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Thanks for posting this. We need an immediate, wartime-level mobilization to have a reasonable chance of keeping AGW to merely bad. There are several meters of sea level rise already baked in, and that by itself will have profound negative impacts on our economy -- but we have a chance of staving of...

Reagan had lobbied against Medicaid, producing some materials claiming it was socialist or something. I'm surprised that was not thrown back in his face later. I remember wondering whether his campaign had colluded with Iranians, although it turns out that it was more like the Iranians wanted to hum...

Jimmy's not the greatest President (ol' Honest Abe still has a lock on that, I think), but he's got to be the most underrated. Damn shame we chose to trade a second term with him for fucking Reagan. I remember those solar panels going up, many decades ago. And I remember Reagan taking them down, to...

Thank you for the thoughtful writeup, Crazedwraith. Although I don't need details on the mechanics of resurrection, I felt as though I wanted to know more about how...being dead... would affect you psychologically, when given a chance to introspect on it, which basically no one ever gets. I mean, Su...

Spoiler warning I enjoyed JL more than a lot of reviewers apparently did, because I found myself interested in the characters. I would have preferred basically a setup movie, showing the characters interacting, training, etc., and ending with a surprise appearance of -- uh-oh! -- Lex Luthor. One the...

It seems to me that conservatives are doing to climate change what they accuse liberals of doing to radical you-know-what terrorism: refusing to call it by name.

A key theme for the mutant kids is how they turned the stories about the X-men into a mythology, one with deep personal and collective meaning for them. A cross would be just something you put on a grave to them, Christianity being a pretty sterile mythology to most moderns and not particularly sig...

As I recall Wolverine himself said it was 'poison'- ironically if they'd had Magneto around he'd have been able to rid him of that pesky metal no problem. :wink: I took the reference to poison as more metaphor -- the thing that is poisoning him is the darkness of his soul. The violence had to be ov...

You know, like GW did with his tax cuts. Cuts he could do because "Blowjob Mc. Lie Poorly" had us in such a good spot economically I remember when GW first got into office he had the IRS cut everyone a several-hundred-dollar check. (I sent half of mine back to the IRS, and got a very nice...

Trump now says he's going to move on to tax reform...but what about the infrastructure spending package that he had talked about? The one thing that might actually do the country a spot of good (except for the border wall, if you can call that infrastructure, because it would just sit there needing ...

On a related note, I read that melatonin has a role in fighting cancer. The immune system is active at night, which may be related to lower levels of insulin and higher levels of melatonin in circulation. Melatonin production is stimulated by darkness, so anyone who has cancer concerns would be well...

As far as the relationship between Harley and "Mr. J", it looked to me as though Mr. J ended up falling very hard for her, to the point that he is willing to go out on a limb (dressed in a tuxedo no less). As he said, "surrender becomes power", so her surrender to him had the eff...

Out of the whole squad, only Diablo and maybe Killer Croc could in any way be described as metahuman. The others (apart from Deadshot because of his unique skills) were all of extremely debatable value compared to a normal soldier. I hear you. If you talk about physical firepower alone, one El Diab...

Director Ayers described SS as "Dirty Dozen with supervillains" but it reminded me of Escape from New York. The killer implants, the cynicism-inducing rescuee, the rather slow pacing of walking around a city at night. So for me it was Escape from New York with multiple personality disorder...

It's interesting that apparently no one took seriously Uematsu's clearly stated threats to do just what he did. It reminds me of an incident from my time in Japan - the girlfriend of an American friend of mine threatened to kill him and his entire family. When he reported it, everyone laughed it off...

TRUMP: SADDAM HUSSEIN WAS GOOD AT KILLING TERRORISTS

...Actually that's true. Invading Iraq, thereby removing Hussein, thereby removing any brake on groups like ISIL, is the gift that just keeps on reverberating.

He was captured by Mystique at the end of DoFP. It was interesting that in XM:A, Mystique says something to the effect that she saved a mutant's life, but what he does with that life henceforward is his business. Maybe we can analogize this approach back to DOFP - she uses Stryker's team to pull Lo...

What about the important Republican donors? Will they want to write checks for Trump, or will it all go to the congressional campaigns? Could Trump in fact mostly self-fund, if it hypothetically came down to that?

I heard on NPR this morning that at least some Utah Republicans would vote for Clinton in a Clinton vs Trump matchup. Unlike most other white Republicans, the ones in Utah are a religious minority, so they may not be generalizable. However, what comes to mind is the 2014 referendum on Scottish indep...

I don't own a TV, although I have a projector and DVD player for movies on Saturday night only. I watch a few minutes of TV per week when I'm on the cardio machines at the gym, and that's about all I can stand. BTW, I can still fit into wool pants I bought when I was 18 y.o. (and let's just say that...

The Gulf Stream by Stan Ulanski. And will start Hate Thy Neighbor: How the Bible is Misused to Condemn Homosexuality by Linda Patterson, by this weekend maybe.

This reminds me of the right-wing double standards with regards to the "surge" in Iraq. The surge did involve a few more troops, but experts pointed out that it was the US policy of "engaging" with Sunnis ( = giving them $) which made the real difference. Now, if it had been a De...

I just finished The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. It rambles, but the territory it rambles over is absolutely fascinating. I must visit Cappadocia.
Next up is Bonk.

Oh, yeah, and about that Obama speech to schoolchildren...wasn't W in a school reading a book to the little kids when the news of the 9/11 attacks broke? Why is it OK for W to address the kids but not for Obama?

As far as right-wing double standards, what about the 'tax rebate' that W's administration gave out in 2008 when it was becoming obvious that the economy was spiraling downwards? I wonder if the SC governor kept his (only to self-righteously refuse the economic stimulus the next year). Did everyone ...