Althouse: Sunrise.

May 22, 2026

Sunrise.

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93 comments:

FullMoon said...: Always so good they seem photoshopped.; 5/22/26, 6:47 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...: Nice light chop...hows the walleye bite?; 5/22/26, 6:47 PM
narciso said...: No they look like a tableau painted against the skies; 5/22/26, 6:55 PM
Curious George said...: "Nice light chop...hows the walleye bite?"

Not a great walleye fishery. Best bet is trolling weed edges at night.; 5/22/26, 7:02 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Final Colbert show watched by 6.7 million. To boost the shows viewership Fallon and Kimmel "Went dark" and asked their viewers to watch.

Had to laugh at the "Boomer-casting". Musical guests Costello and McCarthy - both over 70. Latest demo data showed Colbert's audience was 90 percent over 50 y/o, 65 percent over 60.

Finale show Comparisons - Letterman/Leno - Both 15 million. Carson - 50 million.; 5/22/26, 7:27 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Fox says 87 percent of Colbert's "Jokes" were directed at Conservatives and Republicans. Per MRC, from January 2023 to now Colbert made:
3,639 jokes about President Donald Trump, former President 339 jokes about Joe biden
21 jokes about VP Harris.

He recieved standing O's from every left-wing politician in the country with Fatboy Pritzker tweeting "Thank you, Stephen, for the past 11 seasons of bringing laughter into our homes, speaking truth to power with a smile, and being loud for America."; 5/22/26, 7:32 PM
narciso said...: We'll make it up in volumewa'he was just terribly drab and awful'; 5/22/26, 7:34 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/22/26, 7:34 PM
narciso said...: In the decidedly meh category you have the umteeth version to pull star wars out of the sarlaac pit' mango and grok,,the nics are the best part; 5/22/26, 7:36 PM
tcrosse said...: All I ever managed to catch out of Mendota were crappies. But back in those days the shores were littered with big old catfish. My dog loved to rub against them.; 5/22/26, 7:36 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: And did anyone watch these farewell tour shows? I didnt

Former President Barack Obama was the sole guest on May 5, with another segment from the interview airing on May 13.

Original "Late Show" host David Letterman returned for the entire May 14 show to throw CBS property off the Ed Sullivan Theater roof.

Longtime friend and former Comedy Central colleague Jon Stewart and director Steven Spielberg appeared on the May 19 episode.; 5/22/26, 7:37 PM
rehajm said...: sat at the restaurant bar at dinner. Byron Nelson on one screen the other was MS whatever it is now with Chiron says Colbert show ends in new era of restricted speech or some such. Way to spoil my dinner. was hoping we were on to the next outrage…; 5/22/26, 7:37 PM
narciso said...: Pedro pascal (allende) is a franchise killer; 5/22/26, 7:40 PM
narciso said...: Oh noes; 5/22/26, 7:40 PM
narciso said...: Time dilation has done a heck of a job, on that muncie weatherman; 5/22/26, 7:41 PM
R C Belaire said...: SpaceX had a great day. More to come -- and quickly.; 5/22/26, 7:43 PM
Leland said...: Restricted to costing a company $30 million a year. Get to losing a company $40 million a year, they quit paying for your speech. Next up, Dave Feloni and Pedro Pascal get their speech restricted.; 5/22/26, 7:44 PM
narciso said...: I havent seem people this yappy since james hansen who could never shut up for the next 20 years; 5/22/26, 7:45 PM
narciso said...: Dave feloni is ok well compared to wicked witch kennedy; 5/22/26, 7:47 PM
narciso said...: Werner herzog and the late carl weathers were probably the bese part of the series

Of course werner could instill dread reading the entrees on a menu; 5/22/26, 7:49 PM
narciso said...: Btw speaking of dinosaurs king conan will be starting filming soon; 5/22/26, 7:50 PM
Curious George said...: "tcrosse said...
All I ever managed to catch out of Mendota were crappies. But back in those days the shores were littered with big old catfish. My dog loved to rub against them."

