Dark Laughter

In retrospect, making one of the antagonists a nihilistic attention-seeking mass shooter was way ahead of its time. I don't think they could have written it this way after Columbine.

Man, right down to the Danny Elfman soundtrack too.

Watching The Frighteners. Again, this movie is like Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh made a better Tim Burton movie than Tim Burton could have in 1996.

It kind of seems like Zohran is running to be mayor of Metropolis and Cuomo is running to be mayor of Gotham.

If only Christ had expressed a clear position on giving people fish

Your scenario convinced me the Eisenhower School should make students watch Shin Godzilla.

"Maybe so, but I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat."

I would argue for a glass half full view, that Vance is so young it's almost inevitable he'll be held accountable one way or another, and he'll most likely spend a lifetime as a pariah.

There's an argument that giving students bonkers scenarios and asking for serious responses is a pretty effective way to challenge their thinking. I think @drfarls.bsky.social is the king of these with scenarios like "okay, vampires are real, write the USG policy response."

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Remember when misspelling "potato" was politically disqualifying?

Was the image on this supposed to be a guillotine?

Or I guess IATF-G since I imagine State and maybe DoE would have roles in it.

a giant monster is coming out of the ground in a crowded city . ALT: a giant monster is coming out of the ground in a crowded city .

Did they do CJTF-G?

I think it's just another problem caused by the equivocation implicit in "wargame," where we talk like our main goal is engaging a warfighting problem, but we also expect it to be a certex that validates comm/aviation/fires/logistics and oh by the way it's also IO so blue can't lose.

Me: "Can we add a storyline where the president threatens to invade one of the exercise partners?"
EXCON graybeard: "NO, STOP ASKING!"

Also an example of why historical cases are better than constructed scenarios. Constructed scenarios have to make sense, but reality can be as weird as it wants to. Shown dramatically by an AI, designed to make probabilistically plausible things, rejecting real news as probabilistically implausible.

This is like how rhetoricians used to compose defenses of Helen of Troy.

Personally, if my security entourage's car had just accidentally been hit with shrapnel by guys who constantly train with artillery, I wouldn't be in a hurry to observe any tests of nuclear weapons by guys who haven't set one off in like 30 years.

I think changing their fundamental doctrine from centralized control to mission command by decree with an immature NCO corps a year before a major military operation is a great idea, and I hope the PLA embraces this bold strategy.

I do like how Landry comes off sounding like he's saying Trump is his laughably bad option for making the choice. I'll bet he gets an angry call from the WH about that and has to clarify these remarks.

If he lets Trump pick the next coach, Trump's going to re-hire Brian Kelly, because Kelly's going to offer him a giant bribe from the dump truck of cash he's already gotten from LSU. We saw this kind of "buy your job back" shit from plenty of police chiefs in OIF/OEF.

I wonder when he's going to realize that McLaughlin's going to throw him to the wolves the same way Noem is going to try to throw McLaughlin to the wolves.

I think all of us can kind of foresee and are looking forward to that future moment when the DHS social media edgelord is on TV looking like a plastic bag full of cottage cheese while his parents say this lapse in judgment shouldn't ruin his entire life.

That was a really good recommendation @johncarlbaker.bsky.social

He's saying it was from 2007, five years before it first blew up, which I could have understood. But then there's all the shit he's said since, and it's like okay, no, you don't get to give a 2007 response in 2025 after all of that.

Long story short, while there are serious problems with getting a Nazi tattoo, even one some dumb fucking kid might not immediately realize its meaning, like a valknot, the REAL problems tend to start with what comes out of their mouths after they realize what it is.