Category: Commentary
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The Unstoppable War Machine
Did the producers at Netflix celebrate when the current U.S. President declared war (not war police action. Not police action, regime change. whatever) on Iran? You have to think one of them did, right? This is probably here nor there. The basic plotline: A soldier, still grieving the loss of his brother, takes part in…
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The Path Not Taken
Recently Disney released a trailer for The Mandalorean and Grogu. It looks fun, like good-humored family fare—a return to the 1940s serial aesthetic of The New Hope. It feels like they’ve crammed as much fan service as they could into a two-minute ad. From the opening shots that could have been lifted whole-cloth from previous…
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That’s a shame.
Kristi Noem out as Homeland Security secretary Her ouster comes after two contentious days of her testimony before Congress. Trump says Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin will take her place. Looks like Kristi was taken out back to the gravel pit this morning. Well, if anyone can match her for unbelievable fuck-wittery, it’s Markwayne Mullin. At…
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So long Star Trek, It’s been Nice.
I first watched Star Trek (now called The Original Series – TOS) with my father. He let me stay up to watch it. I was eight in 1966. We didn’t have a color TV then, so the crew’s yellow, red, and blue costumes and all the colorful blinking lights were lost on us. All those…
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Wheee! Strip Mining the moon!
For thousands of years young lovers looked up and found romance beneath the full moon. Now they’ll have to make do with the sarred, skid-marked face of the man in the moon staring back. enshittification on a planetray scale. Whee.
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So uh…
Wouldn’t that make Trump the Antichist? Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”
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The Case for Astrology
Rational people will tell you that Astrology is bullshit. Astrology lovers will tell you it can be a profoundly accurate way to determine character traits in people and predict how they’ll respond to upcoming events. Rational people will respond with something like, the stars that make up the astrological signs are so far away their…