It's a pretty good Musky and Northern fishery, SM an LM too. And panfish, including crappie.; 5/22/26, 7:58 PM
RJW said...: Rcocian @ 7:32, I’d beg to differ but well, if “Fox says”, my rebuttal’s pretty much blown to hell in advance.; 5/22/26, 8:16 PM
tcrosse said...: I hasten to add that my days of fishing in Mendota were 55 years ago.; 5/22/26, 8:27 PM
WK said...: Wondering why PBS doesn’t pick up Colbert.; 5/22/26, 8:45 PM
narciso said...: Gutfeld has beat colbert's like a red headed stepchild for how many years now with arotatiing staff of five writers; 5/22/26, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: And its way more edgy than anything colbert has engaged in remember the monkey pox spokesman; 5/22/26, 8:50 PM
Eva Marie said...: A short little ditty
Voter ID - so pretty
https://x.com/heyabbatt/status/2057796979036397975?s=46; 5/22/26, 9:00 PM
Eva Marie said...: the rhyme doesn’t really work but the video’s cute.; 5/22/26, 9:03 PM
Josephbleau said...: “ dinosaurs king conan”

Conan the Barbarian?; 5/22/26, 9:13 PM
Achilles said...: Eva Marie said...

A short little ditty
Voter ID - so pretty
https://x.com/heyabbatt/status/2057796979036397975?s=46

This wont happen til 2027.

Thune has officially declared himself Democrat.; 5/22/26, 9:29 PM
Eva Marie said...: 100% crazy. Something like 75 - 80% Dems and R’s support it; 5/22/26, 9:50 PM
Iman said...: Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
“Nice light chop...hows the walleye bite?”

I suspect the closest TinyEE™ has come to fishing is nibbling on a trouser trout.; 5/22/26, 9:51 PM
FullMoon said...: Best of Ed Sullivan show just had Beatles. Elvis later tonight
Some strange contortionist stuff.; 5/22/26, 10:24 PM
Achilles said...: Eva Marie said...

100% crazy. Something like 75 - 80% Dems and R’s support it

You are talking about Americans.

You should know by now that Republicans and Democrats in DC are not Americans. They serve foreign powers with lots of money. The Republican Party has been a trick since Eisenhower. Reagan failed to break their hold.

We still have to defeat the Desantis/Romney/Bush democrat wing before we could take on the democrats heads up.; 5/22/26, 10:37 PM
Original Mike said...: "It's a pretty good Musky and Northern fishery, SM an LM too. And panfish, including crappie."

My mentor caught a couple of record muskies on Mendota. Weight of the fish on such and such test.; 5/22/26, 10:39 PM
Jamie said...: Today we said goodbye to our third child until December - the real beginning of our nomadic sojourn. Until now, we've been in the near vicinity of at least one kid and usually several friends. Hereafter, we mostly go to new places with no one we know, unless they decide to visit while we're there.

We have arranged meetings with friends in a few places, and we've invited friends and family members to visit us (we always ensure that our lodgings have an extra room), but here we are where the rubber hits the road.; 5/22/26, 10:44 PM
Eva Marie said...: So this is why Thune opposed bringing the Save America Act to the floor for so long.
1. To Protect vulnerable members. Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis were never going to vote for this.
2. a failed vote actually helps Republicans in November by letting them say Democrats blocked election integrity.
And since Tillis walked away after threats of being primaried, from running because he voted down the Save America Act, that senate seat might now be flipped which is the kind of thing Thune was trying to protect against.
If Whatley wins, Thune is proved wrong. But if the seat is flipped, then Thine will gave been proved right.
It’s complicated.; 5/22/26, 10:51 PM
Josephbleau said...: What is the vision? What does the promised land hold? Remember that the United States is a big place that contains lots of people of many ilks. It’s easy to move.

We need to have a federalism that gives more power to regional government, we need to let people cluster into communities that are happy together. Let us self select like the pilgrims, the cavaliers, the Amish, the farmers, the workers, and the Californians want to do. But limit federal funding, if you want to have communist Minnesota, you pay for it. If you want free range Texas, your money is not going to go to Seattle.

Will we grow apart? I think the risk is low. Socialist will think that all the people will move to the socialist places, and if so, good. Others think that everyone will move to Florida or Texas, fine.

But a decision will be made, a winnowing will occur, truth will be found, your beliefs will be trialed by fire and their tenor will be found.

