Your Mid-Week Experiment
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“I thought if we could laugh at MAGA hard enough, maybe Mr. Trump would go away, ashamed. But we should realize that under this administration, being funny and famous will not protect you. Even being rich won’t. Meanwhile, the “do not obey in advance” guy, Timothy Snyder, has moved to Canada.” -Molly Jong Fast, on the de-Colbertification of CBS (gift link)
“The larger Epstein belief system is QAnon for people who went to college.” -Ben Smith (free link)
Held my attention without overcomplicating stuff.
Loved, loved, loved Black Mirror S7 E3
Rare to see Bill Murray play a bad guy or Jennifer Coolidge play this sort of person, but overall the movie came off messy and unfocused.
Messy with references to John Wick, Man on Fire, The Equalizer, Southern gothic vampires, underground vampires, and the Taken franchise—all without, mind you, a single vampire—A Working Man adds up to less than the sum of its parts. David Ayer (writer of Training Day and The Fast and the Furious and director of Suicide Squad and The Beekeeper) co-wrote this with Sylvester Stallone; both has some explaining to do. Mind you, S and I would have accepting a middling, self-aware good time. A Working Man was abundantly awful. If this movie were an odor, we’d move.
Hard to overstate how pointless this movie was.
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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.