“No one has a playbook in politics for shooting down UFOs that are not aliens.”
“Bill Watterson, the creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is releasing a dark and adult graphic novel later this year.”
“After years of Marvel and Star Wars movies and shows inundating screens big and small, Disney is putting the brakes on the output of some of its biggest franchises and brands”.
RIP, Richard Belzer, comedian and actor best known for Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
“NASA isn’t announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life. But if the last two weeks show anything, it’s if the agency ever breaks such news, the world may have trouble understanding.”
RIP, Barbara Bosson, actor best known for Hill Street Blues, Murder One, and the immortal Cop Rock.
“Kevin McCarthy makes sensitive security footage available to the insurrectionists’ propagandist”.
RIP, Hugh Harris, known as “The Voice of NASA” for his time as public affairs officer there.
RIP, B.J. “Red” McCombs, San Antonio businessman and former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, who brought that franchise to town before they joined the NBA.
Yes indeed, let them fight.
“It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals.”
“Let’s just get this out of the way: the Hays Code was awful. It was sexist, racist, homophobic nonsense that set film back decades and reinforced a lot of cruel moralizing that weakened the gaps between art and faith, thus ensuring decades of culture war bullshit. It baffles me that I even have to say this in 2023. Anyone who knows anything about the history of Hollywood is well aware of how the code caused so much damage to the art form of cinema. Yet a tedious strain of online scorn and politically tangled discourse has seen way too many people acting as though what pop culture needs in the 21st century is a return to mandated puritanism.”
“As privilege discourse has attempted to trundle on over the past few years, it has really stagnated. We circle back over the same ground constantly, but don’t spend much time discussing what a good life truly means, who is getting what they want out of the world, and which of us is really enjoying ourselves. Who are life’s winners, in other words, and who are the losers.”
“Isn’t it comforting to have your worst suspicions confirmed?”
Assholes of a feather flock together.
“I have studied the Soviet and the Russian economy for over four decades. I believe there are four reasons the sky has yet not fallen in on the Russian economy.”
RIP, Duangphet Phromthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave after a weekslong operation that drew global attention in 2018.
“Ten Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2023″.
This will be the final season of Succession, so enjoy it while you still can.
What would be the most comforting is to see appropriate negative consequences for dishonest, bad faith actions. What ever damages Dominion is seeking ought to be upped by an order of magnitude.