The problem will be, that those who are found lacking will want to impose. They will want money from the successful
places, that is how it works now. So prohibit the failed parts from stealing from the good parts. Rather, make them change by not subsidizing them. The only subsidy should be that you get to move to somewhere else once.

Make success the criterion, don’t reinforce failure. The good will live and the bad will die. No thumb on the scale, only truth as measured by who moves where.

Now the crux, if all the mentally ill go to one place what do you do. Well, probably something better than what is happening now.

5/22/26, 10:48 PM; 5/22/26, 11:01 PM
Saint Croix said...: Pedro pascal (allende) is a franchise killer

I liked Fantastic Four, actually. Solid B+. Very pro-life themes, which was interesting. It's retro, taking us back to the early 1960's (the decade that broke the Democrat party). Almost like the filmmakers wanted to take us back to a more innocent time. And, simultaneously, give us an ultrasound peek at an unborn baby.

At the time, Disney was in the middle of a fight with DeSantis and the state of Florida. I wonder if corporate made a decision that it wanted a pro-family movie, to appease the governor, but also half the country? Disney is supposed to be a family brand, after all.

Or maybe these themes came from the artists themselves. (The Fantastic Four has always been pro-family, with their married super-heroes).; 5/22/26, 11:12 PM
Achilles said...: Eva Marie said...

So this is why Thune opposed bringing the Save America Act to the floor for so long.
1. To Protect vulnerable members. Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis were never going to vote for this.
2. a failed vote actually helps Republicans in November by letting them say Democrats blocked election integrity.
And since Tillis walked away after threats of being primaried, from running because he voted down the Save America Act, that senate seat might now be flipped which is the kind of thing Thune was trying to protect against.
If Whatley wins, Thune is proved wrong. But if the seat is flipped, then Thine will gave been proved right.
It’s complicated.

Thune blocked the SAVE act because he knows it ends the Democrat party.

The only power these traitors have is bargaining with Trump and flipping democrat to serve their masters.

A real Republican gets 55% of the vote in Pennsylvania with voter ID requirements and an end to months of mail in voting.

But the real kicker is that the primaries are where the fraud really happens. Thune is not moderate. There is no such thing.; 5/22/26, 11:33 PM
Saint Croix said...: For what it's worth, I disagree with a lot of right-wingers about the Disney Star Wars movies. Several of them are outstanding, in my opinion, including Rogue One, The Force Awakens, The Rise of Skywalker and Solo. I love this cinema. A+ all the way.

Here's my top 10. (Disney 6, Lucasfilm 4)

1. Star Wars
2. Rogue One
3. The Force Awakens
4. The Empire Strikes Back
5. Solo
6. The Rise of Skywalker
7. Return of the Jedi
8. Star Wars Rebels
9. Andor
10 Revenge of the Sith

The days of me having to watch all the big screen Star Wars movies are out the window. So I'm skipping the new release. But I still think this was an outstanding purchase by Disney. $4 billion.

(The Last Jedi is an abomination. That's the movie that destroyed the brand for a generation. It's the worst movie in the canon, by far. But I'm confident the studio will recover).

Interesting peek into Star Wars movies in development.

I'm pulling for a Simon Kinberg big-budget trilogy. Star Wars Rebels is a lot of fun, and I like all the new characters.; 5/23/26, 12:31 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Always so good they seem photoshopped.

They really are tremendous.; 5/23/26, 1:45 AM
Eva Marie said...: Thune had a chance to reach for greatness. He chose mediocrity instead - cautious, deferential to Senate norms.
Not everyone sees it.
I thought about the roughly 17 top U.S. business leaders who joined Trump on his recent trip to China. While presidents have taken these kinds of trips before, this one stood out for its star power - Musk, Cook, Huang, Fink. Of course they went primarily to pursue deals for their companies, but Trump was the magnet. By any metric, an extraordinary man. Facing fierce opposition from government and media, a bitterly disputed election loss, relentless legal battles, and two assassination attempts - and yet he came back and retook the presidency. As ambitious and hardheaded as those business leaders are, I think they were still a bit in awe of him.; 5/23/26, 4:34 AM
Saint Croix said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/23/26, 4:34 AM
Saint Croix said...: Sometimes our sky is so beautiful, I feel like somebody up there is painting it.

