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And there were plenty of movies made "the hard way" that tanked at the box office. "Crime 101", "Mercy", and "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" are three prominent star-driven, big-budget live-action movies that failed to turn a profit at the box office so far in 2026.

You do realize that the radio stations and everyone who worked at them used their radio "scene" as a way to make a living, right?

There are plenty of semi-wild and semi-domesticated chickens in the Caribbean and Florida. I still want to eat the rooster who woke me up from a great dream at 3am.

And this is another good time to remember Jim Steinman, the genius who brought us "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and many of Meatloaf's greatest hits.

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Why do climate people write headlines like this? Everyone gets cynical and dismissive when they endure predictions like those made by Al Gore or Greta Thunberg. Even if the predictions are directionally correct, people remember phrases like "locked in" and assume that the entire science was broken. If the current only partially collapses or changes in a material way, everyone will say, "See, it wasn't locked in."

Probably with the help of some insider who told the criminals that the account existed. They figured you would never notice.

Yes. Or they stayed put. I had a friend who lived at home and drove a Jaguar. He helped his mom occasionally, but it was a financially great deal that allowed him to live large.

That's a big if. Maybe you'll be right. But the odds are you'll find yourself like Germany as it watches Poland blast by it in GDP. Or maybe you'll be like England where recently 30k++ people were kicked off the National Health waiting list. Why? Because they died before the doctor could see them.

And, hey, you've got low cost education already. It's called YouTube and Udemy and Coursera, but I'm sure you've got some nutty dream that only includes huge leafy campuses and aging Marxist professors like Donald Sutherland in "Animal House." It's some old vision of what "education" might be. But I'm here like the Mayor in "Wizard of Oz" to tell you that you and your cohort already has the power thanks to the Great Capitalist engine of Silicon Valley that built the Internet.

One of these days the public housing projects in Vienna will get the Internet. I'm sure.

You can be on the plane tomorrow. If you're really committed to living under the beautiful Communist dream, it can be yours within 24 hours. Do you really think that it's going to just be Mamdani victory after Mamdani victory going forward and that in 10-20 years you'll be living in paradise?

And, btw, the youth are also time constrained. Sorry to burst your bubble.

As the mayor says, "Bye!"

I believe a few states would have fewer seats in Congress if it weren't for some last minute adjustments. It wasn't the actual election. It was the allocation of seats to each state that had the biggest effect.

The Rs are just confused. The manipulation happened but they didn't need DP to do it.

As I said, it wasn't the disclosure avoidance that generated the most discrepancies. It was other forms of adjustments.

The easiest way to do this is to leave the US. Why not go to Cuba? Or Venezuela? Or Russia? The options are out there.

Can anyone explain why they're so excited about immigration? It means downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on rents. Yet they claim they're doing it for the good of the current US residents. I can't figure it out.

And there still is today. But are they producing good nectarines? Apparently not as good as these.

I know that occasionally philanthropic research works out, but generally I find that people are motivated by profit.

The 2020 Census had a number of issues and many of them ended up giving the Democrats more seats in the House than they should have. Oh, and the Census results were due at the White House in December 2016, but somehow they didn't reach the WH until January 21, 2017.

Was Differential Privacy specifically involved? I don't think so, but I think it's being lumped into the mix and being blamed for the other issues.

What's your plan? The parents don't believe the charges made against their child. At least the video helps the school figure out what happened and convey this accurately to the parents.

But it sounds like you have some magic idea of how this will work. Could you share it with us?

Let me tell you that the Internet was really wild in the 70s. No need to log on or anything. It really was like the movie "War Games." If you had the right phone number, you were golden.

Yes, this is concerning. But there's also the other side. Some of the little miscreants who shared my bus ride were positively nasty. Some surveillance would have helped a number of people avoid bullying.

I suppose if they were actually deployed to the theater, the odds would be different. But they literally don't get within miles of the enemy so it's pretty hard for the enemy to kill them. Yes, there are dangers in a world filled with drones and missiles, but it's not that large.

I thought so too. Then I read the arguments about the passage of the amendment. The people passing clearly stated that, say, the children of ambassadors wouldn't be eligible. It was mainly aimed at clearing up the questions about the various Native Americans who may have considered themselves independent. It wasn't about opening the doors to anyone.

Really? If someone passes a law that criminalizes the activity of migrants, they say they're doing it to improve safety and living conditions. But it seems like the current people in the left-wing tent hate restrictions on migrants and view such regulations as racist.

I'm much older. I've always been able to type faster than I can write by hand. Forcing me to handwrite an answer slows me down -- and produces something that's much harder to read.

People who want to use the current system to innovate and create jobs. The current system of venture capital often produces these situations when people have a huge amount paper "wealth". But this wealth is all pretty hypothetical. It's not like some of the "billionaires" can buy 1 billion things from the McDonald's Dollar Menu. It's all tied up in stock that can't be sold for a variety of reasons. Moreover, it's quite likely that the "billionaire" will end up with far less than $1b when he/she retires, even if everything is wildly successful.

Yet that big number encourages greedheads to try to tax something that doesn't really exist.

And when those "union" bosses run off with the pension fund, who do you call? Or when they insist on the dues and then use them for something else?

And in "Moonraker" someone steals one in transport. It could happen here, I suppose.

I thought the same thing.

And I think some of the advertisement screens in places like Times Square could easily scale to 20 stories. I don't think they're that big now, but I think they could do it with little trouble.

The cartoon villainy is not the administration but the people who want to portray it that way. Anyone who reads the article will find a lengthy statement from the NPS that spells out something very different from the headline. They're not told to stay silent, but to wait the right amount of time and coordinate to avoid miscommunication and error.

This is what people say but I have yet to experience it myself. But maybe the problem is that I never had great expectations for management. I always assumed it was all a business. Making money was the goal. The unions, though, push this dreamy narrative about how there are these great knights in shining armor that will always defend you. Bah. Baloney. They're also profit-maximizing people motivated by selfishness, but they hide it.

Your suspicions are wrong in my case. (Yours may be different.) For the most part, I've found that companies have treated me fairly and, if anything, avoided making overly rosy promises. It's always been a very quid-pro-quo message.

Unions, though, spin up these stories of worker protections that haven't worked out in my life. When the unions didn't defend my colleague, I was pretty much gobsmacked. It was such a clear case. But in the end they didn't even give a reason. And they didn't have to because, well, they're a magical union and people like you reflexively love them and imagine that they'll defeat that evil capital. Hah. The scales fell off my eyes. I'm sure you'll experience the same one day.