Saw that gun control episode of Arrow. Just highlighted to me how far the Overton window had moved to the right on guns.
And isn’t Green Arrow traditionally a big left-winger in the comics? Oliver had mainly been apolitical in the show, even as mayor.
A couple decades ago, you’d expect show like this to conclude ban all guns, but that’s not even an acceptable position to mention anymore.
Then again, a really anti-gun position would be kind of untenable for a group of armed vigilantes.
I remember once Supernatural trying to venture a pro-gun control line, but it’s like, you guys have a trunk full of illegal guns.
I kinda want to punch myself when I use the phrase Overton window.
All this Trump tax return stuff did is emphasize to me how much the rich pay in taxes.
Can you imagine giving $38 million to the feds when you know they’re just going to waste most of it? Oy.
Think of how much someone competent and with a little skin in the game could do with $38 million.
If the Democrats actually run Chelsea Clinton, we deserve at least four Trump terms.
“Bing, please find me the website ‘Google.'”
I love how the new Zelda broke dungeons up into a hundred pieces so now they’re short puzzle breaks instead of hours long slogs.
The dungeons were always fun to a point, but the joy in Zelda was always the over world.
Isn’t Sesame Street a billion dollar ip that makes tons in merchandising? That’s like giving tax dollars to Disney.
John Lithgow’s name in the murder comedy is Henderson?
Hellboy’s father had a way different career path.
My daughter got really angry at the term “weekend” since Sunday is the beginning of the week.
Some on the left claim that the vacant SCOTUS seat belongs to Merrick Garland. What has the SCOTUS rules on SCOTUS seat ownership?
Before you get upset, just remember that however we decide to fill a SCOTUS seat, it’s stupid.
Whining about Merrick Garland is just saying, “We got a different dumb outcome than the dumb outcome I wanted.”
Why people keep mentioning Sesame Street? Do tax dollars go to HBO? Are we using federal funds to clothe all the naked people on Game of Thrones?
Don’t think the Dems have real plan to stop Gorsuch. One spent his time holding hand close to Gorsuch’s face saying, “I’m not touching you!”
Back when I followed comics, there was a scene where he was meeting a different hero in a city wrecked by an earthquake:
Ever since then, I haven’t been able to take Green Arrow seriously as anything but a villain. If the show corrects this, then I might give it a chance.
“My daughter got really angry at the term “weekend” since Sunday is the beginning of the week.” Soul sister! That really, really upset me when I was a kid. And now that you have reminded me, my OCD brain is obsessing once again. Thanks ever so much.
I always assumed it was “end” as in “the two ends of a pole” rather than “the final one in the ordering”. Of course, I’ve since learned that some European agencies treat Monday as the first day of the week, so, yeah…
Ooh, thinking of “weekend” as the calendar equivalent of “bookend” does help – although it really should be “weekends,” whispers my nitpicking little brain. Basically, I have learned to think of it as the end of the work week, which is not the same as a week-week, just as a workday is not the equivalent of a day-day. Saturday is the end of a generic week, and the weekend is the end of a work week. Mmm, sweet peace in the brain.
When you mentally count ahead ten days or so to determine on which day of the week a given day will fall on, do you envision the week(s) ahead as a calendar portrays them?
I don’t.
I have this weird oval-shaped mental image, where Saturday and Sunday are at the top of a loop, and the five workdays are the bottom of the loop. Wednesday is in the six o’clock position — the exact opposite of being a “hump day.”
My Dad always told me that my weak end was my head.
Merrick Garland: “I called it first!”
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