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Love the pop-eyed look on that dog. Reckon I have the same look myself.

An artful deconstruction of the Bronze Age mythological hero. Well said.

One wonders what Whorf's annual Starfleet efficiency report could have looked like after all these rejections.

@NasriTheNewKing Believe I recall reading that there were only some 7-8 million Indians, maximum, in all of N. America when the Pilgrims landed, falling as a result of disease, combat, and demoralization to only 250,000 by the time our Indian Wars ended in 1890. It's all conjecture (no censuses),...

@foxlake02 Unless religious dogma cause a war, or environmental catastrophe, that wipes out our species. Then, the stakes for adopting atheism widescale could be seen in restrospect as decisively affecting descent.

My dear, you have perfectly-proportioned lips, eyes, cheekbones, and IDEAS! Subscribed.

Lisle has abandoned science and become a preacher. He's no more a scientist than S.E. Cupp is an atheist.

My biggest beef with Packard is that these days many owners -- esp., it seems, in our local club -- Potomac Packards (VA/MD) -- are snobs who look down their noses if you own the "wrong" one. I mean a Junior model like the prewar 110s (unless it's a drop-top or a hearse or something else quite ra...

Best of luck to you both. Medical science will no doubt do all that can be done. Peace.

Good vid. I'm an atheist, but I was impressed by the even tone and emphasis on historical fact shown here. I know it's b/c you're setting the Mormon scam up to fail (and they deserve it), but thx for posting.

Actively taking things out of context to distort the facts is intellectually dishonest and, from a political point of view, fascist. Boo.

The Soviets couldn't even build a color TV that worked well. All thru the '70s and at least into the '80s, the primary cause of apartment fires in major Soviet cities was that their Gorizont ("Horizon") brand TVs (principally in Minsk, Belarus), EXPLODED! Guess that's what happens when you have ...

They got the pantsuit-style ladies' fashions basically right, that streamlined ship doesn't look much different from the one that idiot Italian captain just wrecked, and the aerodrome the planes land on, then descend into via ramps, reminds me of the cross-section of a Cylon basestar from TOS. Oo...

Bad Jen! Bobby spank!

(cont.) They repeatedly swore up and down that the Island wasn't heaven, and that in any event the characters hadn't died and were just milling about in limbo prior to "moving on" to a higher place -- yet, that's just how things came down in the final episode. They killed off the bulk of the pas...

@pindaric But the producer did try to explain it. They're supposedly anti-static wigs so that their natural hair won't interfere with the computer equipment they all operate. One imagines they're standard-issue stuff, all the same wild color so as not to be confused with a "regular" (fashion) wig...

The Inca moved even larger stones than the Egyptians did; the walls of their mainfortress at Sak-shay-wo-man (phon.) -- scene of the last battle of the Incas' wars against the conquering Spanish and their allies -- incorporates IIRC some basalt and granite base stones weighing upwards of 60 tons ...

@ksb2112 Exactly. You can tell that Bowman is struggling throughout this scene to keep his rage and "OH SHIT, AM I FUCKED!" reflex under control, to give away as little as possible, and to reason with HAL once his "I'm the human, that's why" stance failed to get results. Bowman is using his astro...

Cult of Dusty brought me here; he recently posted a vid in which he reads his favorite Chick Tract. Check it out!

This singer shows no breath control or projection; her strange, warbly voice just ain't makin' it in finding the key. Radcliffe must have gotten some after the show to have boosted her so heavily.

Ugh. Too-quiet, strangely nasal/distorted, lacks all stage presence, Ginger Grant gown, distracting nervous gestures (the hair-flip thing, andrubbing the hip). This one will have the staying power of Rebecca Black if she doesn't get prof. voice and performance coaching soon.

@TheChuck624 Only if such fortifications were meant to withstand storm or seige, which they hardly ever did in Patton's era. This one in Cape May was simply a largish coastal artillery emplacement and comms/observation point to help counter the U-boat menace; U-boats couldn't harm it, so it laste...

Very valuable '58 Buick at 2:21.

An arts group in the Borough of Phoenixville, PA (where the Colonial Theater is loc.) re-enacts this run-out scene each year at Hallowe'en, IIRC, with volunteers from the neighborhood.

@mimmar3891 Thank you for this information. Sad to hear he's gone.

@yomamasapeach There have always been at least two perceptions of Lucifer in the Bible -- one as the ultimate anti-God (would-be replacement for God), and the other as sort of God's enforcer. IIRC, he doesn't do anything wicked in the Bible that God didn't first tell (or even dare) him to do.

@kingvoyager People in earlier times were just prudent, needing to SEE/HEAR a god before they handed over their sacrifices. I came upon the remains of a huge statue of one of the Romanized Egyptian gods in a temple in Pergamom, Turkey. A narrow tunnel ran from an area behind and under the altar,...

P40: Fast, flies best in straight lines, decent pilot protection, OK visibility, powerful armament (all .50 cal).

Zero: Fast, uncannily maneuverable in the hands of a good pilot (like these early-war chaps), no pilot protection, decent visibility, middling armament (after the 20mm ammo ran out, ...

Still more sensible than the Mormon backstory.

Not to mention the resupply issues a number of types of guns mixed in a battery would entail...

Another common tactic was for the press gang leader to trick you into accepting one shilling (1/20 of a pound, AKA "The King's Shilling"), get you drunk on it, then turn that shilling obligation into a verbal contract to join the fleet.

The "actual" laughter wasn't this intense -- the scene reflects how Brains perceived it, and how embarrassed he was about it. It just felt to him like a carnival of laughter, when in "reality" it was likely just chuckles around the table.

Nash and Hudson merged in '56 to form AMC. Studebaker was never part of it -- they teamed with Packard, and took over the nameplate when Packard was dropped ('58). It was all part of a grand try to form one big Independent automaker to rival the Big Three, but it didn't come off b/c the architect...