Category Archives: Weird

Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary, Technology and Society, Weird

Extinction rebellion

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Kind of sucks to not be able to die because you might get sick.

Business, Economics, Media Criticism, Space, Technology and Society, Weird

A Revolutionary New Concept

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The Europeans are thinking about building a rocket that retrofires and lands vertically. Eric Berger brings the snark.

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Weird

Feeling The Stalinist Bern

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[Wednesday-morning update]

Why are Bernie Bros so violent?

Seems pretty simple to me; they’re leftists.

[January 21st update]

Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman on the latest shoe to drop.

What’s hilarious is the poo-pooing by Democrats that this is just an isolated incident, when O’Keefe has made it very clear that there’s plenty more where these came from.

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Media Criticism, Popular Culture, Weird

Cats

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I’ve never seen the musical, and I’m not inclined to, but nowhere near as much as I’m not inclined to see the movie, which is getting terrible reviews.

[Friday-afternoon update]

“I watched Cats, and I have some questions.”

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[Saturday-morning update]

Follow the whole thread.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Here’s the unroll for that thread. RTWT.

[Update Sunday afternoon]

Universal notifies theaters that the movie will be “updated” for special effects. For a film already in release.

[Update a few minutes later]

This is one of the longest-running Broadway musicals. Can anyone tell me if there is a single memorable song in it other than “Memor<del>y</del>ies”? It seems to me that it’s like Les Miserable; apparently tunes aren’t important in musicals any more.

[Wednesday-afternoon update]

OK, here’s another Twitter review.

And here’s a review of the software update.

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[Saturday afternoon update]

A review of Cats, by cats.

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