Funny bit.

Now tell me how sad you are that Carter died.

In all of American history, lotsa old white men with much higher body counts. Biden's banal evil doesn't hold a torch to someone like Andrew Jackson.

In modern history, I'm pretty sure George W still beats out Biden on every measure, The only difference being George W could draw a clock.

He is an evil decrepit monster, but within the Pantheon of evil that are former US presidents, I'm not sure he breaks the top third most evil.

I thought the wildfires were happening in LA, not New York.

Must every discussion of Foreign Policy over the next four years begin with a long denunciation of Trump? Would that satisfy your liberal requirements and allow us to proceed with actual discussions of the material realities (including the fact that as evil as Trump is he managed to kill less brown children than Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Biden)?

The world would be a better place if this troop suck-started a shotgun.

You're right, I shouldn't peak shame.

It was also a commercial flop, that doomed the company that created it to bankruptcy.

I understand taking design cues from the DeLorean, I don't understand why they decided to replicate DeLorean Motors any% bankruptcy speedrun

The only problem with this analysis is that, from what I remember, everyone in his highschool hated him.

So, more like "what a perennial loser thinks someone who peaked in Highschool would be like" which is even sadder.

You have ghosts in your blood. You should do some cocaine. I will be billing your insurance $500.

Not that I have seen, but I don't think I am caught up.

Star Trek Prodigy turned him into Kirkland Brand Dr. Who.

When section 31 was introduced they were meant to be like the CIA (bad)

But in our post 9/11 world, they're meant to be like the CIA (good)

I'm going to watch it, because I'm a good little piggy and I appreciate my slop, but I'm not expecting much.

Mr Beareralli

Growing up in Florida, the refrain was "thank God for Mississippi" - no matter what stupid things our state government did, how badly we ranked, we could always point to Mississippi and say thank God we're not that bad.

Oklahoma fulfills the same role for Texas.

I was referring to a famous Japanese wood block printing of a similar name.

Point being, do artists really require "porn films" to create pornographic media?

I think someone could argue that the animators are still being exploited along with voice actors, they use a lot of the same distribution channels, and I'm definitely not going to defend the content of a lot of hentai, but it seems silly to say that hentai requires live action pornography in order to be created, when people have been drawing lewd pictures for millennia.

My point is that the reference material used in the production of hentai is very commonly "real life" porn.

Doesn't the existence of "the fisherman's wife" kinda undermine your point here?

Joe biden has last time to do something very funny

It's been a long time, but I devoured that series! It's not high art but in terms of Star Trek slop it was grade A.

Lots in Austin too.

In the case of someone like Parenti, who vigorously resisted anti-soviet inclinations, I wonder how much of it was related to the sino-soviet split.

I have no material basis for this, and I have done no investigation. I may be way off base and I'm happy to be corrected:

But I have to imagine if you are a public intellectual in the '80s, trying to point out that the Soviet Union is not an evil empire, that more often the United States are the bad guys and the Soviets are the ones acting in good faith, the sino-soviet split had to be an unwelcome complication. Especially with Chinas rapprochement with the Nixon/Carter admins, their actions in Vietnam/Cambodia, etc.

In 2025, I pray for the day that Chinese amphibious carriers land troops on the west coast. If it were 1978 I would probably feel a little differently, and would probably be much more sympathetic to the Soviets.

One of these days I'm going to sit down and read a few books about the sino-soviet split. It is one of my biggest blind spots. I've avoided it because It feels so tragic, and unnecessary.