That's probably where the rumor that heaven is up came from. All the beauty in the sky.

I see it sometimes, in my own sky. But I never capture it.; 5/23/26, 4:35 AM
Saint Croix said...: What i particularly like, is the slight warping Althouse's camera appears to be doing. Or maybe it's the clouds doing it on their own. Photo #1, for instance, gives us the illusion of speed.

In the fourth picture, an illusion of mountains.; 5/23/26, 4:39 AM
rehajm said...: …that Temu Obama guy slams the Supreme Court and just ices for being the Trump court bit nor a single bratty fit from Justice Roberts. No that’s not how I do my job, no stop trying to politicize the court. The summers must really mean summers off…unless Truuuummmmp!; 5/23/26, 4:43 AM
rehajm said...: Trumps like 34-0 on endorsements but you wouldn’t know it watching MS PoS who were yesterday reporting between the slush funs and his huge unpopularity the walls are closing in…; 5/23/26, 4:45 AM
Eva Marie said...: The top photo is my favorite. It grounds the spectacular with the imperfectly human. And the lines of the dock train your eye to find all the other lines - some obvious, like the horizon, others so subtle that your eye has to discover them on its own.; 5/23/26, 4:50 AM
Gospace said...: Visiting my son in FL. Housesitting at the moment. He and his family are off at a religious retreat for the weekend. At 0500 our dog decided she wanted to go out. And his dog joined in.

And seconds after they were out a car pulled into the driveway and sat in front of the gate. For well over a minute. Dogs ran down the driveway and barked like mad.

This is not a high traffic area. People don't get lost in this or nearby subdivisions. 5 acre minimum lot size. To get to here a car first passes a "no outlet" sign that covers several streets then a "Dead End" sign on this or the other dead ends.

Went in to get my phone, lifted it up, dialed 911 and they left. Police out looking for aimlessly wandering vehicles right now. After they cleared the end of the street the dogs responded to my calls to come in.

Kind of suspicious the timing showing up when the house should be empty.; 5/23/26, 5:00 AM
john mosby said...: St Croix, I really liked the scene of Ben Grimm going to his Brooklyn neighborhood shul on the night before the world is supposed to end. Marvel standing up for their Jewish roots (Stanley Liebowitz, Jakob Kirschbaum). CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 5:36 AM
Eva Marie said...: Enoch Powell on the Dick Cavett Show 1971
(via Instapundit)
https://youtu.be/XVFh_CNePJc?si=IXjSCNy7TkuPdbtM; 5/23/26, 5:46 AM
Breezy said...: “So this is why Thune opposed bringing the Save America Act to the floor for so long.
1. To Protect vulnerable members. Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis were never going to vote for this.
2. a failed vote actually helps Republicans in November by letting them say Democrats blocked election integrity.“

This makes no sense to me. Those Senators would be protecting their seats by voting for the SAVE Act. Plus, now voters in their states see that they are actually the ones blocking election integrity.; 5/23/26, 6:05 AM
Eva Marie said...: If they hadn’t been forced to vote the way Thune knew they were going to vote, the voters wouldn’t know and they would be more re-electable, preserving the Republican majority; 5/23/26, 6:34 AM
Eva Marie said...: That was, supposedly the calculation Thune made in stalling the Save Act, making it a campaign issue and keeping those Republican seats. Instead, Tillis voted against the Save Act, Trump announced he would primary him, Tillis said he would retire and now that rather safe seat may be flipped.; 5/23/26, 6:41 AM
Eva Marie said...: In other words, Thune knew 100% he didn’t have the votes. The flip side of the argument us that it was Thune’s job to get the damn votes and he didn’t do his job.; 5/23/26, 6:48 AM
Eva Marie said...: Just to add: Trump thought Thune should get the votes or end the filibuster and pass the Save Act. Save Act priority #1
Thune thought priority #1 preserve the majority and uphold the tradition of the filibuster.; 5/23/26, 6:57 AM
Eva Marie said...: Now the Democrats made it clear they are going to dump the filibuster for legislation just as they dumped it for judicial nominees. So Thune’s position was both wishful thinking (push cones to shove, the Dems won’t do it) and as a lover of tradition he didn’t want to be the one destroying it. Trump would say Thune’s loyalty is to the people not the tradition.; 5/23/26, 7:04 AM
Eva Marie said...: Thune’s critics would say
1. He wanted to stick it to Trump
2. He’s more confortable being a loser than a leader - with all the perks being a loser gives you - in terms of paybacks from Democrats.; 5/23/26, 7:10 AM
tim maguire said...: RCOCEAN II said...And did anyone watch these farewell tour shows?

