Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

This fight is for everything.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Nothing worth doing is easy.

In my day, never was longer.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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  2. 2.

    Ridnik Chrome

    Just saw the new Star Wars, and it was so amazing that after I left the theater I walked from Union Square all the way to Grand Central Station in order to come back down to earth. And I’m someone who only ever saw the very first Star Wars, back when it came out…

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    Suzanne

    Just got home from seeing “The Big Short”. Good movie, though upsetting, of course. Had that shaky camera work that makes me feel like I’m gonna hurl. Back is still hurting from falling. God. I’m old.

    Cleaning out my pantry tomorrow. WOOT.

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    NotMax

    Savoring seconds of what turned out to be the best meal of the year, accompanied by a more than good bottle of wine.

    Scintillatingly succulent.

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Suzanne:

    God. I’m old.

    Ah, get back to me about that old stuff when you get to be my age, or better yet efgoldman’s age. Jebus, do I need to load or give you my walker?

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    The part of this job I hate the most is having to call someone at 2am to tell them that an alarm has gone off that he needs to come in and take a look at. That goes double if it’s an alarm that we both know is just a sensor error because it’s gone off four times in the last week; triple if it’s Terry Wilson that I have to call out.

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    Thoughtful David

    @Suzanne:

    that shaky camera work that makes me feel like I’m gonna hurl.

    Yeah, I don’t get this technique. It’s totally annoying and very distracting, and all the rage. I haven’t figured it out, but I’m guessing that directors think it makes their film look “less refined” and therefore “more realistic.” But it doesn’t. Don’ they realize that to a person as you walk around, although your head moves and maybe even jerks around, to you the world looks stationary. It never looks like it’s jiggling or bouncing, even if you’re running up stairs.

    To get the world to jiggle or bounce, you have to work at it. Little kids discover how to do it, by placing their chin on the window frame of a moving car, but to the rest of us, the world doesn’t seem to bounce or jerk.

    In a movie or show where the camera is bouncing around it is just a distraction that takes your mind away from the story and starts making you think about camera technique. Which out to be the LAST thing a director wants you to be thinking about.

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    The Pale Scot

    I logged into BBC iPlayer for the first time in a while and have discovered something wonderful;

    A new episode of Sherlock is playing on New Year’s Day, And the 4th season of Luther started up a couple of weeks ago.

    I thought I Idris was done with Luther

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    Doug R

    @Thoughtful David: Your brain actually automatically compensates for your head and eye motions which is one reason the world looks so shakey when you’re impaired. J j Abrams has a technique where he shakes the camera in opposition to his camera operator. The natural reaction to the external forces makes the motion more realistic and less distracting.

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    Doug R

    @mclaren: I think you and my wife saw the same picture. I don’t know what you guys were expecting, the first star wars was a fun space opera, I know I wasn’t expecting citizen Kane.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @Thoughtful David: I think what they’re trying to replicate is not the experience of being on the scene, but the experience of watching a documentary or investigative news report shot with a shaky hand-held camera. A different type of artificial framing.

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    Matt McIrvin

    …I remember thinking the same sort of thing when I saw the opening miniseries of the revived Battlestar Galactica: the space shots in that made a lot of use of ostentatiously jerky zooming, finite depth of field and slightly delayed changes in focal plane, as if the scene were being shot by a camera operator who was being surprised by the action and winging it. Some of that had been done earlier in a couple of unusual episodes of Babylon 5, but there it had a specific diegetic purpose: those episodes were framed as news reports on the scene, and most of the space-battle scenes in other episodes of the show weren’t rendered that way. On Battlestar Galactica they were just doing it all the time, and I kept wondering whose fly-on-the-wall perspective the rendering was trying so hard to give us. There wasn’t any story reason for it other than to create a sense of urgency.

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    Fred

    Santa to Bernie: Yeah the little Commies want more cookies and milk so screw ’em. We’re doing a lock out and me and Rudolf are flyin’ in scabs from Romania. Let the little ingrates eat snow!

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