The Hall of Fire

Let's hear it for rampant, cyclical cynicism!









ETA: AND insolent pups!

I think what my wise friends are trying to point out is that some politicians are more worthy of cynicism than others. That is a good point. The fact that I doubt all politician's words and truthfulness at some level, and I do believe all of them are interested in power, and they should be, as powe...

I will hide my genuine cynicism about politicians in general from now on. :sunny: Why would you do a silly thing like that? I think what my wise friends are trying to point out is that some politicians are more worthy of cynicism than others. That is a good point. The fact that I doubt all politici...

Griff, thank you (and I do mean that!) for your answer. The Democrats sure talk more like people I would want to know. I will hide my genuine cynicism about politicians in general from now on. :sunny: Frelga, I understand what you are saying, and I can totally see where that is coming from. Thanks t...

Republican politicians are all too ready to lick the sweet, sweet droplets of power off of whichever boots are available. Is this not true of politicians in general? I'm genuinely asking. Power is everything to any politician worth his/her salt, I would think. Or, in your estimation, it is only Rep...

But would we have known that molecules with that certain structure can do what they do without chlorophyll to study? Circular thought there, isn't it. I've often pondered how often our "inventions" are based on structures already in use by nature for time out of mind. The structure of cam...

Why is this happening??? Purple America Has All But Disappeared - Counties are increasingly super red or super blue, with less and less in between. It's an awful, dangerous trend. :neutral: It is. We just saw a GREAT video presentation by our CEO (he is just so good, I wish I could share it here wi...

I'm not sure that Fisk is just a well-educated mobster. :) I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one. Well I'd need some compelling evidence to the contrary. Really, is he any more than Tony Soprano dialled to Eleven? Yeah, he's more sophisticated, but he's a still just a sensitive, cha...

I'm not sure that Fisk is just a well-educated mobster. I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one.

I adore Kilgrave in Jessica Jones. Such a frightening concept. I dunno. I think I've seen this sort of character before, someone with a superpower that makes them a very dangerous spoiled brat. Actually, one of the original Star Trek series episodes had a character like that. It's amazing how many ...

Well then forget it. I agree... dark for dark's sake is a waste of my time. But Daredevil... MAN, I think I kept watching it over and over just to soak up Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk. Bad guys tend to be pretty one dimensional, in my cinematic experience, and this guy? Amazingly layered characte...

The problem with this position is that you basically throw it open for everyone to resort to violence if they believe their opponents’ position is sufficiently reprehensible. For example – people who advocate for legalised abortion are advocating infanticide, and therefore must be opposed with viol...

I liked Daredevil, but I didn't take to the other associated shows Jennifer Jones and Like Cage. However the show I have been watching most this week is The Grand Tour, one probably shouldn't admit to it in polite company, but it's a show which I find consistently lol funny I liked Jennifer Jones w...

The mom missing her child IS scary! Again, I think it's Spielberg, and he is just so good at these kinds of things. I will never have to fight a battle or a dragon or shoot in a salon. True. But the violence in Stranger Things has to do with a telekinetic, psychic child opening a portal into another...

I found Stranger Things way scarier than Westworld, precisely because it was so much more real and so much more close to my reality as a child in the eighties I'm sorry, Nin, maybe this is once again because we grew up speaking different languages, but I don't understand this. Stranger Things is &q...

It definitely indicates that the country as a whole is neither entirely Obama's nor entirely Trump's, and probably never has been. I find that to be quite an encouraging notion. That's a quite interesting post. It broadly reflects my feelings about Obama: I was generally satisfied with his domestic...

I read this title as "Nurse Mythology".

I think that would be a good read.

I'm not sure where this link best fits, but it certainly shouldn't be in a thread titled "Trump's America". This is a polling representation of Obama's America, and I found it to be very interesting.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/ob ... 8_PollingT

Wow. Thank you for the post, Sir V, I had no idea about the arc of her life and beliefs. She was an interesting woman.