But for all the people complaining about him on Instapundit and twitter, I would have completely forgotten about Colbert years ago.; 5/23/26, 7:10 AM
Saint Croix said...: St Croix, I really liked the scene of Ben Grimm going to his Brooklyn neighborhood shul on the night before the world is supposed to end. Marvel standing up for their Jewish roots (Stanley Liebowitz, Jakob Kirschbaum).

I missed that!

AI seems to think Superman (Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster) is a Methodist. Probably because he was brought up by farmers in Iowa.

I guessed the Batman is an Episcopalian. And the internet agrees with me. He has the vibe. Daredevil is very Catholic. A lot of guilt in Daredevil. The Batman feels no guilt whatsoever.; 5/23/26, 7:10 AM
john mosby said...: All the superheroes are Jewish. Think about it: secret identities, ie assimilation. Very short Anglo names: Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker. Just like people used to Anglicize Katz to Kaye, or Goldfarb to Green - or Liebowitz to Lee. Real Anglo names aren't short: Snodgrass, Higginbotham, Featherstonehaugh. They all live in NYC or fake cities (Metropolis, Gotham) that look a lot like NYC. They have Anglo girlfriends whom they can never quite marry. They have arch-enemies trying to exterminate them. Ben Grimm/The Thing is basically the golem. Superman is a messianic figure. Batman is a revenge fantasy on the crooked systems Jews have to live under. Etc.; 5/23/26, 7:18 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Adam Schiff offered condolences to Tulsi Gabbard... followed by insults.

"My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem. I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery.

While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation.

She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more.

We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal."; 5/23/26, 7:24 AM
Leland said...: I can understand Schiff being afraid of Tulsi. I suspect she was building a case against him and that work will continue. The guy has a lot to answer.; 5/23/26, 7:28 AM
john mosby said...: Josephbleau, in another post you described your suggestion for real federalism as a 'modest proposal.' I don't think it's a Swiftian exaggeration: I think it really is modest! It's just how federalism used to work before we decided we could 'fix' things by torturing the Commerce Clause beyond all recognition.

One of VDH's oft-repeated tales is how he grew up among the California Okies: all the people who fled the Dust Bowl to do agriculture in the then-paradise of CA. He uses his background to make cultural points, but you can also use it for economic/political points.

Before FDR could even start trying to 'fix' the economy, people voted with their feet and changed states to improve their lot. It was perhaps a bit slow: 20-30 years after the Dust Bowl, when young VDH was hanging out on Main Street with his Okie friends (and Japanese and Mexican friends), they were certainly not rich. He likes to repeat the tale of one of the local families shaking possums out of trees for dinner. But they weren't depending on handouts either.

A country as big as ours, with a single currency, is going to wind up with rich and poor areas. To get the other states to buy your stuff, you may have to cut your prices and salaries. So you'll be poor compared to the rich states. But within your state, things should balance out, at least for stuff you produce locally. This phenomenon is part of why so many countries want to leave the EU, or insist on subsidies as the price of staying in. And so as you say, people here insist on subsidies from the productive states to the nonproductive ones.

But all those subsidies do is create a vicious cycle of one reaction after another. Going back to real federalism lets the country balance itself out. CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 7:29 AM
Aggie said...: I thought the only reason Murkowski was re-elected to her inherited seat, was because of ranked-choice voting. I would have thought that she would collect more votes as a SAVE act supporter. Marginally so for Tillis as well, if he wasn't such an adamant anti-Trumper. No, I think Collins is the only one that stands to hold ground in her district by not voting for the SAVE act. Just opinions of course. But Thune has long been labeled as Mitch McConnell's appointed knave, and I think that's an accurate assessment, another 'Go along to Get along' Republican, heartily sick of them.

