Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Republicans do not trust women.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“Alexa, change the president.”

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Not all heroes wear capes.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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Seven Samurai is the version I know, so I don’t have an allegiance to the “original” American remake. I adore Denzel Washington, I like Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence, and Anton Fuqua’s Training Day was very good IMO. So we may not get around to seeing this in a theatre (the Spousal Unit does not have a strong stomach for on-screen violence), but I’ll watch it at home eventually.

On a rather different topic, while I am not qualified to have an opinion on Beyonce’s Lemonade, I know some commentors like Melissa Harris Perry’s work and you might have missed this, because Elle. And before you explain how separate you are from this topic, you might at least enjoy the way it sent Alex Jones a little further over the edge…
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Apart from entertainment & arguing, or arguing about entertainment, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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  3. 3.

    satby

    I can’t even imagine what the rest of the world thinks when they see Drumpf running to succeed President Obama in the White House. Appalled is probably too mild a word.

  4. 4.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    The agenda: tear a water pump out of a laser and replace it. Remove and replace a laser welding optic. There will be dirt everywhere.
    I’m up north of Buffalo so I won’t be getting home to Detroit until Sunday noon. Lotta weekend work lately, like I have a 19 day stretch going with one day off.

  6. 6.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @satby:

    I can’t even imagine what the rest of the world thinks when they see Drumpf running to succeed President Obama in the White House. Appalled is probably too mild a word.

    Here in Canada Trump is getting 80% of the newspaper coverage on the US election. HRC and Bernie get a small mention here and there in the Globe and Mail but they seem fascinated with The Donald. Can’t blame them. He’s like the dumpster fire that might spread to the warehouse and take down the whole block. You keep an eye on that.

  7. 7.

    rikyrah

    Good Morning ?, Everyone ?.
    Today is a big day for Peanut:it’s her First Communion.
    We have the ceremony, then lunch and a party. My day is full.

  10. 10.

    different-church-lady

    MUST BE SHARED!

    TPM: “Lone Weasel Brings Down World’s Largest Particle Collider”

    …the Large Hadron Collider at CERN outside of Geneva, has suspended operations because a weasel invaded a transformer that helps power the machine…

    Marsollier says Friday that the weasel died — and little remains of it.

    TPM COMMENTER: Did anyone hear a pop?

  11. 11.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @satby: (Reply from the previous thread) Thanks much, I saw a video of a guy in Hong Kong that did this, so I thought I’d give it a try.

    ETA: One of his other videos he throws his camera up in the air to get a pic of himself from above; I won’t be doing that. He’s been known to break a few cameras.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    Apologies for the lengthy post, but important.

    Among other revelations in the report on the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz is this:

    No criminal charges have been leveled against U.S. military personnel for the mistakes, U.S. Gen. Joseph Votel, the new head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters on Friday. Votel said that the trauma center was on a no-strike list but that the gunship crew didn’t have access to the list. Source

    More, different link. (15 years of active U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and only now is giving crews no-strilke data implemented?)

    As a result of the errant airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan last year, the U.S. military will now load aircraft systems with the coordinates of no-strike facilities before they take off, and will update some rules of engagement. That’s about the only change that will occur as a result of the Oct. 3 AC-130U gunship strike that killed 42 medical workers, patients, and other civilians at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Kunduz.
    [snip]
    “As the aircraft got up on station, it was engaged by a surface-to-air missile. So they followed proper procedures, got off station, and then were given the grids,” Gen. Joseph Votel, CENTCOM commander, said Friday at the Pentagon. “I won’t get into all the technical aspects of this but the angle with which they were trying to acquire that caused the system to come up with the wrong location.”

    The report, too, does not “get into all the technical aspects”: the most important tech explanations and descriptions of the systems in question have been heavily redacted.
    [snip]
    The crew observed the hospital from 2:00 to 2:09 a.m., according to the report, and did not see “any hostile act or demonstrated hostile intent against protected forces.”
    [snip]
    A lone sensor operator expressed doubt. Too many signs weren’t lining up, at least not in a way that made sense. “At REDACTED the TV sensor operator expressed concern regarding communications with REDACTED stating ‘He is being very vague, and I’m not sure if that’s going to people with weapons or just anybody, so we will stay neutral as far as that goes.””

    That operator “was the only crew member to realize that the observed location might be incorrect, but efforts to clarify the discrepancy were diluted by inaccurate misleading and digressing communications and descriptions between REDACTED and REDACTED. Decisions made from the REDACTED to employ fires were based on poorly-developed or non-existent [satellite antenna],” says the report.

    The crew fired anyway, more than 200 rounds. “The aircraft Commander approved REDACTED engagement, in violation of [rules of engagement],” the report said. Source

    Finally,

    In a statement Thursday, Amnesty International said it had “serious concerns” about the Pentagon’s “questionable track record of policing itself.” It called for an independent investigation to determine what happened and “to assess potential criminal wrongdoing.”

    White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday that he doesn’t think President Obama has been told the results of the Pentagon investigation. Earnest said he would not prejudge the outcome but “accountability is important and that’s something that was communicated to the military leadership.” Source

  14. 14.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    @satby:

    I can’t even imagine what the rest of the world thinks when they see Drumpf running to succeed President Obama in the White House. Appalled is probably too mild a word.

    I’m not wildly impressed with the kind of people much of the rest of the world is letting get near the lever of power, either. Marine Le Pen? Viktor Orban? Geert Wilders? Fortunately, Berlusconi appears to be done, but he wasn’t a bright spot in Italian history. And those are the democracies.

    Trump is not an exclusively American phenomenon.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
    Unlike those other nations, the US is a superpower — the last one standing, some people say. President Trump, by virtue of being POTUS, would be powerful in ways out of Berlusconi’s or Wilders’ or Le Pen’s reach. We outside America see American military officers saying they would rather resign their commissions than serve under a loose cannon like Trump, and of course we worry.

  19. 19.

    Peale

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Duarte, who is probably going to win in the Philippines, can match Trump daily in the “needs a filter” department. “That raped nun was hot. I wish I coulda had a go at her first” doesn’t really fit in my mind under “things a presidential candidate might say”, but it seems to be working for him.

