Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

All hail the time of the bunny!

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

We still have time to mess this up!

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

This really is a full service blog.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

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… And yet, Rih Sanctorum is still in better shape than some of his fellow contendahs, per the Washington Post:

Thirteen Republican presidential campaigns had started the week in a kind of solidarity, brainstorming ideas to make the cable news debates more fair. They ended the week in pathos and disarray, after Fox Business announced that two candidates would be shunted from prime time to an “undercard” debate, and two mainstays of the undercard debate would not make it to the Nov. 10 forum at all.

The campaigns of Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, in the unique position of being booted from the main stage, responded through gritted teeth…

But Christie and Huckabee would at least appear on television. The campaign of Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), who had been roundly praised for his performances in the CNN and CNBC “undercards,” was dumbfounded at the decision to cut him out of Tuesday’s forum…

Former New York governor George Pataki also didn’t qualify for either debate.

The gripe of every sidelined campaign was that, in a year when pollsters have been caught short in race after race, national polling has been prioritized over state polling to cast the televised debates. In averages of New Hampshire polls, Christie has climbed ahead of Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.); in Iowa polls, Huckabee and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, had more support than Gov. John Kasich (Ohio). Yet Kasich and Paul would appear in prime time, while the much-liked Graham would stay home…

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Apart from more of this year’s bumper crop of schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?

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  2. 2.

    BGinCHI

    Hello?

    Anybody awake?

    /makes a sandwich, pour a glass of red wine, surfs for a good noir from the 40s or 50s

  4. 4.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @BGinCHI: Noir films are so great to see. The lighting, the sets…

    What happened in the 1970s? Did they fire all the lighting directors? Television shows and movies had flat lighting, no interesting shadows, no composition. I found it so depressing.

    Now the pendulum seems to have swung back to dramatic lighting.

  11. 11.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @raven: I guess I was talking mostly about commercial films and tv dramas. The flat look.

    The films mentioned in A Decade Under The Influence are some of my favorites. And I sort of have a grudge against the big studios who decided that blockbusters like Star Wars or Indiana Jones were the wave of the future. Yes, those blockbusters are fun, but too many small films got squashed and were never encouraged.

  14. 14.

    Amir Khalid

    I don’t understand what the candidates are complaining about. Every game show has elimination rounds. Why should this one be different?

    The campaigns of Gov. Chris Christie (N.J.) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, in the unique position of being booted from the main stage, responded through gritted teeth…

    Tsk, tsk, Washington Post. If it happened to two candidates, their position is not unique.

  16. 16.

    amk

    sick rantorum has taken on isis and iran? news to me.

    cnbc ass kissers suddenly becoming teh librul media is hilarious.

  19. 19.

    Another Holocene Human

    @amk: if he took on ISIS the way he took on the American Taxpayer (on behalf of Accuweather), expect total defeat any day now

  20. 20.

    Another Holocene Human

    Signal boosting this story. One single fire is wiping out all your carbon “credits” from last year:

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/30/indonesia-fires-disaster-21st-century-world-media

    It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.

  22. 22.

    Another Holocene Human

    Did Ben Carson really attack his mama? Or is this his “rebellious against parents” “witness” from before he was “saved”?

    He’s already admitted to fibbing once about these “witness” stories. I suspect they play really well to the intended audience. They want to believe that secular people are just out of control, hence the need for Jeebus. If secular people were loving and calm and law abiding, it would almost seem like all that authoritarian Jezus control weren’t necessary.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    In another glaring example of the media’s establishment bias, I was not invited to tonight’s Democratic forum with Rachel Maddow. Harrumph.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    Tommy, I don’t know if this is on your to-do list, but AL’s tweet embeds appear as block quote for me in Firefox. They look normal on the mobile site.

  25. 25.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: Firefox is the work of Satan, it’s even got fire in the name; hell’s fire.

    @Baud: You just wanted to meet Rachel.

  26. 26.

    Germy Shoemangler

    What strange times we live in. I’m watching a clip of Carson being interviewed. And this is how he defends himself: “I did TOO try to stab someone when I was a kid. And I DID try to hit my mom with a hammer. You think I’m lying???”

  27. 27.

    Aleta

    @Mustang Bobby: I have now ! I like it. Have read you elsewhere too. Btw the photo of the turquoise blue mustang convertible — my relative has-had one (she just died) — a 67 I think. I rode in it many times in California, so wonderfully comfy and cool. Great days.

  33. 33.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Baud: When you win the nomination and the general election, do you plan on bringing any of the front-pagers into your administration?

  34. 34.

