead they saying doing well in school is “acting white” to cover for performing poorly.

I believe that’s largely correct. Although (as I have witnessed myself), there are individual Blacks who do have academic potential, and find themselves pressured to avoid conforming to perceived White norms. That’s undoubtedly a much smaller problem, but it does also exist.

I took my wife to see this last Saturday, and we both enjoyed it a lot. I’m going to go alone to see it a second time tomorrow morning, and really try to focus on the narrative ambiguities inherent to the film. I’ll let y’all know if I come up with anything interesting.

White propaganda somehow got into the little bigot’s head before he took his first breath. The only way to prevent this is to think of Critical Race Theory while you’re getting your wife pregnant.

That also helps to, you know, last longer….

I guess if a rebellion against anti-White, PC idiocy were to begin, a university called “Georgia Southern” is about as likely a place as any.

Uighurs are bad people. In July 2009, over 1,000+ Uighurs went on a rampage of murder against Chinese people in the city of Urumqi.

Maybe they just don’t like being ruled by the Chinese, and would prefer to have their own nation?

I remember that ruckus at the Diana Ross concert. Made the national news at the time.

I’m gonna guess that a 23-year-old black actor who loves Beyoncé has an additional, uh, dimension to his identity that might make his opinion a bit different from the average black fellow’s.

Yes, clearly his breakfasts consist of Fruit Loops.

Also, does ANY 23-year-old, irrespective of race or, uh, breakfast cereal taste preferences, regard “Beyoncé” as anything other than “that Black lady that grandma likes?”

Joker is set in 1981 (judging by Brian De Palma’s Blow Out playing in a movie theater)…

I noticed that as well. The other film also listed on that cinematic marquee, was ZORRO THE GAY BLADE, which was also a 1981 release. So that seems pretty definitive.

Wouldn’t it have been a lot more fun to have cast Stephen Colbert, and then watch his head get blown off?

LOL, you’ll get no argument from me on that point.

Excellent…everything is proceeding precisely as I had foreseen….

Lots of lefties think they are living through the early days of the next Nazi regime.

True.

This is because they are fools.

This is why I prefer my geometry to be non-Euclidian….

…I can no longer stand anything with the FOUL MOUTH Robert DeNiro…that over-the-hill bum…

I share your general assessment of De Niro. But as an actor, he is good in this film.

At least it’s fun to speculate about what the people who went in expecting an ordinary comicbook film were thinking

My wife was actually expecting something much closer to a conventional comic book film, but she has weird tastes (hence her decision to be married to yours truly), and so she was pleasantly surprised. I’ll bet some were decidedly not.

Richard Dawson as the game show host in The Running Man was outstanding

I agree that the casting of Dawson was outstanding. But that’s the only good thing I can say about that film, which is probably the worst cinematic adaptation of a King tale. And that is saying something!

In fairness, people who’ve never read THE RUNNING MAN, might not think the movie is that bad.

After seeing TROPIC THUNDER mocking expose of pop cultural pretensions…

I recall almost nothing about TROPIC THUNDER…other than the fact I thought it kinda sucked. But everyone else’s opinion is so uniformly favorable, that I really think I may need to give it another shot. I saw it when it first came out, and my taste in movies does seem to have improved since then. Or at least, today I would not watch some of the dreck I used to think was cool.

I would’ve liked to have seen Bryce Dallas Howard get Best Actress for THE VILLAGE.

I hold no brief for actual child molesters like Epstein…

I barely know who Jeffrey Epsteain even was. But is there any actual evidence he was a child molester? Having had intercourse with a young woman (age: 16), for example, doesn’t indicate one is a child molester. Every heterosexual man finds pretty 16-year old females to be attractive at some level. Child molesters are different from normal men. They want to fuck five-year-olds, for example. Epstein doesn’t seem to have been one of those, but perhaps I missed something.