Recent content by Swammerdami

With gun violence in the news of another Anglophonic country, it seemed good to mention the latest news about Kyle Rittenhouse. Kyle IIRC was a teenager given a semi-automatic rifle for his 16th(?) birthday, and traveled to a protest far from his home to "help protect businesses from looting."...

Given the ever-growing bubbles (stock prices, debts) and the poorly designed methods of fighting the erosion of consumer spending power, it is something of a mystery why the prices of stocks and bonds remain so high. Part of the explanation is share purchases by corporations. In the past...

Among the Appointments during Trump-45 was making Jared Kushner -- the callow criminal's son who married Princess Ivanka -- to be Czar of Everything. W haven't heard much about him during Trump-47, but he hasn't gone away. I'll excerpt from this Alternet article which references this report...

I find it hard to pin down some movies to one "genre," but "romantic drama" seems MUCH closer to me than "political drama"! The review I just linked to uses the word "melodrama" once or twice. Here is a VERY long List of melodrama films. Casablanca is included along with The Third Man, A...

I already knew Casablanca was the greatest film ever before I ever knew WHY. :thumbup: Eventually I clicked YouTubes by expert cinematographers explaining its greatness. Here's an explanation of some of its greatness that is only 10 minutes long. I hope that video is not a SPOILER. Even...

No! :cool: Everyone should be like me! My list of favorite movies is very eclectic; I like a variety of genres, as long as they are very good movies with good acting, good script, interesting stories, and a good mix of drama, thrills, humor, etc. Wikipedia calls Casablanca a "romantic drama"...

It may be best to treat comments by US Republicans as comedic entertainment. Let me apologize on behalf of a fellow American. I can't be sure about Mr. Vonse, but many Republicans believe that the Second Commandment -- the right to own and operate guns -- is a basic human right that applies...

I never liked Marco Rubio -- right-winger and liar -- but he seems to be the "only adult" in Trump's Cabinet. In the following report, how much of Rubio's stupidity is genuine, and how much is just him licking the scrotum of a Fuhrer he detests? Immigrant crime problem? In the U.S...

I am not generally a fan of sci-fi, so dislike Close Encounters. (I DO like Deja Vu and Ghost where sci-fi or supernatural is introduced to make a good story rather than for its own sake.) I agree that the brief melody meme in Close Encounters is silly, BUT the aliens already knew enough about...

I do want to compose a post about ocean ecology, but first let me correct a misconception which has been confessed to recently. If you're referring to our distinguished climatologist Mr. Swizz, he has recently informed us that he is a "Valley guy." (If young female denizens of the San...

This is a thread about high-rated movies an Infidel dislikes or hasn't bothered with. A few years ago we did the opposite -- low-rated movies the poster loves. (If anyone responds to this, should it be by re-activating that old thread, accessible via the link following?) In some cases it's...

What if you're a star? Don't forget: 63 Million Americans heard that and thought "THAT's the man I want demolishing the East Wing of the White House. Make America Great Again!"

Jen Psaki reviews the recent performance of Trump's top Cabinet members. I've ridiculed this troop of buffoons myself, but even I was shocked by the latest allegations.

Let's not exaggerate. There's no evidence he's ever even molested a 12 year-old. In this video, where Trump is caught on camera flirting with a ten year-old, all he says is that he'll be dating her in ten years, when she'll be above the age of consent. This is a short clip from a longer...

I wrote "main source of news" initially, and changed the word -- very wrongly -- when I noted that the much-time-spending threads had nothing to do with news. I read a lot, but mostly 10- or 20-year old books (or older) so not "news." I keep busy with games, puzzles, recreations, movies...