    JPL

    @Germy Shoemangler: He said to Kelly, do you think I’m a pathological liar, like CNN does?
    We should do a poll… If you don’t think Carson is a liar, please comment and explain why?

  39. 39.

    Patricia Kayden

    @JPL: Don’t think Carson’s supporters care whether or not he’s a pathological liar. I’ve already heard Rightwingers claim that criticisms of Carson are “racist”. These are the same people claiming that President Obama is from Kenya and holding signs showing him with a bone through his nose. Sigh.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    re: Graham. This is not good news for John McCain.

    @Baud

    Actually got off the duff and sent in a question for Maddow to ask. No doubt whatsoever it won’t be.

    @raven

    Ah, the Edsel. The original boomerang-shaped rear tail lights alone are a case study in corporate blindness.

    When right turn signal blinked, the arrow design of the tail light pointed left. And vice versa.

    (Remember when people used turn signals?)

  54. 54.

    amk

    So after all the heavy promo (and the snarling dogfights), what exactly the improvements are we seeing in windows10 bj 3.0(?) ?

  55. 55.

    Baud

    @amk: It does seem to load faster for me on my browser.

    ETA: There were a couple of days early on when it was slow, but those problems seem to be fixed.

  56. 56.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Yeah. Rachel is slowly morphing into the 21st century Barbara Walters when it comes to directly questioning politicians .

  57. 57.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @amk:

    …what exactly the improvements are we seeing…

    “Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.”

    Six Million Dollar Balloon-Juice |

  60. 60.

    JPL

    @Patricia Kayden: Joseph and the silos, might do more damage, than stories about his past. I do find it interesting, that MSM is spending more time questioning his honesty, rather than his repulsive Nazi comparisons.

  61. 61.

    Germy Shoemangler

    headline:
    Disney & Lucasfilm Grant Dying Man’s Wish to See Star Wars 7

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an eight-year-old boy named Daniel Fleetwood discovered Star Wars and fell in love. Unfortunately, a battle with a rare cancer 24 years later left him unsure if he would live long enough to see the release of the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December.

    Daniel’s wife Ashley tried to bring some enjoyment to what might be his final days, helping to spread the word about the #ForceForDaniel movement in hopes of convincing Disney and Lucasfilm to let Daniel see the movie early. Disney responded, granting Daniel’s final wish and letting him be the first fan to see an unedited cut of the film.

    http://screenrant.com/star-wars-force-awakens-last-wish-daniel-fleetwood/

  63. 63.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @JPL: I think Carson’s pointy silo theory will hurt him. The pyramids as tombs is such widespread knowledge that pretty much everybody is startled by hearing Carson. It’s hard for a candidate to survive being widely laughed at.

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @amk: You can always ask Cole, I’m sure he would be more than happy to explain to you all the ways his blog has been improved.

  65. 65.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @NotMax: I love seeing Hoagy Carmichael show up as a musician/character actor in films like this. Recently, I was switching channels and saw the old western tv show “Laramie” and there he was, an old man pouring coffee for cowboys.

    Is there any present-day equivalent to him? Someone who writes great songs and does little acting jobs on the side?

    All I can think of is Lady Gaga in American Horror Story.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    Fixed (no edit function).

    BGinCHI

    Evidence?

    Following her since Air America days.

    She’s signed on to the HMS Don’t Rock The Boat. Maybe not lock, stock and barrel, but the barrel is wobbling.

    OT:

    To Have and Have Not on TCM right now. Is Lauren Bacall’s checkered, sprayed on suit not sexy or what?

  69. 69.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @Baud: Harrumph indeed! I saw your offer of a position in your cabinet on open thread a few back! As long as I can take the position from Australia, do very little with it and continue to tweet snark about anti-immigrant assholes I’m on board. Baud/Baud 2016

  70. 70.

    NotMax

    @Germy Shoemangler

    There was Carmichael, Xavier Cugat and Oscar Levant. Can’t come up with a modern equivalent.

    A favorite Hoagy Carmichael number (can’t zero in on the movie clip wherein he performed it atm.).

  73. 73.

    Manyakitty

    Does anyone know if there’s going to be a calendar this year? Historically, the deadline has been around now.

  79. 79.

    JPL

    Jobs report 271,000 and unemployment at 5 percent
    The average hourly wage paid to American workers rose 0.4% in October and posted the strongest 12-month gain since mid-2009.

    Suck on that Romney

  80. 80.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    The state dept of ed should be prosecuted for that application. “Ohio has no poor-performing charter schools”. That’s a blatant lie, they put it on the application for federal funding, and the state chief signed the application. Nearly every paragraph has either an easily disprovable lie or an inaccuracy. The husband of Kasich’s current campaign manager put it together. Richard Ross should resign for signing off on it.

