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Did You Know This?

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Did you know these differences? I didn't.

Ghost In The Shell Casting

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Originally, I started to write my own lengthy post summing up my thoughts on Ghost In The Shell casting. Then I saw this. So I'm just going to leave it right here:

Why pugs?

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Why do I own pugs? This pretty much nails it:

The Meatspace Ratio

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I was thinking about how we interact with each other online. How the digital age, the internet, social media, and smart phones are both awesome and terrible. I mean, when the lovely wife was on such high doses of methotrexate to try to keep her from going blind and pretty much sick all the time, the only thing that kept me from drowning under the weight of worry and loneliness was social media. But, yet, probably once a week, I want to punch my computer screen and delete all my accounts. But here’s the thing: you have to accept that this is now part of our human experience. Accept that this is here to stay. The internet is not going to disappear. Facebook isn't going to go out of business. And your smart phone isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s probably only going to become a more integral part of your life. To pretend like they're the issue isn't useful or realistic.  I think when you accept that, you then realize that the problem is the newness means we haven’

What Steinbeck Said...

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Here's what John Steinbeck actually said about socialism: "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”

Just As Appropriate Now As It Ever Was...

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#WhoIsBruceWayne

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Art by Alexandre Salles Between Frank Miller's right-wing psychopath and Snyder’s Ayn Rand-fueled bro hero, it occurs to me that someday I must pitch my own left-leaning miniseries to DC: #WhoIsBruceWayne By day, Bruce Wayne is the entitled and ridiculously rich douchebag sending all of Gotham’s jobs overseas. When night falls, Wayne uses all the billions from his offshore tax havens to fund a violent war against the lower classes...and whoever is foolish enough to be an intellectual in Gotham (why are so many of Batman's villains doctors and professors..?) #DynamicDuo Enter the leftist, surrealist, street fighter who calls himself the Joker. Together with his lover who calls him/herself Harley Quinn, this Dynamic Duo is out to keep you from getting beat to death for being poor...

Doctor Strange: The Oath

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If you're looking to read some Doctor Strange before the film arrives, regardless of whether you're a longtime fan or new to the Sorcerer Supreme, you can't go wrong with Doctor Strange: The Oath by Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin. It's so ridiculously good that I really can't say enough wonderful about it.

Coming Soon From Zack Snyder

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Confession Time

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Yesterday, I saw the Trevor Noah/Debbie Wasserman thing all over my Facebook feed. It’s interesting to me how many different ways it was being read. One group thought Noah really stuck it to Wasserman just by asking her about cockblocking Sanders. Another group thought he let her run the interview and never asked a hard-hitting follow-up like he was a real newsman (I’d remind you that he’s not and neither was Jon Stewart). Pretty much everyone seemed to be disappointed though that Noah isn’t Jon Stewart. I saw a lot of sites running the "story" asking What Would Jon Stewart Do? So we come to confession time: I never got the obsession with Jon Stewart. I thought Stewart was glib and snarky and condescending and a milquestoast liberal—all reasons why the very people who should support liberals tend to vote the other way. Stewart never broke a single big news story. A Stewart interview never really accomplished anything except to make you feel better. I never bought