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“woke” is the new caravan.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Books are my comfort food!

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Let me file that under fuck it.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

So many bastards, so little time.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

No one could have predicted…

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: President SF Geek

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There were twenty-four recipients of the 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal today, but Politico knows which one will really excite its readers:

President Barack Obama let his inner “Star Wars” nerd out on Wednesday when he honored its creator George Lucas at the White House…

When it was his turn, Lucas got a big smile and a big hug from the president, according to pool reports.

“I remember when I first saw ‘Star Wars,'” Obama said in his opening. “There’s a whole generation that thinks special effects always looked like they do today. But it used to be you’d see, like, the string on the little model spaceships.”…

Video at the link (sorry, can’t embed).

And for (fanboi) bipartisanship, Politico also shared the political opinion another iconic leader:

“Star Trek” star Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock on the sci-fi show, wants to see immigration reform succeed.

The actor shared his thoughts on the issue via Twitter on Tuesday.

“Is it possible we’ll get immigration reform ? Done in the Senate. Up to the house to get millions out of the shadows. LLAP,” he wrote. “Creating a path for immigrants to become taxpayers is logical. LLAP”…

The White House noticed Nimoy’s observations and retweeted him in agreement.


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What’s on the agenda for another sultry summer evening?

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  4. 4.

    Yatsuno

    So the reason why I’ve been so active today is my system at work is kaput. I’ve been sitting here doing nothing and my day ain’t half-over yet. At least I get paid the same.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Sorry, the Ferengi/Pakled hybrids that are the teatards don’t do logic.

    To switch universes: Wipe them out. All of them.

  9. 9.

    lamh35

    AL, i can’t believe I missed your movie thread over the weekend. I was visiting fam in NOLA and never even bothered with checking out the blogs.

    Anyway, I saw Despicable Me: 2 and it was pretty funny. The godKid and nephew loved it.

    Also, I’ve officially become obsessed with Pacific Rim…lol. I’m def gonna see it and gonna bring my nephew and godsons. I’ve only listed positive reviews, but even the negative reviews are not “worst-movie ever” worthy ratings.

    BTW, I really miss Roger Ebert right about now. Some of these critics are obviously just “too cool for school” and seem to have contempt for the movie-goers they are supposed to be advising…bleh.

    Pacific Rim Reviews (Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes): Top Critics: 60% Fresh, All Critics 76% Fresh!

    ‏@pattonoswalt 17h

    Saw PACIFIC RIM earlier today. It’s all right if you’re into movies that are awesome and gut-punch you with brilliance.

    Washington Times: MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Pacific Rim’ 3 1/2 stars

    LA Times: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Del Toro makes magic with monsters

    Hollywood Reporter: Pacific Rim: Film Review; A better-and-smarter-than-average humans-vs.-monsters spectacular.

  11. 11.

    Neddie Jingo

    Had to stare quite a while at that “LLAP” before I finally twigged.

    These youngsters and their Internetty initialisms. Where will it end?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    @raven:

    Pouring again!

    I got sprinkled on today. That may not sound like much to you, but it’s anything but par for the course for July in Southern California.

  14. 14.

    Heliopause

    Let’s straighten a few things out about Star Wars Episode IV. It wasn’t nearly the special effects breakthrough as is generally portrayed. A number of films with effects about as good had already been released. What Lucas achieved with Episode IV was clever filmmaking, not breakthrough effects; on a limited budget he got the audience to think it was seeing more and better effects than they really were. Sadly, Lucas decided to go a different direction with the subsequent movies, filling every millimeter of screen, pointlessly, with as many expensive effects as he could manage.

    Creating a path for immigrants to become taxpayers is logical.

    Yes it is. Spending tens of billions on border nazification is not. Sad to say but it’s a good thing the current incarnation of the bill is doomed.

  16. 16.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Heliopause:

    Spending tens of billions on border nazification is not.

    You mean “The Border Surge,” a conservative immigration plan, as an ad running on Fox News called it when I was at the gym this week?

  17. 17.

    Fax Paladin

    If we’re Trekonyming, I would think “IDIC” would be more appropriate… but, then, from the Wikipedia article just linked, it looks like Nimoy might have considered that to be more marketing ploy than anything else, even given how much the fans latched onto the philosophy.

  20. 20.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    When it was his turn, Lucas got a big smile and a big hug from the president…

    And then a punch in the junk for Episode I.

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    There are some nice heavyweight names on that list of recipients. Renee Fleming, Frank Deford, Anna Deveare Smith…

  24. 24.

    PeterJ

    Lucas can go DIAF after what he did to the original trilogy, making the prequel trilogy, and then selling it all to Disney.

  25. 25.

    mdblanche

    @Hal: Card is a Mormon wingnut. Supposedly one of his newer Ender novels contains a multipage rant against abortion (I wouldn’t know; I gave up reading it halfway through the first chapter) and he had a major sad last year when Flip Whatshisface won the Republican nomination and the public face of his religion became a semihuman etch-a-sketch with the stink of loser on him. I’m just wondering how they’re going to film the nude fight scene in the showers and why Card wrote something like that in the first place.

  26. 26.

    lamh35

    @catclub: of course not, I’m a serious movie goer!!! How dare you suggest otherwise…

    Ooh just got a instagram with more Idris pics…be back…lol

  27. 27.

    Gravenstone

    @mdblanche:

    I’m just wondering how they’re going to film the nude fight scene in the showers and whyhow Card wrote something like that in the first place.

    At a guess, one handed.

  28. 28.

    Ted & Hellen

    “Moon” is a great movie.

    Sam Rockwell is a great actor. Which is why he doesn’t get the recognition his talent deserves.

    But never mind all that, isn’t the president dreamy?

  29. 29.

    Narcissus

    @Gravenstone: For real Ender’s Game would make a fantastic porno

    Buncha naked hot twinks wrestling in the shower and stuff

    I was really surprised when I found out Card was a bigot

  30. 30.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    Has anyone checked Spock’s green card? It says right here he’s an alien!

  31. 31.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Has anyone checked Spock’s green card?

    Green card, hell! All they need to do is check his green blood.

  32. 32.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    I read the last line as

    What’s on the agenda for another slutty summer evening?

    and thought perhaps Anne Laurie leads a much less boring life than I do.

  33. 33.

    Chyron HR

    @Ted & Hellen:

    “Moon” is a great movie.

    Apparently you aren’t aware that the moon base (and oning-clay) was just more of that fake science that enrages you so.

  38. 38.

    RaflW

    This evening was (finally!) of the non-sultry variety. Very lucky to have been invited to a 2/5 hour houseboat ride on the “wild and scenic” St Croix river (runs along the MN-WI border northeast of the Twin Cities).
    Wild and scenic is it’s official designation, though La Bachman and (more annoyingly) Al Franken have kinda pissed on the designation to get some godawful bridge federally approved. Anyway, we were miles north of where that desecration will happen.
    It was glorious! Low humidity and about 75 degrees. Ahhhhhhhhhh.

  39. 39.

    SectionH

    There’s nothing new about Obama being a fan of some sort. Or some sorts. What pisses me off is that it’s supposed to be weird or something.

    Anyway, ALL: next BJ meet-up in the Boston area around Boskone, perhaps? Needn’t be near the actual convention.

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