I think the more important question here is… who here files The Beatles under T? Because that’s about twelve bridges and a pedestrian overpass too far.
Bob Dylan goes under “D”
No.
Your only other choice is “Z”.
Bond films are under “J” for James Bond
I twitched, I’ll admit it.
I’m not happy with it either, but I can’t find an alternative I like. Putting them at the beginning for “007” feels aesthetically off and “B” for Bond isn’t really any different than J.
That doesn’t make sense to me. If someone comes up to me and says they love James movies, I have no idea what they’re talking about.
So if you have Forrest Gump, you put it at ‘G’ for Gump, Forrest?
If the name of the film was James Bond, I’d file it under “J” too (if I filed alphabetically). Similarly, if they were all “James Bond and the…” a la Harry Potter. But it’s the name of a central character in a series of films that don’t have that character’s name in the film titles, so it’s lastname, firstname. Forrest Gump goes under “F”.
This goes back to my record store days. Jethro Tull and Bob Dylan are both fictional names. But Jethro Tull goes under “J” and Bob Dylan goes under “D” because Bob Dylan is a pseudonym for a particular person, whereas Jethro Tull is a name for the entire band.
Bond films are under “J” for James Bond
I twitched, I’ll admit it.
I’m not happy with it either, but I can’t find an alternative I like. Putting them at the beginning for “007” feels aesthetically off and “B” for Bond isn’t really any different than J.
“F” for Fleming, or use Broccoli as another reason for “B”.
Bond films are under “J” for James Bond
Come on, man, trigger warning please.
s/wouldn’t/couldn’t/
I sort mine autobiographically.
No fucking way.
In most cases, organized by director/creator. Within that director’s section, organized chronologically. TV series are mixed in (chronologically by the start of the series). Blu-rays and DVDs are mixed together. Criterion is mixed in.
That said, there are some movies that get lumped together even though they have different directors. The Star Wars trilogy goes together under “L”. The Studio Ghibli films go together under “M”. Sequels are put together even if there are unrelated one-offs in between, so the whole Star Wars trilogy goes first, then the Holiday Special is after.
It’s a really logical system… for me. The downside is that the rest of the family never knows where to put the movies back – “Dad, I’m trying to put back The Empire Strikes Back but I can’t find the ‘T’ section!” Which is fine because I’d rather do it anyway.
Good news: Trump ends the voter fraud panel.
Bad news: He’s reassigned the “issue” of voter fraud to DHS, which is equally capable of pursuing a voter suppression agenda.
We’re still kinda fucked.
Agreed. But just imagine if someone with a clue about anything at all had some influence with the President.
The startling amateurishness of the Trump team never ceases to amaze me:
https://thinkprogress.org/anonymous-leak-racist-attacks-mueller-trump-da557b23e613/
You have the resources of the President of the United States at your disposal. You have a tight relationship with the end of the news spectrum that deals less in facts and more in sensationalism (your son-in-law ran a New York tabloid, the National Enquirer runs anything you want, Fox News defends your every errant outburst). You have more multimillionaires working with you than any recent President. You have a direct line to Wikileaks and Moscow if you need something to happen, appearing like it came from somewhere else. And all you need to do is discredit Mueller’s investigations.
So what do you do? You just call up your old buddy Richard the gossip columnist over at the New York Post and impersonate an anonymous source. Do you delegate it to a staffer, maybe someone with communications, legal, or media experience? No, you’ve done this impersonation thing before and you have the world’s most convincing fake accent. You cannot leave this to chance – you give up that coveted 1:30 tee time and make the call yourself. Do you run the text of what you say by anyone to see if it sounds either incredibly racist or maybe even idiosyncratically Trumpian? No, man. Hold my beer. I got this.
Seriously, if Trump was even 1% as competent as Nixon or Putin, we’d be fucked.
PM sent. Warning: the full project files are bigger than the ROTJ files you deleted…
Bannon is saying people around Trump were “treasonous” for meeting with the Russian.
Can’t tell if this latest move by Bannon is a play for leniency or relevance.
I hope he gets neither.
I can still see it.
Probably because you’re the author. I saw it before, and it’s definitely not there now.
I don’t know how YouTube comments work (much as I don’t know how sausage is made, because I don’t want to), but using the term “a-hole” probably gave him all the leeway he needed, if he needed any, to remove it. He just argues with everyone else.
It would be fun to see the fur fly if they did ban him. What are his followers going to do? Piss and moan about it on the very site they would now despise. Not like twitter has any real competition.
Trump’s followers have already migrated to Gab since Twitter started their fascist purge. But I suspect that won’t stop them from pissing and moaning anyway, because they’re pros at this point.
From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”Open and shut case.
Actually I think there have been far clearer violations, but they’re numerous enough everything else is just gravy.
The argument of “Twitter is responsible for letting Trump start nuclear war!” seems unconvincing to me. If Twitter has never existed, Trump would have other means to star nuclear war.
No, but the argument “Twitter has rules and procedures for repeated abusers of the platform and it should enforce those rules equally” has some merit.
Lots of people saying Twitter should suspend Trump over this.
I’m not so convinced.
Trump has violated The Twitter Rules about 70 gazillion times already. The question is: how far do the special “Trump Rules” they’ve already crafted just for him extend? Which is the underlying problem with making special carve-outs for important people.
I don’t think (and I don’t know of anyone else who thinks) that Republicans are maliciously trying to hurt anyone.
These things are often packed into an ideology that makes it seem like it’s not hurting people.
For example, there’s a belief that hardworking red states pay the taxes that support the freeloading blue states. So a tax bill that hits blue states harder is about fairness, not hurting people. Similarly, making healthcare unaffordable is about the free market. It’s about choice, not hurting people. And although the data indicates otherwise, there’s a belief that cutting taxes can increase government revenue, because a guy drew it on a napkin once, so we’ll increase those services the second all that extra revenue starts pouring in… any minute now, just wait. In the meantime, here’s another tax cut for rich people. Maybe if we cut them more it’ll work. This time for sure. And so on and so on until you’re Kansas.
I forget where I’d heard this phrase before: “So, you’re saying it’s a conspiracy?” “No, it’s worse than a conspiracy. It’s an ideology.”
Yes, Politico is clearly right-wing because it said almost all Democrats are evil.
brb gonna go shave.
I almost had half a beard after not shaving for a week. I would make a lousy Democrat.
There’s another kind?
Three-quarters of a beard?
This article’s a little outdated, but an important counterpoint to darth_ender’s point:
https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/the-10-best-mustaches-in-congress-169827
Fred Milton Beat Poodle is the best! Especially “When a Dog is Barfing”!
As long as Earnest and Zippy make regular appearances, I suppose it’s the same. New media bah!
Dave Barry writes books now?
Off my lawn.
No chance.
Welcome back
I spent a solid minute trying to figure out how anyone could welcome someone back who didn’t use idiosyncratic line breaks or the word “later”. Turns out you were just welcoming him back.