Their approach is that the business of the Senate is entirely their affair, everyone else can butt out. That hidden clause that Tillis hid in that bill, the one awarding millions Republican Senators whose phone records had been sullied, is unforgivable. Not having it.; 5/23/26, 7:30 AM
john mosby said...: Leland and MadTownGuy, yeah. Of all the 47 Cabinet, Gabbard probably has the least "devotion to the person of the president," given all the times she has disagreed with his policies. Of course, Schiff long ago gave up on concepts like compromise, joining forces with someone who shares some but not all of your ideas, and all that other good stuff, so he can't recognize professionalism when it's right in his face. CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 7:34 AM
Saint Croix said...: Great series of posts, Eva.

It would be funny if Trump rams through the SAVE act, and then some liberal judge declares it unconstitutional, citing federalism and the 10th Amendment.; 5/23/26, 7:37 AM
Saint Croix said...: Mosby at 7:18. You're cracking me up.

I would add that Superman is very liberal. He's an illegal alien and a journalist!

The Batman, on the other hand, is totally right-wing. Unless you want to argue he's an Israeli, your thesis fails. He's a rich guy protecting himself from all the vigilante shit he does at night.

Clark Kent: "What do you think of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Batman?"

Bruce Wayne: "It's the Batman. And I have no opinion. I am totally focused on my mission to save Gotham. Kind of like Spencer Pratt, if you've heard of him."

Clark Kent: "Excuse me, desperate situation in Davos."; 5/23/26, 7:55 AM
john mosby said...: Of course, you can use a lot of the same evidence to say all superheroes are gay. Secret identities, natch. Muscle men, yeahhh. Can't ever quite commit to their "girlfriends," uh hunh. Very strange obsessive relationships with their arch-enemies. Hmm. Operating on the edge of the law. And don't get me started on Batman/Robin, Green Arrow/Speedy, Superman/Jimmy Olsen, Captain America/The Falcon. And how about Green Lantern and Green Arrow going on that consciousness-raising road trip in the early 70s? Yeah..... CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 8:04 AM
narciso said...: Murkowski is a moocher who stands against alaskan interests who voted for the worst biden appointees; 5/23/26, 8:08 AM
Saint Croix said...: saving the world = Democrat
saving the city = Republican; 5/23/26, 8:08 AM
Breezy said...: Thune is trying to be too clever by half. He needs to get the votes via any means he can. He has power of committee assignments, money to states, campaign financing, filibuster rules, etc. He is not exercising these afaik. He needs to go scorched earth on the holdouts due to 85% voter approval for the measure. He’s trying to make this rocket science when it’s not.; 5/23/26, 8:09 AM
Breezy said...: He’s tanking his whole caucus with this nonsense.; 5/23/26, 8:12 AM
john mosby said...: St Croix: "saving the world = Democrat/ saving the city = Republican"

Ooh, that is pretty cool. I would perhaps critique it a little: remember that for most of the comics era, there were hard-hat Democrats who wanted to live in a city safe for the working man and his family. Which included working-class and small-business Jews, basically like the guys running DC and Marvel. CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 8:12 AM
narciso said...: Like caotain america superman is a very earnest fellow whether the depression or the fractious seventies he lives by a code; 5/23/26, 8:14 AM
Saint Croix said...: Of course, you can use a lot of the same evidence to say all superheroes are gay.

Congress already investigated that.

Seduction of the Innocent; 5/23/26, 8:17 AM
john mosby said...: Which led to the Comics Code, which made the industry focus more on squeaky-clean superheroes. CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 8:20 AM
narciso said...: Admittedly i wasnt keen on robert downey jr in the 90s; 5/23/26, 8:22 AM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 5/23/26, 8:22 AM
Saint Croix said...: Like captain america superman is a very earnest fellow

My favorite Captain America line: "There's only one God, ma'am. And I'm pretty sure he doesn't dress like that."; 5/23/26, 8:24 AM
Eva Marie said...: From CFP:
Save the Trump buffalo!!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/596108/commander-in-beef-donald-trump-buffalo-wows-fans-ahead-of-sacrifice; 5/23/26, 8:34 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: We’ll keep the Senate and replace the Majority Leader.; 5/23/26, 8:56 AM
Big Mike said...: While you folks were arguing about comic book characters, someone was interviewing jurors from the Weinstein trial (which ended in a mistrial). All nine women on the jury voted for acquittal; all three men voted to convict.