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    As to Denzel Washington, ‘Training Day’ was scary good, really scary good, and it was because of him. You believed he was real.

  23. 23.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Amir Khalid: From the article I linked above:

    During the election campaign, Trump has repeatedly bashed China, claiming that he respects it but will prove a far tougher negotiator over trade. Earlier this month the Chinese finance minister, Lou Jiwei, called him “an irrational type” due to his proposal that tariffs on imported Chinese goods be increased to up to 45%.

    Shen Dingli, the deputy head of Fudan University’s institute of international affairs, described Trump as a “foolish” man who was taking advantage of a “naive America”. But he said he was a foolish man Beijing should welcome in the White House. George W Bush had done huge damage to America’s standing in the world by invading Iraq, Shen argued. A Trump administration would continue that trend.

    “Everybody knows that American aggression has made China rise more rapidly. So if another American president would invade Panama, would invade North Korea, would invade Vietnam, that would give China superpower status because America would weaken itself,” Shen predicted, adding: “So [we would be] happy to see it.”

  24. 24.

    Eric S.

    My agenda is all about running this weekend. My brother is running a 5k this morning and he and my 3 year old niece have a short run this afternoon. 75 feet maybe.

    Tomorrow my brother and I run the Flying Pig Half Marathon. I’m hoping for a 2 hour finish time. If my brother had his way he’ll be closer to a 1:30:00 finish than my 2.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @OzarkHillbilly:
    Well, there’s the flip side of the loose cannon. A fool and a blowhard will make blunders, predictable ones, that a more careful president won’t.

  26. 26.

    JMG

    Everyone involved in the new Magnificent Seven is a fine actor. But why remake a movie that’s shown on a near weekly basis on one cable channel or another, and has been for decades? The original has been so firmly imprinted into so many brains I just don’t see how this new one is going to be that much of a box office draw.
    I stand ready to be proven wrong, as it’s show business, and forecasting dog races is less risky.

  28. 28.

    Chris

    New Jungle Book movie: yes, it’s good. Just be sure you go in understanding that it’s still based on the Disney movie more than the book (despite some nods to it).

  29. 29.

    rea

    The Magnificent Seven:

    Ring! Ring! It’s 7:00 A.M.!
    Move y’self to go again
    Cold water in the face
    Brings you back to this awful place
    Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too

    Must get up an’ learn those rules
    Weather man and the crazy chief
    One says sun and one says sleet
    A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
    Churning out that boogaloo
    Gets you up and gets you out
    But how long can you keep it up?
    Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
    So cheap and real phony
    Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
    English pounds and Eskimo pence

  30. 30.

    MomSense

    @Chris:

    Is oooobe doo I wanna be like you in this movie? That’s a great song especially when a bunch of little kids sing along to it.

  31. 31.

    Helen

    @satby: I’m heading to Dublin tomorrow. One of the most fun things I do when I’m there is talking to the Irish in pubs over a Guinness or two. They do not hold back and can talk about those nutty Americans forever. I will report back

  33. 33.

    Schlemazel Khan

    Saw Congressman Ryan at the airport yesterday. I was able to briefly give him the finger as my way of saying thanks for all he has done to this nation. Mrs. S posted this on FB & I got a nasty response from a fellow hockey fan asking why I thought it OK to disrespect him but not OK to disrespect people because of their ethnicity. I explained Ryan made a choice, ethnicity is not a choice. This could get to be unfun.

    I also saw the giant Newt at the airport but was unable to thank him for all he has done to elevate Drumpf and Cruz

  34. 34.

    Chris

    @NotMax:

    (15 years of active U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and only now is giving crews no-strilke data implemented?)

    I never believed that the Pentagon took collateral damage anywhere near as seriously as it claimed to (and in fact, when the DWB hospital was hit, my first thought was “it’s a major international organization with probably a whole bunch of Westerners working in it; that’s the only reason it’s even news.”) But yeah, that’s fucked up.

    In a statement Thursday, Amnesty International said it had “serious concerns” about the Pentagon’s “questionable track record of policing itself.”

    I’ve heard at least a few stories via antiwar circles whose overall vibe is that the U.S. military’s relationship with the Iraqi civilian population is roughly analogous to the Ferguson PD’s relationship with the black community in its jurisdiction. Just, you know, scaled up by a few orders of magnitude on account of the firepower the U.S. military has at its disposal, and the fact that the whole thing was happening an ocean away and that even the very limited amount of coverage and sympathy that black inner city dwellers get in American media and from the average American is more than Iraqis will ever get. No idea if the same is true in Afghanistan, but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine.

    You COULD say “but Chris, war isn’t policing and it’s wrong to demand the same things from soldiers that you do from cops…” but since we’ve told for about a decade and a half that one of the reasons we’re there is to liberate those poor suffering people (and in fact, those of us who were skeptical of either or both wars are the real racists for not wanting to liberate them) and absolutely inundated with pictures of soldiers playing soccer with kids and handing out candy or other wholesome activities with the implication that that’s what the war’s all about, it doesn’t seem unfair to point this kind of thing out.

  35. 35.

    Chris

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    That is awesome, and yet sad at the same time given that 10 years is, like, two thirds of most dogs’ life. At least they’ll get to see him again, though.

  36. 36.

    MomSense

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    Ryan is the guy who thinks it is better for school kids to go hungry thereby preserving their honor than it is to make sure hey have enough to eat. Fuck him. Seriously, he is the kind of villain Dickens wrote minus the capability for redemption.

  40. 40.

    debbie

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    You’re right. This is a species-wide thing, and the planet will be better off once we’ve driven ourselves into extinction.

    (That Glenn Beck thing is beyond belief, but the Cheetos photo would pair nicely with the photo of a tear trickling down his cheek that he’s selling for $115.)

  41. 41.

    gene108

    Has anybody here had AV fistula surgery for hemodialysis access?

    I need to get this scheduled in the next few weeks.

    I’ve met with the vascular surgeon. I have a good vein to do this. I have possible dates. I want to make sure everything is clear with the insurance before setting it up.

    I was just wondering what the side effects are / adjustments that need to be made.

    I understand it is an outpatient procedure, with full sedation, so I’ll be out cold and probably in the hospital for most of the day.

    Just wondering how big an impact it will have after the surgery?

