Here’s hoping 2017 doesn’t suck.
Hey, remember that movie where Sinbad played a genie? No, you don’t, because it doesn’t exist. But some people insist that it does anyway.
Don’t pay ransomware. There’s a better way.
The most egregiously George Lucas-ass names in baseball.
“All of the condescension of which liberals have been accused can’t begin to match the condescension of the current storyline that Trump voters are too disenfranchised or despised or dismissed to be held morally responsible for their choices. It’s an insult to these salt-of-the-earth types, we’re told, to think they acted out of racism. You must understand, the pundits say: They resent being told they are dinosaurs, they fear their lifestyle is passing away.”
“Democrats should set an agenda around work with four key goals: reduce inequality by making sure workers are taking more money home in their paychecks; honor the centrality of work in American society and tie uplifting policies to work; increase workers’ power in the workplace, whether or not they are unionized; and provide gains to workers that are easy to identify and understand.”
RIP, George Michael, pop star and former Wham! frontman. Jesus, 2016.
“If corrective facts only make matters worse, what can we do to convince people of the error of their beliefs?”
RIP, George Irving, Tony-winning stage, TV, and voice actor.
RIP, Carrie Fisher, actor, author, Princess Leia, all-around badass.
RIP, Vera Rubin, groundbreaking astrophysicist who discovered evidence of dark matter.
RIP, Richard Adams, author best known for “Watership Down”. Seriously, 2016 can suck it.
“In our current Wild West news landscape where the Internet and social media have eliminated gatekeepers and eroded confidence in once-trusted sources, there is only so much hand-holding a journalist can do to ensure the public is informed. If the public is duped by fake news or irritated by what news has become, it shares in the blame.”
I have an extended family member who works in the Justice Department. These are very dark days for people like him, and it’s only going to get much, much worse.
How journalists covered the rise of Mussolini and Hitler.
“Then lay off the superlatives, because SpaceX probably had both a better, and worse, 2016 than you.”
RIP, Debbie Reynolds, star of stage and screen, and Carrie Fisher’s mother. I can’t even.
In addition to everything else, the year 2016 was one second longer than 2015. You just knew it, didn’t you?
RIP, LaVell Edwards, Hall of Fame coach of BYU football, the last non-Power 5 school to win a national championship.
The Crew of Chewbaccus holds a Princess Leia tribute parade:
http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/12/chewbacchus_princess_leia_trib.html
Gotta love NOLA.