Watching Fargo season 2. Makes the 70s look like this dark, apocalyptic time. Are things really worse now or are we just whinier?

70s problems: Horrible economy, crime explosion, nuclear threat from Soviets, Jimmy Carter.

I fully support a Trump versus Oprah 2020 election. Let’s turn into the skid.

Nintendo makes some neat products that look like they’d be fun if you were actually able to buy them.
Still shocked my wife was able to call up Target and then just drive over and pick up a Nintendo Switch on its release day.
She doesn’t even care for video games. She is a good wife.

I remember seeing Bladerunner on VHS as a kid. “A scifi movie starring Harrison Ford! This should be fun!” It was not fun.

Watching my daughter try to solve my all time favorite adventure game puzzle: when you’re tied to the idol in Secret of Monkey Island.

By now we know that even mild criticism will set off a tantrum from the big dumb baby. If we need his help, we have to tiptoe very carefully.
“Great job! You’re super! But we could use even more supplies and aid in Puerto Rico, and we know you can do it because you’re a big boy!”

My 2yo daughter likes to say “Goo goo gah gah.” It’s very meta.

The most fascinating thing about The Good Place is just trying to figure out how in the world they’ll keep the story going.

My kids never say anything woke. I wonder if they’re Trump voters.

Compared to the rest of the season, the Rick and Morty season finale was just dumb, wacky fun.
Ricky and Morty is very clever, but it often gets too nihilistic for my tastes.
Plus, it does seem like they’re writing themselves into a corner with how powerful Rick has become.

It is not the time for thoughts and prayers. It is the time for impotent, unhinged screeching.

Interesting time to push for gun control as president is Republican but doesn’t care much for gun rights (or rights in general).
But a Trump presidency is a really odd time to make the “only the government is benevolent enough to have guns” argument.

Side note: People make fun of the NRA’s “good guy with a gun” argument, but that is the premise of modern government.

The reason mass shootings don’t lead to more gun control is the proposed gun control ideas are terrible and wouldn’t stop mass shootings.
Remember how the response to Sandy Hook was background checks even though the guy stole the guns from his mom? Come on.
“This is a terrible tragedy we never want to see a repeat of, so here’s a law that can’t even pretend would have stopped it!”
It’s like the gun control side has concluded that it has so so much emotion that critical thought is not required. Most disagree.

You think you want gun control, but what you really want is a magic kid who can wish all guns away to the corn field.

Not a big fan of the NRA lately, but the focus on the amount of money they spend like that’s their power is so so dumb.
But this illustrates the main problem of the gun control movement: It has barely any serious people left. It’s just emotion.
They’ve been screeching the same things for decades and only losing the argument, but it never prompts soul searching.
It’s always “Maybe with this tragedy, the same pointless yelling we’ve done for decades will finally be effective.”
It’s hard to watch, is all I’m saying. It’s people thinking they’re very very serious on this issue when they are quite the opposite.

Enjoying the series Fargo which is about them and their battle with their rival town Closestop.
It’s based on the works of the Coen brothers, known for such films as There’s Something About Mary and The Matrix.

Remember: With breaking news, there tends to be a lot of misinformation, so don’t believe anything without a Verrit authentication code.

I know it doesn’t always seem that way, but we live in a blessed time and there is no better time in human history to live.
Imagine showing someone from hundreds of years ago a car. Your smartphone. A supermarket. Hot water at the turn of a knob.
Imagine showing people of ancient times a country made up of people from all over the world, working as one cohesive society.
We still have a lot of work on how we treat each other, but what an advancement it is that that’s a constant concern.
Anyway, point is don’t look so gloomy all the time. If anyone from the past is watching, it makes us look ungrateful.

Can’t we go ahead and pass a non-specific gun control law to end mass shootings? The text of it can just be “Australia!”