  42. 42.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Chris: One major difference between cops and soldiers: The rules of engagement for cops call for responses ranging from giving someone a verbal warning, to using deadly force with a multiplicity of options in between. With soldiers, the rules of engagement call for killing anyone who might be a danger.

    @Chris: Seeing as he disappeared at the age of one, I am wondering how well he will remember his original owner?

  43. 43.

    gene108

    I never listened to Alex Jones before. I am truly amazed he is able to make a living doing what he does.

    When I was a kid, a guy like him would be standing on the street corner shouting at passers-by, as pedestrians furtively look away, as they briskly walk past him, pretending he does not exist.

    The Internet is an amazing revolutionary thing. Alex Jones is proof.

  44. 44.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    Hi folks, anyone having any issues with the site?

    I just saw an email from last night about some issues for a user. I was not doing anything and wasn’t online so once again, “I know nothing”, said in my best Sgt. Schultz voice.

  45. 45.

    geg6

    I love me some Lemonade and hate Westerns. I mean, I can’t even describe how much I hate westerns. If you told me that George Clooney and a billion dollars were mine for the asking if I would just sit through The Magnificent Seven and I’d say oh well, guess I have to pass.

    As for Lemonade, it’s a powerful statement about being a woman, especially a black woman. It’s beautiful. If you had told me a decade ago that Beyoncé would become one of my heroes, I’d have laughed in your face. And now, I can’t love her enough.

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Speaking of scum sucking bottom feeders, House Republicans Have A Temper Tantrum Over Rule That Bans Financial Advisers From Scamming Retirees

    The Department of Labor (DOL) has finalized rules that require financial advisers who help people make investments for retirement to put their clients’ interests ahead of their own. But House Republicans aren’t letting the rule go into effect without a fight.

    On Thursday, the House voted on a resolution that would effectively block the new rules, which require advisers to adhere to a “fiduciary standard,” that passed along strict party lines, with 234 Republicans voting yes and 183 Democrats voting no. Republicans claim that the rule will make investment advice more expensive, with Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), a sponsor of the legislation, saying it would “protect access to affordable retirement advice.” They’ve also characterized the rules as government overreach, with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) calling them “Obamacare for financial planning.”

  48. 48.

    JGabriel

    Alex Jones (video at top):

    Every sitcom, every drama you see, the father’s a fat idiot who’s a moron.

    I’m sensing projection.

  49. 49.

    hueyplong

    1. Alex Jones’ reaction alone makes Beyonce’s Lemonade effort a net positive. Everything else about it is just fidgeting with margins. Well played in election year, Ms. Knowles.

    2. Trailers are supposed to be stylized. Therefore we have at least some reason to hope the movie will be less so, though the casual, faux-witty aside during a tense moment is a flashing red warning light. My daughter calls it “doing a Sean Connery.” My spousal unit would have to expire for us to miss a Denzel Washington movie, so we’ll see it one way or another.

    3. The world is concerned enough about Trump (and about Americans in general for threatening to elect him) that Hitlery could win a Nobel merely by winning the election. Right wingers will never understand that (a) that’s exactly why Obama won one, and (b) is was entirely fit and proper for the award to be given for that very reason. The way the Senate and House are currently configured, it’s difficult to imagine an act more beneficial to Earth at large than to prevent a Republican from occupying the White House. Tell your Sanders friends.

  50. 50.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Alain the Site Fixer: An issue I’ve had, and it has only been with this site and only since the upgrades, is that after making a comment I will go to another website on a different tab or 3, reading other content. When I finally come back to BJ, my computer jumps all over the place up and down the comment thread, and I am never able to tell when it is finally done and there is no telling where it will stop. It is frustrating because I’ll think it’s done and start scrolling and all of a sudden it will jump again.

    I always figured it was my computer and my problem, but since you asked….

  51. 51.

    JGabriel

    @geg6:

    I mean, I can’t even describe how much I hate westerns. If you told me that George Clooney and a billion dollars were mine for the asking if I would just sit through The Magnificent Seven and I’d say oh well, guess I have to pass.

    It’s not really a western. It’s a remake of a samurai film, with cowboy hats instead of kimono.

  52. 52.

    Joel

    @Chris: The former infantrymen that I know definitely took the verified shooter principle seriously. But airstrikes (drone and otherwise) are something else entirely.

  53. 53.

    Hal

    A Facebook friend is currently blaming president Obama for the actions of protesters in California. All I can say is thanks Obama!!!

  55. 55.

    debbie

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    That happens to me too on my iPad mini. On longer threads, as I try to scroll down to the bottome of the page, it will automatically jump back to the main page.

  58. 58.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @debbie: In a sad “I’m not alone” sort of way, that makes me feel better, but in a “Oh no, not you too?” way I’m sorry.

    @OzarkHillbilly: I should add that today for whatever reason, the issue is minimal.

  60. 60.

    Schlemazel Khan

    I am not up on the pop scene and have zero idea what the deal is all about with Lemonade. I am old enough to remember when some people were deeply upset about jungle music and then about hidden drug references Iam assuming this panic is much like those but I can’t bring myself to care. The people whining were never going to buy or enjoy the music anyway and I seriously doubt they will keep anyone who enjoy it from doing so, The rest of the noise is just to feed the base.

    There are so many great movies yet to be destroyedremade. Citizen Kane directed by Jon Peters, staring Keanu Reeves as CF Kane would be a classic of the genre.

  61. 61.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    @OzarkHillbilly: Hmm. What browser and OS or device? I do so much of my reading on my iPad that I don’t necessarily see things in my normal life of reading what everyone has to say. I am about to update the theme files on the test server and then apply them to the live server (Monday, that is, not this weekend). Perhaps that will remove whatever ghost is causing such issues for you!

  62. 62.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    @debbie: That’s that %#*(&%#)&%#&()%&)(#%)(#%&%^# video ad on the right. It causes the page to auto-refresh. I can’t stop it, can’t remove it, can’t affect it in any way. I hates it but I am not the boss.

  64. 64.

    Schlemazel Khan

    I saw a campaign sign for the Crudz, it said “TRUSTED” and it made me sad, I thought it is a shame he won’t get the nomination so I could have a sign that said “YES, SOMEONE PLEASE TRUSSTED“

  65. 65.