Wow. Just wow. So women believe in the casting couch? I’ll bet that’s not in the syllabus for any course in any Women’s Studies curriculum.; 5/23/26, 9:20 AM
William50 said...: I always think of Thune as Mitch McConnell's mini me.; 5/23/26, 10:03 AM
Saint Croix said...: All nine women on the jury voted for acquittal; all three men voted to convict.

It sounds like something sex-specific happened at trial.; 5/23/26, 10:07 AM
Narr said...: "We'll have Superman for president, let Robin save the day"

The deep readings of the Superhero genre here could get you tenure at a lot of places, with some leftoid spin. Work up a conference at some nice spot, theme "Mensch and Supermensch" or the like . . .

Big Mike reports on Weinstein. I guess it's true, what they say about Harvey--you wouldn't think to look at him, but he could charm the pants off most women.; 5/23/26, 10:24 AM
Narr said...: Oh yeah. Nice pix!; 5/23/26, 10:26 AM
Big Mike said...: @Narr, maybe it’s the soft Corinthian leather on his casting couch?; 5/23/26, 10:41 AM
Saint Croix said...: The deep readings of the Superhero genre here could get you tenure at a lot of places

Is Paradise Island a Zionist Fantasy?

Believe All Women: Princess Diana and the Problem of Catwoman; 5/23/26, 10:57 AM
john mosby said...: Just came back from watching the Mandalorian movie, in an IMAX theater. Bottom line up front: It's fine.

Basically it's a cowboy movie. And not The Searchers. Don't expect too much, and you won't be disappointed.

From the series, I have had a problem with Grogu. He was played like a baby, which made it difficult for me to watch him being put in danger. But really his development is the only 'real' sci-fi in the series/film. His species lives for centuries, and they don't develop in the same sequence we do. He's about 60 yo - so does that make him a toddler? A child? A fully physically mature specimen, but still learning intellectually? It's an interesting SF question. He is a little more mature in the movie, and also he is not subjected to direct threats the way he was in the series. So he mostly works.

There is a pretty nifty subplot with Grogu and the tiny mechanics, who are clearly crusty old guys, but also cute and vulnerable because of their small size.

Sigourney Weaver is phoning in her part. But it's a cowboy movie, not Year of Living Dangerously. Suck it up.

We only see Pedro Pascal's face for a few minutes. He is the voice of the Mandalorian throughout, though.

Martin Scorsese has a pretty cool small part. I won't spoil it. You have to play very close attention or you will miss it.

A big chunk of the film takes place on a planet that's a mix between a Blade Runner hommage and 1930s Chicago, including setback Gothic skyscrapers. So of course I was doing a Pee Wee Herman in the back row of the theatre.

There were also some hommages to 70s-style filmmaking, for instance establishing shots of the Republic base where the Mandalorian goes to get his jobs.

Most of the movie is CGI. Minutes go by that are all CGI - not even any human actors. Try not to let that bother you.

Some of the CGI, though, is obvious CGI. Even in IMAX. That does take away my suspension of disbelief.

There's some cool intra-Hutt fighting. In fact, the renegade Hutt may be the best character in the movie, even though he's all CGI.

There are enough plot holes to sink the Bismarck. Just ignore them. It's a cowboy movie. And not The Searchers. Although even The Searchers has plot holes.

So overall it was worth my $25. I was not disappointed. But again, I did not set my expectations too high. CC, JSM; 5/23/26, 4:27 PM
Saint Croix said...: How would The Searchers even work in outer space?

It's like, Baby Yoda was kidnapped by Wookies. So they have to kill him. Because he's gone Wookie.

Speaking of The Searchers, Natalie Wood is one of my favorite virgins in cinema. She's a virgin sex therapist. With a lot of experience.; 5/23/26, 8:28 PM