Weaponizing defamation lawsuits is their new strategy against critics. They got ABC to settle for a fortune, even though Stephanopoulos was factually correct. Im sure the lawyers told George not to take it personally, its only business. Except now they can claim George lied, and Disney admitted it by paying.

Sounds like we need another Free Market correction by an Italian plumber.

Thats supposed to be cautionary, but to the MAGA Nazis, its a Game Plan.

Give the finder $100, and use the other $100 to buy pizza and soda for the crew.

Funny, thats what I call conservatives - A Plague of MAGAs.

It will be a lot more expensive, thats for sure.

So his version of HitlerPig’s John Baron?

I loved Lexx. It was one of those weird science fiction series that were popping up in the 90s as a response to the success of ST: TNG and Battlestar Gallactica. I haven’t watched it in decades, I have to go find it.

I’m listening…

If Disney had supported their star, instead of attacking her, she would have wanted to promote the movie.

Yeah, I love him, too. He’s always great.

I’ve seen that, and figured that was exactly the story. They even used a clip of the Willie’s whistled tune to lock that up, too.

That’s widely considered one of his best performances, among many.

You’re swimming upstream with this one.

Anything Mark Wahlberg is in. I’ve never seen him do a good performance, and I’ve seen him do a LOT of terrible ones. Mediocre is the best he’s got. And yet, he is sure he’s going to get an Oscar one day.

My son, who is an actor and a cinephile, complains about how movies and shows all have actors who look like actors, and don’t look like real people. He often talks about “iPhone Face,” where a character in a period piece like a 19th century western, looks like they know what an iPhone is.

Sorry, no, exactly the opposite. I watch YouTube when I want to learn something. Netflix is what I turn to when I have a couple of hours to kills.

First season was great. Season 2 is one of my most anticipated shows.

They’ve had cocktails for years, that’s nothing new. I don’t buy them, because the only time I bought a beer in a movie theater, they charged me $12. That was pre-Covid. Its probably $18 now. How do they think that charging those predatory proces is going to entice people back to the movies?

With those predatory prices, I have no moral qualms with bringing in my own. I stop at Dollar Tree on the way to the theater, buy my snacks there (they have candy in noiseless movie boxes for $1.25 instead of $8), and sneak in those and a bottle of water. I’ve been doing that for many years, and nobody has ever said a thing. My son walks in with a tote bag full of groceries, and nobody ever stops him.

I just remebered a very little known fact about Washington: his mother was a full blown narcissistic bitch, who belittled and publicly humiliated him thoughout his life. She never acknowledged any of his amazing accomplishments, routinely disparaging him as a bad son. He paid for everything for her out of his pocket, but she was constantly asking for more, and berating him for being a terrible son. Once, while he was out fighting the Revolution, she petitioned the Continental Congress for money, because her worthless son wasn’t taking proper care of her, embarassing the most respected man in America in front of the entire nation.

Despite her terrible behavior, he shouldered the responsibility of taking care of her as he felt he was obligated to do, without any public complaints.

When George Washington was a young man in his early 20s, he went on an expedition into the American wilderness (basically the Ohio territory) with a small group. It was a harrowing trip with several disasters in which expedition members died. The survivors nearly starved to death, and barely made it home alive.

Washington wrote a short memoir of the trip, and it became a best-seller, and gave him his first bit of national fame. Young George Washington would make a great movie.

Washington was a larger than life character who has never been properly presented in film. He was nearly a super hero. He was bigger, taller, stronger, and better built than most men, and considered very handsome, charming, and charismatic. His legendary bravery in battle was driven by his belief that he was literally protected by God. His strength of character and commitment to honor is iconic, and not just a myth. He had a list of honorable characteristics that he lived by. He was loved and respected by men, especially those who served with him, who exhibited a fierce loyalty to him.

Women loved him as well, and he was known to dance with every woman at the many events he was invited to, while Martha watched from the sidelines. He strongly respected women, and one of his closest lifelong friends was a woman who also acted as a close advisor. Despite the fact that women were attracted to him, he was fully devoted to Martha, and was never accused of affairs. She burned all of his letters to her before she died, so we’ll never know the intimate details of their marriage, but by all accounts they were very close and loving.

His life contains several chapters that would make amazing movies - his wilderness trip, his attack on the French to start the French & Indian War, his leadership of the American Revvolution, and more.

Its gone away over the last generation or two, but Washington used to be venerated in American schools for better than two centuries for good reasons. Every potential presidential candidate should have to read a few biographies of Washington before being allowed to run, so they can see the template of what a real president should be.