    Peale

    @JGabriel: got to be. Now granted I don’t watch a lot of TV these days, but outside of the Simpsons and family guy, I can’t think of any fat idiot fathers on tv at the moment. Thin idiots, maybe…

  66. 66.

    hueyplong

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    “Citizen Kane directed by Jon Peters, staring Keanu Reeves as CF Kane would be a classic of the genre.”

    I’ll see that and raise you Reeves in Michael Bay’s remake of Casablanca, with a Hillary Clinton lookalike playing Major Strasse.

  67. 67.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    Folks – anyone that is having trouble posting, please drop me a line at [email protected]. Since the issue is not being able to leave comments, that’s the best approach. Raven, I already send you an email asking questions. I don’t see any glaring issues and before I report this to the hosting company’s great support folks, I’d like to have more information.

  68. 68.

    JGabriel

    @Joel:

    Seems a bit stylized for my tastes, but whatever.

    Right? That’s the whole problem right there: Alex Jones is just too fucking stylized.

  69. 69.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Hal: They had a report on the local news about the Trump supporter that got a bloody face last night. I guess his facebook(or some other online posting) had remarks saying that he wanted to incite the anti-Trump folk and video of him doing just that. The guy is a dudebro and an ass; fucker got what he deserved.

  70. 70.

    Mike J

    @efgoldman:

    and he’s never held a non-government job

    He drove the Oscar Meyer Weenie mobile during college. But it doesn’t change your point.

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    @Alain the Site Fixer

    Slight quibble about the clunkiness of some of the alt text. screenshot

    Also, oddity of incorrect video(s) showing up on front page posts, but correct one(s) within that post when viewed on the comments page has returned.

  74. 74.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    All done. Have a good day, all. I was pondering making a post but I don’t want to invite any distractions from my other laudable pursuits.

  75. 75.

    hueyplong

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    There’s no topping that. Once you’ve gone “Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad” you can offload a dump truck of awful into the cast. In my mind’s eye, the opening credit has Sandler’s and Chase’s names filling the screen as first listed co-stars.

    At that point, we’re arguing about who does the score.

  77. 77.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Alain the Site Fixer:

    What browser and OS or device?

    A more tech aware individual would no doubt be embarrassed to admit this but Luddite that I am I am quite used to displaying my ignorance for all to see but, I think the answers are Firefox and Windows 10.

    OK, you guys can stop laughing now.

  80. 80.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    @NotMax: Clunkiness as in styling or content? I am not sure how much control I have over its styling but I will look. Content, not me.

    As for the video, are they YouTube videos? I’m wondering if it’s not from the site, but some caching thing on YouTube/ISP side of things that makes that happen. And again, what device/OS/browser? And when you see it, does it happen on another browser or device? We’ve changed nothing on how we handle video or links or previews/placeholders.

  83. 83.

    scav

    @OzarkHillbilly: Well, if they’re going to have to let gays marry in their state (with paperwork and all!), I guess their only other line of defense is to make the entire prospect of marriage is Mississippi so utterly unattractive that no sane‡ individual will wish to attempt it.
    ‡ presumably the leaders assume this will leave enough of a local breeding population to continue, if not improve, refine and further cement, their fine heritage-not-hate.

  84. 84.

    Alain the Site Fixer

    @NotMax: One more detail. Quick research shows that this video (esp YouTube) showing incorrect thumbnails for embedded video is a cache issue. Emptying browser cache solves issue.

  87. 87.

    NotMax

    @Alain the Site Fixer

    FF latest build, Win 7.

    Clunkiness as is shown in the screenshot of the alt text for the share buttons at the bottom of front page posts.

    YouTube vids. Longtime oddity on BJ site only, which was rectified during the rebuild and then reappeared during the last (or next to last, can’t recall precisely) update. Suspect there may be more than one way for a front pager to embed a video within FYWP, and that one method but not another results in the oddity as it shows up more consistently for some FPers than for others.

  88. 88.

    Formerly disgruntled Clinton supporter

    @Anne Laurie (OP):
    Is Stephen Colbert qualified to “white-mansplain” Lemonade to us?
    You Tube

  90. 90.

    ThresherK

    Spousal ThresherK and I are ticket-winners to the new stage musical Anastasia.

    First, I didn’t know it was a musical, and the story intrigues me because I like difficult musicals (Chess and Parade for example). Second, I found out the songs are by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, whose work include Ragtime and My Favorite Year.

    This keeps showing more and more promise.

  91. 91.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    @JMG:

    This is 21st century Hollywood. The idea is create brands, not singular classics. Assemble a collection of attractive, charismatic actors, write an action-oriented script with lots of one-liners, throw a big budget behind it.. Rinse and repeat.

    I used to mock this cookie-cutter strategy until I realized I’m not the target audience. Teenagers, couples with kids, and action fans in general far outnumber movie snobs. The original Star Wars was the template. Considering how much money blockbuster series have made the last 40 years, it’s good business.

  92. 92.

    aimai

    @OzarkHillbilly: So crazy. Even if you thought, in a misogynistic fashion, that women were routinely lying about being abused in order to scam the divorce the proper thing to do is to order the dissolution of the marriage and its assets and an equitable division of time with the children as soon as an abuse accusation is made because, logically, its the only way to protect the alleged abuser from further “slander.”

  93. 93.

    Zinsky

    Alex Jones is crazier than a shithouse rat. So, the CIA wants to cause race riots and to “burn the place down”? Yeah, right Alex. What a shit-for-brains.

  94. 94.

    NotMax

    @Zinsky

    His web site is (and always has been) a trip. More conspiracies per square inch than at a convention of paranoids.

  95. 95.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @OzarkHillbilly: I always like Petunia’s story:

    In 2003, Petunia ran out of the back yard of her family’s Virginia home, and despite months of searching, they were unable to track her down.

    In 2011, a good Samaritan found a stray dog in a wildlife area near Sacramento, California, and brought her to a shelter to be scanned for a microchip.

    Hey! She just wanted to go for a little run! What’s the big deal?!? ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (Like raven, I’m having trouble posting this morning. FYWP seems crankier than usual – replies just vanish.)

  96. 96.