    They tried to defraud the federal government to receive federal funding. They should lose the grant and there should be an investigation, with a look-back to every other federal grant the “school choice” office has received. I think it’s embarrassing for the federal government, too. Most of the lies are public records. They could literally sit at their desks in DC and vet that application by using nothing more than online “school report cards” and the Ohio Dept of Ed website. Apparently no one bothered before shipping out 71 million dollars.

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    @Germy Shoemangler

    One of the traditions at the summer camp where I was employed was for the kids to inscribe their names somewhere inside their cabin.

    Fred Rogers was a camper there only one year – 1939 – and yet his inscription lived on.

  84. 84.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Good examples of modern-day singers and songwriters who act in films. Thanks everyone.

    Going back into history, I just thought of Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) who did some songwriting and was a character actor and voice actor.

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    UH HUH
    UH HUH

    …………………….

    Personnel records show years of complaints against officer

    FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois police officer who staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered had a troubled job history, ranging from numerous suspensions to sexual harassment allegations to complaints that he intimidated an emergency dispatcher with guns, according to his personnel records.

    Despite a reputation as a respected youth mentor, Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz also had problems off the job, including one incident in which a sheriff’s deputy found him passed out in his truck and took him home, only to have Gliniewicz report his truck stolen the next day, according to documents in the file.

    The records were released late Thursday by the Village of Fox Lake in response to a Freedom of Information request, after a day in which officials said Gliniewicz had sought out a hit man to kill a village administrator he feared would expose him as a thief, and may have planned to plant cocaine on the administrator to discredit her as a criminal.

    The image of Gliniewicz that’s emerged in recent days stands in stark contrast to the hero’s funeral and outpouring of community support after his death in September.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/personnel-records-show-years-of-complaints-against-officer/ar-BBmTTiG?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=HPCDHP

  86. 86.

    debbie

    @Kay:

    Ross should be prosecuted. He should sit in prison waiting for President Kasich to pardon him.

    Actually, I am hoping Kasich is asked about this on the campaign trail, specifically how allowing this to happen and then refusing to do any kind of investigation fits into his resumé of shining excellence.

  87. 87.

    rikyrah

    Latest Fox Poll:

    1. Donald Trump: 26% (up two points since mid-October)
    2. Ben Carson: 23% (unchanged)
    3. Ted Cruz: 11% (up one point)
    3. Marco Rubio: 11% (up two points)
    5. Jeb Bush: 4% (down four points)
    5. John Kasich: 4% (up three points)
    5. Rand Paul: 4% (up one point)
    5. Mike Huckabee: 4% (down one point)

  88. 88.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Kay:

    They could literally sit at their desks in DC and vet that application by using nothing more than online “school report cards” and the Ohio Dept of Ed website

    They probably would have been the subject of a Congressional investigation if they did that, and I’m only being slightly snarky.

  89. 89.

    Baud

    @rikyrah:

    Ironically and sadly, his family would have been better off if he had just committed suicide without the attempted deception.

  90. 90.

    Punchy

    @rikyrah: But that’s unpossible. Cops are our heroes, or so I’ve been told. Again and again. NYPD BALLCAPS! Blue Lives Matter, even when they’re crooked and dangerous

  91. 91.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    Ross should be prosecuted. He should sit in prison waiting for President Kasich to pardon him.

    He’s an amiable dope. The sheer panic he showed when Ohio newspapers starting demanding emails made me cringe. He’s no more running that agency than I am. There’s a signature page in the application where he attests that it’s “true and accurate”. He either didn’t read the application or deliberately set out to defraud the feds.

    Kasich is never going to be asked about his promotion of this corrupt billion dollar money laundering racket they have going because charter schools are bipartisan, which means there’s no political gain to either side questioning it. The last person who even attempted to sue on behalf of the state was Richard Cordray. He joined a lawsuit against White Hat when he was the AG, on behalf of the state.

  97. 97.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @beth: Ha! You’re right, I forgot about him. Didn’t Harry Connick Jr. play a serial killer in a movie?

  99. 99.

    rikyrah

    This U.S. city has become the first to elect a Muslim-majority city council

    Hamtramck, a historically Polish-Catholic enclave of Detroit, rose to national prominence more than a decade ago when its city council gave permission to a mosque to broadcast its call to prayer from speakers on its roof.

