Ben Soskin

Actually, building denser housing in cities so more people can live in cities instead of in overbuilt exurbs is conserving resources and saving the climate:

Brian Cox as Mel Belli in Zodiac, accepting compliments for his Star Trek guest spot

The director of the first Igby movie went on to do money jobs like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, so I have no doubt he’d jump at the chance to do an Igby-fights-the-CHUDs movie.

“Igby Goes Down II: Igby Goes Further Down.”

I'm sorry, but I just can't envision Jean-Claude et al. filling the roles first immortalized in the '83 Casablanca TV show by the likes of David Soul and Hector Elizondo. (SPOCK: "Ah. The giants.")

Tiny Dracula: Balok.

I believe you're thinking of the Sovereign-Class Tech Fund at the Federation Agency for Disruptor Innovation (aka Geordi's eventual post-Starfleet sinecure)

Correct (well, I'd say 2024 was inflation and general post-pandemic grumpiness; hard to know).

And then add: ~40% of the US electorate is solid GOP/Dem partisan but since our pol culture discourages voting for party, their vote choice in every election *precedes* their reasons for that choice.

I'm reminded of Douglas Adams' rulebook for Brockian ultra cricket, which ends as follows: "The winning team shall be the first team that wins."

Question is, how many more Marys do we cycle through before Sally Field comes in?

"Cwisis"

Hope the Scottie Pippen reference is an homage to James Doohan's distinguished work as the Scotty-esque "Pippen" on "Homeboys in Outer Space."

As long as New Church isn't just Chris Pratt and a couple other guys.

Kirk

Reminds me of Sudeikis-as-Mitt taking on his campaign-trail pandering duties with shameless gusto.

A warrior's drink!

Stetson, famously known as the Harvard of Volusia County. Well, *West* Volusia County, at least.

(Shades of the Beatles' "Mr. Wilson"/"Mr. Heath" shoutouts in "Taxman")

A poli sci angle for this is that "When the Whip Comes Down" (at least in some live versions) is the rare Brit-written rock song to delve into US state-level politics: "Mr. Rockefeller, he won't give me no loan, and Mr. Brown, he don't want me back home..."

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Yes - important to recognize those who are standing up to Trump. He loses all the time, and as awful as his attacks on democracy and his victories are - as dangerous as he and his allies are - he's unpopular and inept, and very vulnerable to further defeats.

IIRC, that was the one where the son developed a brain tumor which turned him into a Republican

Willoughby, a curiously 1960s-ish figure in the 1980 of “Everybody Wants Some!!”

Linklater had thoughts on this.

a man with a mustache is wearing a hat and a suit . Alt: a man with a mustache is wearing a hat and a suit .

RIP Robert Redford, you were one of the good ones 💔

Ordinary People is so good. Parts of Ebert’s review have always stuck with me.

Glad I'm not too late to make the joke about Dame Maggie showing up as a force ghost at the end

The Richard Whiteman (@RichardWhitem16) account on Twitter, which parodies the Rose Twitter types of cosplay Leftists, on June 4, 2021: > I’ve been noticing that some “progressives” around here are backsliding to the point of supporting achievable political goals, and I just wanted to let y’all know that you disgust me. 😤 Reply to himself: > Unachievable👏🏻Was👏🏻The👏🏻Compromise🤦🏼‍♂️

I keep going back to this parody account:

YouTube video by Steve Shives Starfleet Lawyer

I hope the "defends her" literally means that Crusher serves as defense counsel in the inevitable Act 3/4/5 courtroom showdown, in which the ship's JAG team once again gets shunted to the side so that the senior officers can pretend to be lawyers