    ThresherK

    @Shawn in ShowMe: It’s not that different from Old Hollywood. I can’t place it, but someone in the biz said (speaking in the voice of a moviegoer) “I want to see Clark Gable play a Clark Gable role in a Clark Gable movie”.

    He was a brand and he knew it. That sense of what his image was goes a ways toward explaining Gable’s reluctance to join in a period drama like Gone With The Wind, with “womens’ director” George Cukor, after his recent miss in Parnell. (You haven’t seen it? You’re not missing much, and he’s really miscast.)

  98. 98.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Alain the Site Fixer: I tried to post a reply wth a link to r o v e r . c o m and the reply disappeared without a trace. In the previous thread, I tried to post a reply with a blockquote from BillInGlendale and I couldn’t until I removed that – it also disappeared without a trace.

    Something seems more cranky than normal with the site. Dunno what it is though, but links and/or blockquotes may be involved.

    Thanks for trying to keep this bucket-of-bolts running for us.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (And, of course, I couldn’t post this until I removed the mention of r.com..)

  99. 99.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Alain the Site Fixer: I tried to post a reply wth a link and the reply disappeared without a trace. In the previous thread, I tried to post a reply with a blockquote from BillInGlendale and I couldn’t until I removed that – it also disappeared without a trace.

    Something seems more cranky than normal with the site. Dunno what it is though, but links and/or blockquotes may be involved.

    Thanks for trying to keep this bucket-of-bolts running for us.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (And, of course, I couldn’t post this without extra editing…)

  101. 101.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I this earlier this week: Pero the sheepdog travels 240 miles back to former home (no linky button) theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/25/pero-sheepdog-travels-240-miles-back-former-home

    Alan and Shan James had sent Pero off to help out on the other farm in March, believing that he would be ideal for the job of rounding up sheep there. Evidently however, the relocation to England was not for the Welsh sheepdog, who abandoned his work in a field earlier this month and embarked on the journey back to his birthplace.

    “We’d been told that Pero had disappeared, and was nowhere to be seen,” Shan James told the BBC from the family’s sheep farm in Penrhyn-coch.

    “But then, last Wednesday evening, 20 April, my husband Alan went out to check on the animals after supper and there was Pero on our doorstep. It was a bit of a shock, and the dog was going crazy after seeing Alan.”

  104. 104.

    NobodySpecial

    Happy International Tabletop Day to everyone!

    Oh yeah, and forget the western, just watch Seven Samurai and get the good stuff from the source.

  107. 107.

    Emma

    A music reviewer at The Guardian said that “the film that accompanies the album, premiered last night on HBO, she does everything to express her displeasure at her husband’s behaviour short of appearing holding aloft a pair of scissors in one hand and Jay Z’s severed testicles in the other. So now I’m going to have to listen to the album. Good f-ck you music is in short supply.

  108. 108.

    Ken

    @gene108: When em was a kid, a guy like Jones would have been involuntarily committed, and would now be smiling at the flowers and scratching his lobotomy scar. I still have to say that, with notable exceptions, it’s better this way.

  111. 111.

    Mike J

    I thought the point of a trailer was to make you want to see the movie. Had you just said, “hey there’s a remake of the Magnificent Seven” I would have said, “meh” but might have given it a try. The trailer made me actively dislike it. Of course the one genre of movies I dislike as much as underwear pervert movies is westerns. So of course they;re making more of them.

  113. 113.

    ruemara

    The only pop going on here is my mind being blown by these repairs. I don’t think I can do the fuel filter and gas pump replacement myself. Beyond not really being able to follow the YouTube video I found, I don’t think I even have all the tools. No wonder guys are often messing with older cars all weekend, it keeps you too busy to do anything else. This is ridiculous.

    I think the onpoy critique the non-black, non-female audience can make is technical (was it well made? Did the images inspire you, move you?); material (do you recognize the hero’s journey in the story? Do you relate to the stories of unfaithfulness, the damage it causes and the redemption?) &/or musically (does it have a nice beat and you can dance to it?). The problem has been a select few offering their view on whether it’s OK for Beyonce to even do the songs, which should make anyone tell them to eat a bag of salted sriracha dicks.

  114. 114.

    scav

    Between “Drunken Rape is OK” and “You Can Beat Mrss-issippi” there’s also UT where being raped makes women honor code violators and unfit for further education at BYU. ‘You’re a sinner’: how a Mormon university shames rape victims.

    Like the little detail that it was a Utah County sheriff’s deputy, a friend of Seidu (the rapist) that outed the rape victims identity to the University authorities so they could haul her up on an honor violation and derail her education. Plus that Mrs. Rapist is by his side, supporting hubby at the hearings. TradMarriage is back with a roar.

  116. 116.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @different-church-lady: “Lone Weasel Brings Down World’s Largest Particle Collider”

    So Ted Cruz has taken up an interest in science.

    Also too, Trump will be complaining about the new Magnificent Seven. They’re not shooting Mexicans in this one.

  117. 117.

    singfoom

    This remake looks to be watchable, but The Seven Samurai will always be my favorite. Old movies have better pacing/cutting, but modern audiences seem to think thats boring.

    Alex Jones tears and the other assorted RWNJs tears about lemonade make it even more delicious.

  118. 118.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Alain the Site Fixer: I see that “incorrect video thumbnail” thing all the time at Atrios’s dump (on Chrome/Win7). I just refresh the page and it’s fine. If that’s showing up here, I don’t think it’s unique, and I don’t think it’s related to posting issues that some of us have (but I could be wrong, of course).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  119. 119.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Emma: Alain is playing with it a little. Also blockquote, bold and italics, and link button gone for me.

  120. 120.

    debit

    @Germy: I did! A good summer flick; funny and entertaining. If you like cute kittens and salty language it’s a must see.

  121. 121.

    scav

    @Emma: I seem to be able to get to the album at the BBC radio website here ( Beyonce ‘Lemonade’ Album Listening Party) skip ahead an hour. It’s radio so there’s perky chatter in-between, but that’s how things were.

  122. 122.

    Germy

    @debit: I read a hilarious interview with the director. He said the hardest part was getting the cat to wear the do-rag. He said “cats will do whatever you want, but if you put something on their head they’re miserable.”

