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Sorry to hear about Hamish. A bit short of notice for me to be posting this, but...

Who is out there saying 1999 was the best year for movies?

I can see why people would not be enthusiastic about Biden (although they were never enthusiastic about Bernie either so cultists using this as a drive for him make no real sense to me). I can't say I watch him and feel very inspired. But it's time to grow up. If people are still "both sides-ing" now, when the President is bragging about how if governors don't do what he wants he will let people die, then there is zero hope of any change ever happening.

Alan Merrill has passed due to complications from the virus. He was a big name in Japan many years ago, but may be best known for writing "I Love Rock and Roll." @OzFrog @Roman the network that airs BBCanada pulled the plug last week as Canada is moving into only essential productions. I think the episodes where they learn and leave will air next week. (BBCan has been a mess for many years anyway but this is not the right thread for that discussion...) Sorry if this was already posted. And [!@#$%^&*] you, Falwell. Lovely from James McAvoy. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/29/james-mcavoy-donates-257000-to-nhs-medics-ppe-crowdfunding-appeal

I can't be surprised, but it's still so stunningly, crushingly cruel. And yet this is what the public seemingly approves of.

Tom Coburn, ex-Congressman and Senator for Oklahoma, has passed. I remember his Senate race against Brad Carson, one of the first that the netroots was heavily involved in, and reading comments like one who said his father was in a nursing home, knowing he didn't have very long left, but still wanted to made sure he voted for Carson. I also remember how shocking I thought Coburn's comments about Schindler's List were at the time - seems almost quaint now. He at least believed in term limits, and treated Obama like a human being, instead of the great evil. That is also something which many in both parties today are loath to do, sadly. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/28/obituary-former-sen-tom-coburn-152711

This is why I have no time for the easy narratives pushed everywhere about how smart and efficient China is and how China is trying to save the world. Too many people are so eager to share their disgust for America (Americans in particular being happy to do this) they don't care that they are enabling a very dangerous regime. You can dislike and distrust both. It's not hard.

Sorry if I already posted this...

After all the years of coldness and emptiness from Katie Couric and Matt Lauer (and boy would he have been a passive-aggressive dick in this instance), it's nice to see Today get back its heart, for a moment anyway. Trump never invoked the DPA because big business told him it would be a mistake in the long run (socialism boo, etc.). Then Boy Blunder, Kushner, tried to negotiate a deal with GM, only to pull out because of money. They then invoked the DPA and tried to shame GM...while tweeting to an account that isn't GM's and telling them to get back to work at a plant that GM sold last year. They only invoked the DPA out of humiliation. Keep an eye on those ventilators because I have a feeling they will be left sitting in a warehouse, or only going to red states. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators-trump.html The Atlantic has done a series of articles on Erie, PA's attempts to recover from economic rot. The latest is on their new reality following the shutdowns. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/03/american-downtown-erie-during-pandemic/608803/

NYT continues to have trash employees obsessed with the Clintons.

Not that I remember. The most you tend to get is generous underwear shots. Neville and William Roache were keeping the totty side going through the '70s...

Trump has emboldened morons like Reeves to kill countless people in exchange for quick cash. Many other parts of the country will follow suit - blind greed and devotion to a man who is now going around talking about how people shouldn't even need ventilators. They will all rot in hell. You know Faux News did this to convince Trump to dump Fauci. Either way, it still makes me laugh.

I'm glad she remembered Mark Blum. I've watched the "Into the Groove" video so many times - I know it was just clips from the movie, of course, but it's so well put together.

There was some debate on Twitter about why the media doesn't care about Jay Inslee but is all over Andrew Cuomo. I think part of the reason is just that New York is always going to be a bigger story, but it's also because the media has been selling Cuomo family narratives for 40 years now. Anyway, I didn't know Mark Blum was married to Janet Zarish, who deserved much better than she got from OLTL (she was Lee Halpern). My mother loves Crocodile Dundee so I remember him most from that, but I also liked him in Desperately Seeking Susan. I always thought he was very handsome in that part.

The main downside with the crashing market is it makes Trump become even more depraved...if that is possible, considering he is gleefully trying to kill millions of people.

She rarely appears on the show. We've seen more of Adam Woodyatt making constipated faces 5 times an episode.

She's barely there to do anything.