    At the time, opponents were angered by what they saw as an intrusion of Islamic practice onto a public space. The city council’s approval of an ordinance to allow mosques to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer onto public streets made it one of the few cities in the United States to approve the practice, according to a 2004 story in the Detroit News. “This is about uniting our community,” Shabad Ahmed, the first and only Muslim member of the Hamtramck City Council, told the newspaper.

    Fast forward to 2015, when the city of some 22,000 people physically surrounded by but politically separate from Detroit has elected a Muslim-majority city council, believed to be the first in the nation. On Tuesday, the city elected six city council members, four of Muslim faith.

    Hamtramck was originally settled by Germans, but Polish-Catholic immigrants flooded into the area when the Dodge Brothers plant opened in 1914. At that time, Irish and German Catholics dominated the Detroit political scene, so Poles gravitated to Hamtramck.

    But the Muslim population in Hamtramck has grown steadily due to immigration, said University of Michigan-Dearborn associate professor Sally Howell, who has written a book on Michigan and U.S. Muslims. Dearborn has many Arab-American immigrants, but Hamtramck likely became the first city to have a Muslim-majority population in 2013. She estimates that about 50 percent of the city is made up of Muslims, and the city has at least seven mosques, more mosques per capita than anywhere else in the country.

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-us-city-has-become-the-first-to-elect-a-muslim-majority-city-council/ar-BBmSGJm?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=HPCDHP

  103. 103.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @debbie: Another artist I hadn’t thought of.

    What’s weird is that sometimes the singer/songwriters are more memorable in films than the professional actors.

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    Dan Diamond ‏@ddiamond 32m32 minutes ago
    The U.S. gained 271,000 jobs in October — and 45,000 of them were in health care.
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    Dan Diamond
    ‏@ddiamond
    Jobs report also revised up August and September numbers — so basically, today’s report had 61,000 “new” health care jobs.

  115. 115.

    MomSense

    @Another Holocene Human:

    I’m glad you posted this. Sometimes I feel like I am having a panic party of one about climate change and what is happening right now in Indonesia.

    Yesterday when I was downtown and bumping into acquaintances I casually asked people about the fires like we usually ask each other about the weather. No one knew anything about it. I know anecdata is not the plural of anecdote but these are not people who hide from the news. This disaster is being completely ignored.

  118. 118.

    Paul in KY

    @beth: Should have thought of Leto! Saw 30 Seconds to Mars at Voodoo fest. Jared was dressed up like Jesus or a pope (couldn’t figure out which).

  120. 120.

    Felonius Monk

    @Germy Shoemangler: What’s weird is that sometimes the singer/songwriters are more memorable in films than the professional actors.

    Bob Dylan in “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”

    (Can’t put the link up because the f*ckng LINK button has disappeared — Oh, Tommy)

  134. 134.

    Kay

    @debbie:

    “I just heard on the radio that Ross is resigning at the end of the year.”

    That’s a shame. Now we’ll never get an investigation into why he signed off on a fraudulent grant application. Have you noticed no one at the top in ed reform is ever held accountable? Third graders are held accountable. Teachers are held accountable. The managers and leaders? Never.

  135. 135.

    The Pale Scot

    @NotMax:
    ” (Remember when people used turn signals?) ”

    I believe that when cars are shipped into or the registration is changed to FL the Wee People appear and remove the fuses that control the turn signal lights.

    Apparently they haven’t got to my car yet, I’m starting to worry that They have marked me for The Wild Hunt by leaving my turn signals functional. If you hear the baying of hounds and a feel a compulsion to join them Betty, run away!

    And apparently the Wee Folk have absconded with the comments buttons.

    The Wild Hunt
    http://www.irishabroad.com/Blogs/PostView.aspx?pid=4391

  136. 136.

    Cervantes

    @Amir Khalid:

    Not sure what that has to do with the WAPo misusing the word unique.

    Compare usage of “unique” and “alone” in the two cases. Why is one “misusing” and the other not?

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    @debbie:
    @Kay:

    “I just heard on the radio that Ross is resigning at the end of the year.”

    That’s a shame. Now we’ll never get an investigation into why he signed off on a fraudulent grant application.

    Probably why, hmmm? And just before New Hampshire. Such timing. Kasich can just say “but he’s resigning. Next question?”

  146. 146.

    Germy Shoemangler

    The little pill-shaped thing on the right side of my monitor that shows me where I am on a page when I’m scrolling down is… invisible.

    It reappears when I reach the bottom, where the dark gray is, but gee, I like to know when I’m scrolling down if I’m close to the end or way at the top.

  147. 147.

    rikyrah

    And, exactly, who is Unca Ben appealing to?

    hmmmmmmmm……………..

