This thread made me think of a possible pitch for a dark comedy a la Slow Horses where a couple of secret service agents, one who screwed up once big time, the other just a general screw up, get assigned to a long shot 3rd party celebrity candidate.
There is no coherent basis for giving RFK Secret Service protection other than people being dumb and superstitious about his last name. If you're actually lowering the bar that much, there would be many, many more candidates getting each cycle than ever actually do.
United States Postal Service Jacket in the 'Member's Only' style.
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"Hi, Susanna, this is Morty at Columbia. You gals' new track? Sounds great, but I have just one small suggestion..."
(Actually, til that Prince wrote that song).
Best part of Russian novels is that you’re never quite sure if a new name is a new character vs a character you already know being addressed by their barber instead of their mom
This one hurts. Evan Wright was among the best of the GWOT journalists and brought a look into the life of enlisted men in a way I think few actually appreciated, regardless of how much his work sold. It took real courage to do what he did while making his portrayals honest.
I appreciated the straight-forward mention of suicide in the lede paragraph.
I knew Wright only through his work, but every death diminishes us.
Check-in with your buddies. Hug your kids.
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in all the (appropriate) memorializing of Shelley Duvall as a performer in the work of male auteur directors, spare a thought for her own auteur work: Faerie Tale Theatre was one of the few actually good media products aimed at children in the 1980s, but because it didn't sell toys it's forgotten
Obviously Thomas is completely corrupt and evil and bought by Crow but it's funny that the "Putin's home town" in question is Saint Petersburg. Like it's some obscure place an old fucking conservative weirdo, or anyone interested in history really, wouldn't want to visit for free.
The Thomas went to “Putin’s hometown” thing is so fucking stupid. American politicians are fully capable of being corrupt and evil on their own. Not everything has to be laundered through Russia.
Like, maybe Biden is uniquely weak where other Democrats have been able to take advantage of the national mood, but I think that's basically unprovable. Moreover, I think it's shocking that House Democrats have witnessed these performances & yet are convinced that Biden's going to get them massacred
there’s a case to be made that the biden freakout is not actually about biden but about the zero-real-job-experience dork pundit class having no real polling to go on for the first time in their lives and reacting by having a big one
When polls are saying Biden is up five in Michigan but New York is a battleground and Trump has 40% of the African American vote but Biden has 60% of the elderly, idk man polls are fucked some sort of way. Maybe Biden loses a historic landslide or he’s up by 5 but they’re fucked some sort of way
*yelling with a bullhorn*
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