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Terrible, terrible place.

I was so much happier when I realized that Staples had almost as much tech stuff. Staples staff answers all my dumb questions clearly and never tries to oversell.

Why did it mean a lot to you? If you don’t mind sharing.

Details?

The movies “Her” and “Network” went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.

Of course there are plenty of ‘moderate bipartisan’ GOPs who give lip service to centrist positions. Then they vote right down the Party line.

An immigrant and a Harvard professor?

This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.

New Yorker here.

It’s going to be an interesting race.

His best chance to win is if the Right goes all out in making it a fight between him and MAGA. Trump lost his home town by 80% plus of the vote

They didn’t make me a manager until I had been on the job for over a decade.

One day I look at an old favorite, “The Dirty Dozen.”

Early on, the Major is ordered to meet with the General, who tells him he has to train twelve condemned prisoners for a suicide mission behind the German lines. The Major obeys the orders, but opines that whoever came up with the plan must be insane. The General tells him to shut up and go; then the General tells his staff that the idea is insane.

Then the Major has to meet the troops and convince each man that it’s in his best interests to join the mission.

Being given stupid orders and then having to lead a bunch of psychos and idiots to achieve the goal is the essence of being a middle manager.

otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.

Sounds like you’d have given up Helen before second breakfast.

Do yourself a favor. Spend Christmas through New Year’s in the town you’re planning on moving to first.

I can’t wait for his biopic.

His father was up there with Robert Altman as an independent director.

He was in “Weird Science” as a bully when he was 19. Kept getting movie roles even when he was being arrested on a weekly basis. Turned his life around and got sober.

Be interesting to see if they can find an actor to play him.

Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.

https://youtu.be/OPgId7RgQ2E full movie

https://youtu.be/vO5aZjfOIPs trailer

You didn’t challenge anyone to improve themselves. You tried to impose your ideas on other people. There’s a difference.

Cheers.

it could not have happened and would not have happened, for essentially economic reasons.

The interesting alternative histories are ones that turn on a single fortuitous event.

You said it couldn’t happen, then said that there are ways it could have happened.

Also, if you don’t want to be part of the discussion, you are free to stay out. other people are participating and enjoying themselves.

You are contradicting yourself.

Hitler left orders not to be awakened so he slept in on D-Day. Rommel had left his post. Think that wouldn’t have changed things?

Stalin had dozens of warnings that Hitler planned to invade. What if he’d taken even one seriously?

What if Hitler had let the Army get the glory at Dunkirk and steamrolled the troops on the beach?

I can think of dozens of times the course of the War changed by the actions of one person.

https://youtu.be/F-Vz67p5kLQ

I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.

It’s one of those things that sound reasonable until you actually spend a minute thinking about the details.

Minting money. Starting a post office. Borders. People who work out of state.

I think that first wife Ivana dressed him until he dumped her.

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The Queen’s Fool by Phillipa Gregory. The story of Bloody Mary, told through the eyes of one of her fools. The fool is a Jewish woman who has visions. Very well researched novel.

“Snake Pliskin? I thought he was dead.”

In the script, the author says that the fight between Inigo and Wesley is the second greatest fight in the history of the movies. The final fight is supposed to be the best ever.