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My brother-in-law is a second A.D. in Hollywood. He's worked for Christopher Nolan on a number of projects including the last two Batman pictures. He thought Ren's voice was a better version of what they were trying to achieve with Bane in the last Batman.

I agree that the consumerism of it gets really gross. The malls, the internet, the pressure. If you're not Christian (my family isn't) that takes out another notch. Being in education I get a solid 2 weeks off. It's a good slow down. I get less busy, if I'm lucky I might even get a little bored. And then family comes into focus. We all get tied up in our own business during the year so it's a vital time to keep connections strong. My sister just had her first kid (I get a nephew!). My wife and I are getting ready to be parents. It's all really nice.

There was a time when Lemmy's cell phone number was leaked. Strangers would call and he'd willingly talk to them. Several friends attest to this when a friend of mine demonstrated this on speakerphone. He called and said: Is this Lemmy? Yeah, who's this? It's Neil, what are you doing? I'm having a beer at the fuckin' bar. What are you doing, Neil?

They're just building anticipation. Expect more Luke in episode viii

Happy holidays everyone!

Maybe she was worried a little gas would slip and make a noise an eavesdropper would describe as "not very presidential". Sub question, what kind of reading material do you think you'd find in the bathroom of the oval office these days?

Daisy Riddley, a star is born. She's spectacular. Adam Driver also brought it. I love the feminist edge, the storm trooper deserter, the family tragedy myth continued. The only retread piece that interrupted my reverie was Death Star 3.0. All that said this is arguably the best looking Star Wars film.

It may not always be authentic, but there's an interest in discussing substantive policy making. Unfortunately after flirting with becoming a little more moderate and trying to attract the non-white vote the establishment GOP started getting its ass kicked by a buffoon. Now they're all selling fear and bigotry. The Democrats are certainly disingenuous at times, but at least they aspire to appear balanced, intelligent and pragmatic.

That's right. Thanks.

The people get the leader they deserve. Is that how it goes? Who said that?

If you're going for sarcasm then I think you missed some of the context of what Mr. Trump was communicating. The word firm sounds benign, however the statement does not.

Pretty cool. Interesting production on top of pretty classic M Ward material about girls and helicopters.

Yeah, the first amendment doesn't protect your job, for better and for worse.

You know there are Chicagoans on this forum, right?

Let's face it. This is going to go in circles because no one ever changes their mind: rub people, sauce people, they're just quoting their chosen media outlets.

Still. Probably some white Christian dude.

I know that if I get shot down by a whacko, there's a better chance he'll be a white guy.... possibly an NRA member.

WTF man? How is that a Muslim issue? It doesn't seem to be working with some insecure red necks in the south, or some judgemental WASPS in Long Island. It hasn't really worked for some militant Israelis, or a tiny minority of face-smackingly stupid German white supremacists. We've got Hutus killing Tutsis, Tamal Tigers, or the South Thailand insurgency. What do most examples of terrorism have in common, just like the nut job who shot up Planned Parenthood an hour away from my neighborhood? Disenfranchised, poor people, who've been fluffed up with bad information, in a group where the d

I think it's important for isolated Americans to get more exposure to the varieties of people that could be part of one group. My all-time favorite liquor store guy has a store by where my band practices in East Denver. He's a Muslim North African and easily the nicest person I interact with on a given week. I also had a Muslim student in my class for two years, her family came here from Bosnia. It's trivial, but perhaps necessary to note, that her mom was a 6'3" tall woman with fair skin, hazel eyes and could probably be a model. The point is, Muslims come in many different shapes, size

If anyone is saying that they're wrong. The intellectual center of the anti-gun movement is not a moral indictment of gun owners. It's a moral obligation to legislate. It's systemic, demographic, data.... a move to improve things statistically. It is an attempt to exchange my personal right to own a gun for the decreased probability of someone I've never met being shot. I can safely drive 80 miles an hour on a 55 mile an hour highway. I feel that way (in fact I've probably demonstrated it in a moment of unlawfulness). The exchange is that I won't have the right because the highway is s

They should make an app called "Freudagram".

I hear you. I guess that's what I'm getting at. There's a pattern to when these things happen. I'm imaging a new kind of shitty here at home. Something Nixonian, or like the McCarthy trials, or Japanese internment camps- another brand of shame.

The more I look at the events, the rhetoric and the social psychology with this stuff, the more I realize Americans , as a whole group of well-meaning people, need to be very careful. We have a real, but nebulous threat to the wellbeing of our citizens. We have a heightened perception of that threat. Our military is inextricably immersed in multiple foreign quagmires. Perhaps worst of all, we have a growing sentiment of xenophobia and bigotry amongst a growing contingent of our population. These could be the ingredients to set the stage for what history could regard as a catastrophic fuc

Jihadism is not a country. It is not a fixed number. You can not conquer that country and then pretend that everything is cool. A war against ideas can not be won with suppressive fire- it has a mushrooming effect. It would behoove all of us, most importantly those in the defense departments of the G8 to imagine the life of someone living under the Assad regime. All kinds of ideological perversities can thrive in violent and unstable places. Bombing may destabilize the radical force du' jour, but for the same reasons it does not create a stable country for peaceful plenitude to flourish

Yeah, the NRA has gotten some bad press recently for lobbying to keep guns in the hands of people on the terrorist watch list. They helped kill a bill that the majority of gun owners supported. The NRA are corporate shills who prey on ignorance fueled by fear.