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Huh. I've had back problems for 40 years but it's never been a topic in my dreams.
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I've taught academic writing for more than twenty years, mostly at a commuter college. I also have been he speech team coach and a sketch I wrote got into a play writing festival held on campus.
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Huh. I've had back problems for 40 years but it's never been a topic in my dreams.
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Keep waiting for someone to bring this up, but so far no: Prohibition. The law said 1 thing, the American people said nope. The idea that the people will go along with a law that they think is wrong is WRONG. It's why pot is pretty much legal now. "Oh, you have immunity? How well do you duck?"
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"The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice."--Montesquieu
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Soooo.... Justice "I-Love-Me-Some-Bribes" is concerned about the legal legitimacy of, well, anything. Got it.
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I can't recommend this 1995 essay enough: https:archive.org/details/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.
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Who is this person and how quickly can I join his fan club?
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I've enjoyed some superhero movies in the past couple of years but suspect the general public might be done with them.
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I'm also struck by how much this is not reading history. During the period of "the Old West" we had people who if they were victimized by crime might not have had a marshal or a sheriff to go to. Guess what they did? Vigilante city, baby. This ruling is going to play out as well as Prohibition did.
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I agree. Infuriating.
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I had recently posted somewhere, well, we'll never get anything like the Reichstag Fire Act. However, this immunity ruling might be it.
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Setting aside all the legalistic blah blah blah, there are two or three guns in America for every person, and the social blessings of the response of rage....So....How is this Supreme decision a good idea? Or a peaceful one?
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Hey, "db," explain this to me: How is trying to overthrow the Constitution like "governing like a big standard Republican"?
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Then how was it "moderating" if CNN wasn't fact checking? What do they think journalism is?
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And yet Trump told his endless lies during the debate with loud confidence & CNN apparently think that's cool....Will whoever is working on the next evil clown movie switch it to an evil "news" TV network please? Thanks.
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I won't say what, but my roommate & I were watching something last night that had a tangential connection to David Bowie. "David Bowie got to the future before anybody else." He replied, "Oh, you got to write that down." Okay. I'm writing it down here.
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And I want to put in a good word for "My Life is Murder" the feel-good murder mystery show with Lucy Lawless. Cheerfully unrealistic about the way way crime and murder is really like, funny and true about what people are like.
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More than one voice has said here in the morning after re: the moderators, :"You know, computers could do the same thing."
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Yeah, that's what it feels like. SCOTUS was, I think, supposed to be a thing that kept us on track and has devolved into partisan hackery.
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I use to read A LOT of Harlan Ellison and I remember him using that phrase in his nonfiction.
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Strange. It's usually the fat air most people save.
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Doctor's apt. today. As I was leaving a woman came in about my age (I'm in my 60s) wearing a T shirt reading, "I'm a Trump Girl!" Please let us retire this idea that anyone governing us or who wants to govern us has to be interesting or charismatic or whatever.
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Deal me out. I love all of you nuts.
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Dear God Cracked is getting insular. In one of their listicles re:TV/movie trivia, they stop ID'ing the name of the show or movie. "Here's a photo. We all know what movie it is, right, when we tell you Jon Hamm almost played the dad?"
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There's some quote by a Nazi re: as soon as he hears the word "art" he reaches for his pistol. Art, when it really works, often challenges our ideas about everything. The Third Man & The Wishmaster franchise but have "bad guys," but ......
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This.Is. Terrible. And what's with the evil marriage between political activism and straight up vandalism?
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Libraries are dominated by lots & lots & lots of books on shelves which doesn't sync with the oppressive ethos of digital/online culture.
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Trump's lawyers didn't have him testify because he's a compulsive liar. Like his obesity, he could do something about it if he had moral character and discipline.
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--of commentary on movies that just about anybody can do and later with the public Internet and have an audience.
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I forget why now, but many years ago I was walking down Michigan Avenue and passed Gene Siskel going in the opposite direction, not taking his worried eyes off the coffee he held. The Cybertruck is one of the signs of the end of Tech Bro Love in the Zeitgeist. Siskel & the other guy created a form
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God bless! It would be great for America if one of the most financially successful corporations had a unionized work force.
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John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13.
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2) Is there anything close to an American agreement about our history or the daily news? "We-are-so-polarized" is keeping us away from a rerun of history's most hellish dystopia.
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1) There are bad things that might still happen to the USA, but we're never going to see Nazi Germany: The Sequel. THAT depended on agreement that the Reichstag fire was communist & was a sign of future bad communist deeds to come.
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The President's Analyst, Suspiria, Full Metal Jacket, The Game
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😂
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I just finished the 1st draft of a comedy-feminist-fantasy, featuring a maybe not so ordinary woman and a dragon who isn't the smartest creature and the possibility of sequels.
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Something from the Evil Clown genre, I assume. I asked Google, and counting all media, The Joker has been played by TWENTY ACTORS.
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Hmmm, I'm going to go with "no." By the way, a new WATCHMEN animated cartoon is a boring idea. Oh, and read Moore's "Mirror of Love," everybody.
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Hmmm....No, I don't think they do.
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My old cat when taking a nap would drape a paw over her eyes. "Taking a nap. SERIOUSLY, leave me alone."
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"Dicklips"? Is this from X? Is this the type of thing on X now?
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Welles considered it his best movie.
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You know how wrong the world is in the classic Shirley Jackson short story "The Lottery"? That's the level of wrong in what Alito is saying. It's like a cop saying he's only going to arrest people with brown eyes.
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So, you don't hang out on YouTube, then. Probably a good idea.
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In writing this SF story, I replaced the hero's murdered wife and young daughter with his murdered white poodle Melvin, killed when an evil A.I. dropped a disco ball on the poor pooch. So---macho angst but via MAD magazine.
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In the 1980s at a film student party I mentioned I had been to the theater three times to see ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. She made it a point to avoid me for the rest of the evening.
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Musk said the case and conviction against was an error so, yeah, I'm sure he's telling the truth about not getting things....
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I assume when I had a heart attack while teaching a class in early March I assume some students videoed it, esp. when the EMTs showed. & I suppose there's no good way to ask them to delete that video & not keep it around for...?
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