    He said they used a bunch of different cats. Each had his own specialty. One was good at sitting quietly, one was good at running, etc. He said it was like hiring a gang to rob a bank; each member an expert in his own field.

  124. 124.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @ruemara: I don’t think I can do the fuel filter and gas pump replacement myself.

    There are quite often a # of fuel filters on a vehicle. The inline ones are usually easy to access. As far as the fuel pump… These days they are all electric in tank fuel pumps. You DON’T WANT TO change them, an all but impossible pain in the ass. I’ve done it. NEVER AGAIN. Manufacturers have also taken to using special, one of a kind, one use $300 tools for their vehicles, another way to grift a little more on it’s sale.

  126. 126.

    Mike J

    @NobodySpecial:

    Oh yeah, and forget the western, just watch Seven Samurai and get the good stuff from the source.

    The original western was good. It’s the right way to do a remake. It would have been stupid for an American studio to remake it with samurai. They took a great original story, re imagined it, and made a second great movie. Heck, Kurosawa thought it was great, and it’s not like he didn’t take source material from elsewhere.

    I don’t see what this one adds to the story, although it’s hard to judge the actual movie by a horrible trailer.

  129. 129.

    Shell

    Has anyone seen Jennifer Lawrence in “JOY?” Definitely want to, but its been stubbornly OnDemand at ‘Buy Only’ for three weeks.

  130. 130.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Another great Kurosawa movie with Toshiro Mifune it is “Yojimbo”. It has also been remade several times, one was one of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, “A “Fistfull of Dollars” and the 2nd was a Bruce Willis gangster flick whose name escapes. Both were what one would expect of them and as such were not bad, but Neither came close to Yojimbo.

  132. 132.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    I find the Beyonce phenomenon to be annoying now. Yesterday The Daily Beast had five separate stories devoted to her. She’s either being deified to celestial status by rabid fans or vilified by her (often bigoted) detractors… The fascination with celebrities mystifies me.

  133. 133.

    Shell

    “I mean, I can’t even describe how much I hate westerns.”

    Yeah, Im with you. I grew up in the 60s when Westerns were rampant on the teepee, and never was a fan of any of them. I think the only western Ive ever liked is ‘Deadwood.’

    Hey, what happened to the html buttons?

  136. 136.

    J R in WV

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning, rikyrah, and congratulations!

    @satby:

    Good morning, Satby, too! And you guys raise a question for this old non-churched guy.

    Do many different religions have confirmation celebrations wherein smaller kids get dressed to the nines, or is this mostly a Roman Catholic and/or Episcopal? My experience is limited to a couple of years of Presby as a little kid, followed by U-U for a little while.

  137. 137.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Ok, I finally looked at the trailer (with the sound off). It’s got potential, I think. Updating classic stories with a more inclusive cast (rather than mostly a bunch of middle-age white guys) is worthwhile. It depends on how it’s done though (maybe the dialog is crap – I dunno).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  138. 138.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Shell: Alain updated FWYP today. I guess he needs to transfer over those changes to get the buttons back.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  142. 142.

    Mike in NC

    Snowed overnight at Tahoe. Flying from Reno to Raleigh today to return to reality. Not looking forward to it.

  143. 143.

    Kathleen

    @Eric S.: Good luck! I’m not running that this year but have done several full and half Flying Pig marathons. If you haven’t run it before, the course has one pretty good hill about 3-4 miles in (up Glbert Ave by the Casino and all the way up through beautiful Eden Park). You will be rewarded with a great view at the overlook. It’s a fantastic event (great crowd support) and shows off Cincinnati at its best. Enjoy!!!

  144. 144.

    Kathleen

    @Chris: Unfortunately, thanks to Trump, he’s seen as an “establishment Republican” who has something to offer, thanks to the Mainslime Media.

  145. 145.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    @geg6:

    If a poetic and bittersweet epic like The Seven Samurai is macho crap, please let me know what the quality macho movies are.

  146. 146.

    aimai

    @West of the Rockies (been a while): Asked my daughter about the Beyonce phenomenon after the last big video dustup. She is at a women’s college. She told me that all the other students regard Beyonce as a kind of sacred, divine, mother figure. She speaks to and about them. So what she does is loaded with meaning, and how she is treated reminds them of their own experience or their projected experience. This is a natural part of the human experience fo the world–and celebreties are just a special part of that. Human beings (male and female) attach themselves to famous figures in sports or music or theater or art or politics and study them, follow them, emulate them, support them, hate them, love them, identify with them, identify with their “enemies.” Its just part of the human condition. The essay AL linked to was fascinating.

  147. 147.

    Miss Bianca

    @Helen: Please do. If Dubliners are anything like Belfast types, they won’t hold back! Blunt is both the new *and* the old black in Belfast. Wish I could have got to Dublin too!

  149. 149.

    aimai

    @geg6: The entire film is, like Shane, about how a certain violent, masculine, ethos is invoked by helpless farmers to protect them against rabid, violent, masculine actors. In the defense of the town/farm/villagers however the rejects from the world (gunslinger, murderer, gambler, outcast) not only have to come together and lose their cynicism but they have to fall in love (with women and children) and then give up their lives in defense of community. They are transformed from individual actors and lost souls into martyred heroes of the oppressed. In the Magnificent Seven (at least, because I can’t remember the details of the 7 samurai) the local boy who dreams of fleeing the village and becoming one of them ends up settling down and marrying his sweetheart and learning that violence is not the way forward through life. Its cheesy, but its not macho crap.

  151. 151.

    J R in WV

    @gene108:

    My father had a central port for chemo, and it took daily maintenance for anti-infection and for clotting. The one was scrubbing with alchohol and replacing the bandages around the port, and the other was inhecting a syringe full of saline with a tiny bit of heparin, an anticoagulant, into the port itself – which was a little creepy, shooting that syringe into your father’s heart.

    My brother had the same sort of port installed for daily antibiotic treatment for months as he had a serious infection in his right thighbone. Also creepy. You can’t go swimming or be rambunctious outdoors, but you probably won’t feel like climbing mountains to hunt Dall Sheep or running 10K races! Probably showers if you are careful.

    Your port will probably be different, but I bet it takes similar maintenance and care. Not sure if the limitations will be similar. IIRC my bro may have done a little treadmill work indoors once his leg started feeling less bad.

