NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
In two days, a Star Wars spin-off TV show, The Acolyte, will premier on Disney+. The eight episode season will cost $180 million. It’s hard to believe anyone thinks this show will be successful.
The author of the commentary, Jonathan Chait, describes himself as a liberal hawk. He is a committed anti-Trumper, but has criticized liberals and conservatives.
Disney spent a quarter billion dollars to build, Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel, and it only remained open for a year and a half. This girl spent $6000 to be immersed in the experience. Fortunately, she’s cute and made an engaging 4-hour video about her Star Wars adventure that’s been viewed by 7 million people. She should recoup her expenses.
The Trump conviction was a partisan hit job by a rogue prosecutor and a corrupt district attorney. Every thing you need to know is in that headline.
The Democratic National Convention, where the president would otherwise be formally nominated, comes after Ohio’s ballot deadline of Aug. 7. The party’s convention is scheduled for Aug. 19-22.
For over a decade, the DNC knew that Ohio had an early deadline for presidential candidates to get on the ballot. The DNC paid no attention to the deadline, so Biden wasn’t going to be on the ballot in Ohio unless someone did something to fix the problem.
Vox: Companies don’t care about Woke.
Have you ever wondered why people you know to be smart and reasonable, can be so politically different from you? People get their information from different sources and this article is a perfect example. Nothing is necessarily wrong, it just misses the point and leaves out some important parts.
The concept of nudging has become popular in the past few years—using psychological tactics to subtly steer people toward making better decisions that are aligned with their own interests or societal goals.
Recreation of actual event.
Sparky is a courteous dog. He can wander anywhere he wants, but he acts as if the bathroom doesn’t exist. Even if he’s dying to tell me something, if I’m in the bathroom, he goes somewhere else and tries to look busy.
Storms make Sparky active and agitated, but he says he’s not afraid. He just wants to be near me in case I need his help. It started to rain, so I was done moving firewood into the wood shed. When I came in, I took a shower.
Sparky came by to hang out. He tried to be casual about it. “So, you think I can drive the quad tomorrow? Were there any mice in the wood pile? Why are you standing in house rain when there is outside rain? Are you sure this is safe? I’ll just wait here.”
Trigger warnings are bullshit like all the other snowflake crap they foist on us. Trigger warnings could be good, but acceptable trigger warnings are about content that mentions guns, racism, homophobia or transphobia. Calling it a trigger warning implies that a person with PTSD could suffer deep anguish and mental suffering.
In reality, a trigger warning indicates topics that Progressive crybullies wish didn’t exist.
Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm just dropped on Amazon Prime. It’s getting some coverage and is rated highly on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.
You should watch it anyway. Think of it as a real-life version of Green Acres, but with much better production values.
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