Does this mean he’s going to go back to singing with the Stray Cats?
My first real job was for my state’s “assigned risk pool”. I won’t name my state here for privacy reasons, but many states have this concept.
The idea is, if you have such an awful driving record that NOBODY will volunteer to write you a policy, you go through the assigned risk pool. The pool “randomly” assigns you to an insurance company, which has to take you. The insurance company writes you a liability only policy, in theory at a substantially higher rate than you’d get if you didn’t have such a lousy record.
In practice, since liability is mandatory if you want to drive, and public transportation stinks, there was a lot of political pressure to keep rates down. If memory serves (this was 15+ years ago) there was a cap: no matter how many accidents, DWI convictions, or tickets you had, they could only charge you a certain amount over market.
No, Foucault was the guy with the pendulum.
Do you think he should have just wasted it?
I honestly don’t know too much about his personal politics.
Which may be one of the best compliments you can pay to a celebrity these days…
I think “Rollerball” is actually a pretty based movie.
ANY mayo on a sandwich is too much mayo.
I don’t condone this kind of violence…but I understand it.
“Daily Harvest”.
Say, aren’t those the people whose snacks have been giving folks horrible gastrointestinal issues? Even causing some people to have surgery?
Oh, man. I am absolutely delighted someone else remembers the drunken wife beaters attempt to buy a gun…
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on why. Seems to me like they’ve been churning out a fair amount of poorly received stuff under his reign, so I’d be inclined to take a wait and see attitude.
“In a major executive shake-up, Peter Rice, chairman of Disney’s entertainment and programming, is exiting the company, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Sources say embattled Disney CEO Bob Chapek summoned Rice to his office Monday and relieved the former Fox exec of his duties. The CEO, who took over for Bob Iger last year, is said to have felt that Rice was no longer a fit.”
“The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.” —Schlock Mercenary, “The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”, #29
There was a guy in NYC (Dr. Julian Heicklen) who did this every day for years. He passed away in March.
He was charged with jury tampering in 2010, but the case was thrown out in 2012: the judge said he was within his First Amendment rights as long as he didn’t “target individual jurors”.
“This one's just for fun, really.”
If you can’t have fun while saving the universe, what’s the point of saving it?
Any comment with the words “grooming” or “groomers” will be removed?
Seems highly specific. Also seems like a good reason to brush up on Cockney rhyming slang.
Now, what rhymes with “groomer”?
Film Threat? Chris Gore?
Wow. That’s a blast from the past.
Nightmare Alley
Has anyone seen this?
Wikipedia says it was a massive flop (grossing half the budget) but I think del Toro makes interesting movies.
And I’ve watched the original 1947 version. I hear that this version sticks much closer to the ending of the book…
I’m personally delighted by this.
I’m hoping it blows up the entire NFL. Especially the part about “the owner offered me money to tank games”.
Even a blind hog finds an acorn sometimes.
Do it! Do it!
Report everyone and everything. Overwhelm them with reports, so they don’t have enough time or people to respond to them all. Tie up as many resources as you can making them chase false leads.
“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.”
“The Stainless Steel Rat” by Harry Harrison. SF, short and lighter in tone than “Gulag”.
Intergalactic con man is co-opted into working for the Government, but still adheres to his own personal morality…and continues to make a profit on the side.
What are you talking about?
Gun control. I won’t vote for anyone who is in favor of more gun laws.
Not exactly an issue, but in second place: I don’t vote for politicians who call me in the phone or send me text messages.
Sorry. 37, not 47.