    Now he’s had a dresser dropped on his knee, at work, and workers comp really really wants the damaged ligaments fixed in physical therapy rather than surgery. If not, then it will need the surgery, and then the recover from surgery PT, so not sure how that will work for workers comp…

    He’s the boss, I keep telling him bosses don’t move the furniture at the assisted living center, they call the big youngsters to do that. But he don’t listen to me much. He’s being a Republican, actually, which explains a lot. And turned 60 last August!

  154. 154.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    @aimai:

    It also helps that Beyonce has been heavily promoted by mass media outlets since she was 18 years old. Every generation needs its pop culture goddess. She’s the only one who’s had enough longevity to fill the role.

  155. 155.

    chopper

    @Mike J:

    He drove the Oscar Meyer Weenie mobile during college

    despite the fact that i knew this for some reason deep down i always thought that was better as a metaphor.

  157. 157.

    Miss Bianca

    I plan to see the new Magnificent Saven, but probably not till it’s out on DVD. Cause that’s how I roll these days.

    Nothing will touch Seven Samurai. Or Hidden Fortress, or Yojimbo, or They Who Tread On the Tiger’s Tail, or Thrne of Blood, or…. Toshiro Mifune was my all-time fave rave movie star crush. But I’ll gladly kill a couple hours watching Denzel Washington rock a black cowboy hat.

    Want to catch “Lemonade”, or at least hear the music.

    Hoping to go riding but probably have to spend the day working instead. : /

  159. 159.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    **@Mike J: @efgoldman:
    and he’s never held a non-government job
    He drove the Oscar Meyer Weenie mobile during college. But it doesn’t change your point.**
    i think he also worked for his cousins at the family construction company, Ryan Int’l, a company that iirc owes no small part of its success to government contracts

  160. 160.

    Helen

    @Mike J: Guinness actually runs a “Guinness University” at the storehouse in Dublin. They teach bartenders how to pour so that they avoid Hillary’s mistake. That head? Unacceptable.

  161. 161.

    gogol's wife

    @Germy:

    I was embarrassed to admit to myself after reading the negative review in the NYTimes that I really want to see that movie. Does Keanu Reeves really provide the cat’s voice, or did I misunderstand that?

  166. 166.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ryan Inc. Central, not international
    bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-11/ryan-s-family-firm-gains-from-government-spending-he-criticiz…
    I’ll quote this part cause I think it’s funny

    Paul Ryan worked for the family business in 1997 and 1998 as a marketing consultant, after a stint in Washington as a speech writer and aide to lawmakers including Republican Representatives Jack Kemp and Sam Brownback. He returned to Washington as a U.S. representative in January 1999.
    “He was very effective” at the company, said Adam Ryan, who was in the same 1988 graduating class as Paul at Janesville’s Joseph A. Craig High School, where Adam was named most likely to succeed and Paul the biggest brown-noser.

    He hasn’t changed, except now instead of sucking up to teachers with his earnest, nice boy schtick, he’s sucking up to the Village, who are dumber and more susceptible to that kind of thing

  167. 167.

    debit

    @gogol’s wife: There is a dream sequence where the kitten is voiced by Reeves, otherwise it’s just normal cat vocalizations. Ignore the bad reviews. It’s a charming movie and I plan to have it on DVD for re-watchings when I’m feeling down.

  169. 169.

    Mike J

    @Helen: Guinness is supposed to have a large head, so much that it is common to order your second when you’ve just started your first. While I’m not saying that her technique is perfect, you are absolutely NOT to run it down the side of the glass. A spoon is the correct way.

    More troubling for me is that Americans will think those are pint glasses, when they’re one fifth smaller than a proper pint.

  173. 173.

    ruemara

    @debit: Keanu is in it too?! I’m down for that. One day, my soon to be husband. One day.

    I give up this gas filter fuel pump thing. My parents are just making me jump through hoops at this point. If I’m on my own, just say it so I can figure out the next step. This isn’t it.

  174. 174.

    Germy

    @gogol’s wife: I haven’t seen Keanu yet, but from what I understand, his person has a dream (some reviewers call it a drug trip) and the cat guides him through the dream sequence speaking in Keanu Reeves’ voice. Sort of like a spirit guide.

  175. 175.

    Agrippa

    I’,m sorry, but I do not see the attraction of Sanders. I think that he is an ordinary politician and spent years in Congress. And, never really did very much.
    I prefer Clinton. She has more experience and has better people skills

  176. 176.

    Emma

    @Miss Bianca: The first Japanese movie I ever saw was Rashomon. It is a dizzying combination of courtroom drama and psychological thriller, and the use of a variety of povs — and the realization that they are all unreliable narrators — shocked me silly. Still one of my favorites.

  177. 177.

    Mike J

    @Agrippa: SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS TOFFEE-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!!

    Oh, I’m sorry, this is abuse. You want 12A, next door.

  178. 178.

    Miss Bianca

    @Emma: That’s one I haven’t revisited since college days…dang, now I’m thinking a serious Kurosawa fix might be in order…

    “Ran” is arguably my favorite, after “Seven Samurai”. I remember seeing that on the big screen in New Haven and just wandering out onto the street and around the town afterwards as if I’d been pole-axed …

  179. 179.

    M.C. Simon Milligan

    @OzarkHillbilly: “Yojimbo” itself is, basically, Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest” with a bit of “The Glass Key” thrown in. “Man goes to town and plays two factions off against each other”. See also the Cohen Bro’s “Miller’s Crossing”.

    “The Seven Samurai”/”The Magnificent Seven” is “town in trouble finds heroes to save it”. This is the setup of “Beowulf” and most certainly predates that (Caelius Vibena’s gang against Tarquin the Elder in aid to Rome seems to have elements of this).

    Hell, that’d be a more interesting movie: “Based on an Etruscan tomb painting and cryptic remarks by the Emperor Claudius…”

  180. 180.

    Emma

    @Miss Bianca: The thing I most remember about Ran is the battle scene. It made every war movie I’d ever seen seem somehow like an old-fashioned set piece. The eyes can’t rest, the ears are assaulted, and the flash of guns telegraphs that the old ways are over. Horrible and amazing at the same time.