    ……………….

    Ben Carson Appeals to Black Voters, but His Campaign Doesn’t, Yet
    By JONATHAN MARTIN
    NOV. 5, 2015

    WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — Sam Hawkins Jr. said he came to a rally here last week for the Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson because he finds Mr. Carson’s social conservatism appealing, relishes his newness to politics and believes that President Obama “sold out for the vote” in supporting same-sex marriage.

    …………………

    Mr. Carson, a retired doctor who recently surged to first place in some national polls, is trying to solidify his lead in the volatile race for the Republican presidential nomination. To do so, his campaign is eyeing a group of voters who are traditionally scarce in Republican primaries but who could give him added support the other candidates are unlikely to draw: African-Americans, such as Mr. Hawkins.

    …………..

    He could do something for the country that has not been done for a long time: give American blacks an option in the primary,” said Armstrong Williams, Mr. Carson’s closest adviser, referring to black voters’ habit of largely participating only in Democratic politics.

    Yet if Mr. Carson’s potential for bringing black voters into the Republican primary illustrates a unique possibility, his efforts to win them over highlight his limitations as a candidate. Though he raised over $20 million during the third quarter of this year and primary votes will be cast in less than three months, his campaign operation has not caught up to his standing in the race. He has, for example, yet to hire a staff member dedicated to turning out black voters.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/us/politics/ben-carson-black-voters-republican-primary.html?rref=politics&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Politics&pgtype=Blogs

  152. 152.

    debbie

    @Elizabelle:

    I don’t think he can say that because he’s been saying Charters are Excellent! all along. Even acknowledging the resignation would be acknowledging that his pronouncements are bogus.

    If you know much about Kasich, you know he’ll hem, haw, stutter his way through a circular, tangential, nonsense kind of response which will only make things worse. He’ll also have to lose his temper in the process.

  154. 154.

    Applejinx

    @MomSense: No shit it is. Look at who benefits.

    Right around the time the TPP is coming forth to allow corporations to overrule entire countries and what laws they might have, we’ve got Indonesia burning because there’s profit to be made in torching forest to replant it as palm oil plantations, and nobody gives a fuck that the climate change we have ALREADY leads to the fires being monstrous out of control things. I guess it’s a matter of hey, more climate change, more possibility for wildfires, more acreage available for planting, no blame!

    Who benefits? Massive multinational corporations wanting to do business with Indonesian suppliers of stuff like palm oil that just fell off a truck somewhere. Pepsi, Starbucks, aren’t starting the fires, just as NRA board members aren’t going out and doing mass shootings. They don’t have to. The ‘climate’ is being created in a way that directly benefits them, so what they’re going to do is go all in on efforts to make sure they can FULLY capitalize on the inevitable result.

    Consider how TPP allows Pepsi to prevent Indonesia from banning (for instance) use of burned lands to make palm oil plantations. To do that would be to interfere with the profits of palm oil exporters and would damage Starbucks and Pepsi, among other multinational corporations.

    THAT is why you’ll never hear about the Indonesian fires. The obvious thing to a normal person might be, “durr the rainforests are burning and getting made into plantations? Well ban making them into plantations and hope they regrow into rainforests!”. And Pepsi cannot allow that to happen…

  155. 155.

    Felonius Monk

    @jeffreyw:

    If you are running Firefox, this extension is a real help at times like these.

    Unfortunately, this does not work with latest version of Firefox.

  157. 157.

    Mike G

    “I’ve taken on ISIS and Iran. They know who I am…”

    ISIS: “Oh yeah, that American clown who’s a bigoted, social-reactionary asshole just like us, except Christian.”

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    Ok, how about all those musicians in the Blues Brothers movie(s). The whole film was acted by musicians, and I bet they all got paid well and receive residuals every time that sucker get air time.

    What a great show! Drama, acting, and great, great music.

    Also, Bette Midler, acting in Young Frankenstein, what a beauty! And she can sing and act.

    I’m not a big film goer. Mrs J likes it, but I can’t get her to pick a movie so I can take her out. My taste runs to explosions and heist movies, and crazed SciFi stuff.

    By the way, the latest William Gibson novel is great. Hard to follow at first, but once you figure out that there’s a lot going on in the background (and what it is going on back there) it comes together well.

  160. 160.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:
    Well the charter school movement is after all a corporate/MBA money grab. Why should the top people get prosecuted for anything, aren’t they are supposed to be our gods?

  162. 162.

    The Lodger

    Nobody mentioned Sting yet. There’s probably a good reason for ignoring Dune, but he was great in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

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