  182. 182.

    different-church-lady

    @srv:

    What do you people do now that Al Jazeera is gone? Are there really people who watch Maddow every night?

    I spend a lot of time thinking about how I can get even deeper into your crawlspace.

  183. 183.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    ah, the last day of the month, Spamalot Day as every campaign list I’ve ever been put on comes to haunt my inbox

  184. 184.

    Miss Bianca

    @Emma: Every time I think of that battle scene I flash on a brief shot – really brief – of a guy sitting and holding his own severed arm and screaming with this look of utter shock and horror. The camera cuts away from him almost immediately but the impact was just freeze-dried onto my retinas. it made all the war movie violence I’d ever seen seem so cheap, so…comparatively bloodless and anodyne. That one image stood for the whole cost of what was happening.

  186. 186.

    Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class

    Took me 4 hours to assemble a sideboard. Manufacturer has a 5 star difficulty rating system – this was a 4.

    I’ve put together a lot of furniture, but this one was the most laborious. Thankfully, I’ve done it before and know the pitfalls – an inexperienced Pearson would have seriously screwed it up several times over missed directions that required some intuition.

  187. 187.

    debbie

    @Steeplejack:

    Thanks. I know I went to AdBlock’s site a couple months ago and they said there wasn’t one for Chrome, but I’ll check again.

  188. 188.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    NO LABELS!

    Joan Walsh ‏@ joanwalsh 20m20 minutes ago
    Huntsman calling for GOP to rally around Trump should cause “No Labels” to automatically self-destruct

    There was a time when I wondered if Huntsman’s stunt run in 2012, after accepting Obama’s posting to China, wasn’t some kind of eleven-dimensional ratfuck by the Obama team to run a moderate Mormon against the newly severely conservative Willard. Now he pals around with Lieberman in the name of nonpartisanship, was a megadonor to JEB? and now he’s Trumpeter. Maybe he’s just the the dingiest dingbat aging Trust Fund Baby on this side of the Atlantic. And I’m sure regular voice on CNN in the name or Very Most Reasonable Seriousness

  189. 189.

    SiubhanDuinne

    At the cinema for the final MET Opera Live in HD transmission of the 2015-16 season, Strauss’ Elektra (hey, what happened to the italics button?!).

    Have never seen this opera, although I’ve heard recordings.

  193. 193.

    guachi

    The dustup reminds me of all the times Madonna would do something intentionally provocative. As far as I’m concerned, it’s being done to sell albums and make money.

    At the end of the day, all that really matters is if the music is good. In Madonna’s case, it was often really good.

  194. 194.

    MomSense

    @ruemara:

    Please invite me to your wedding.

    Sucks about the car. I had to be the victim of a pretty high speed head on collision in order to replace my car. As bad as your car troubles seem, I don’t recommend it.

  196. 196.

    PurpleGirl

    I wpke up a little early and began doing stuff: I took soda bottles back for the deposit, I went to a couple of stores on errands and paid some bills at other stores. I was out of the house about 2 hours on the errands. I’ve had lunch now and may (or may not) take a nap. Then I have some food shopping to do. Anyway, I feel like I have accomplished a lot so far today.

  197. 197.

    ruemara

    @MomSense: it has potential. I’d need to roll the car out into the street, but these are logistical issues.

    All of Balloon Juice is invited to the Mara/Reeves wedding. Wear black and come prepared to fight robots.

  200. 200.

    BaldwinBro

    @debbie: —-Really? menu tab, more tools, extensions, bottom of list “add extensins”. Type in “adblock’, there’s a myriad to choose from

  201. 201.

    Miss Bianca

    @ruemara: You are on fire with the snark lately. Between “Negro Pokemon” and fighting robots at the Mara/Reeves wedding I’m slumped to the floor. *When* is your movie coming out again?

    That

  202. 202.

    ruemara

    @Miss Bianca: figuring out the platform and this month. Which is funny, because the movie is just a light romcom. I think I’m having trouble with it going anywhere because people expect some message crap from a black woman. Jesus, just being a happy creative looking for love and possibly finding it is subversive, have some damn fun! I’m an intellectual nerd for Christ’s sake, this was never gonna be straight outta set it off with dead presidents from girlz in tha hoodz.

  204. 204.

    Kathleen

    @ruemara: @ruemara: I want to see your movie! And good luck with your car. I wouldn’t have even opened the hood. My modus operandi is curling up and weeping in the face of car troubles.

  205. 205.

    Miss Bianca

    @ruemara: I’m dying over here. Just so you know. I love rom-coms, sorry to hear you’re having such a hassle. Maybe if you gave it the working title “Sex in the hood”? (ducks, runs from robots).

  207. 207.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    @Mike J:

    So you’re saying we Yanks should have our “pint” glasses followed by an additional fifth of Guinness? I’m in….

  208. 208.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    Was she there live? I mean, actually at Lincoln Center as opposed to cinema? What an experience! Just extraordinary.

  212. 212.

    Bob In Portland

    @NotMax: Notice how quickly Mnem accused Russia of bombing a hospital in Aleppo and how she’s so quiet about the US bombing a hospital in Afghanistan?

    Meanwhile, the charge has disappeared from the western press. Why? Good question. Days before the alleged hospital bombing in Aleppo stories in the Russian press talked about how Kerry et al were about to create some anti-Syrian propaganda on the eve of the Syrians’ attempt to drive al Qaeda out of the city.

    Maybe it happened, although it seems to have disappeared. Maybe the attack on the hospital were shells from the al Qaeda units in the city. Maybe Syria did it.

    This is what Mnem seems not to understand. Propaganda. First off, while the US bombed the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz for an hour with a C-130 essentially parked over the sign, no one suggests that the US intentionally bombed that hospital. Why? Because there is no military benefit to blowing up and flattening a hospital. This is not to ignore our intentional drone attacks on weddings et al.

    But Mnem assumes that RUSSIA did the bombing in Aleppo and that they did it intentionally. She cares not that the Syrian government is fighting al Qaeda because, well, they’re moderates or good guys or on our side here.

  214. 214.

    NotMax

    @Bob in Portland

    And you’re ranting to me about another commenter because… why?

    Don’t drag me into your feuds, please. Or at least take a number and politely wait your turn.

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