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"Marathon Man."

I think it was my fifth viewing that I realized a character from the beginning shows up briefly in the middle.

"Family Plot" gets little love from the critics, which is a shame.

Funny, scary, and full of twists.

"The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove. Short story.

The aliens have space ships and that's it. They still use horses, bows and arrows, and spears.

Turns out, space travel is easy and we've been doing things the hard way...

No idea. Read it in high school and that's a while back.

Can't remember the author or title.

Old short story where humans land on a planet where the advanced species has gone extinct.

The Terrans have no way of translating the language until someone finds a classroom and figures out what they used for the periodic table.

The NFL story makes a lot more sense than the alternative.

Trump et al would love to have a big Luigi movement to point to right now.

It would be a distraction from Epstein and a reason for much more domestic spying.

Are you trying to tell me that the people who make money off of paranoid rich people wouldn't be pushing the idea of hordes of domestic terrorists coming for them?

Look what 9/11 did for Bush Jr, and then quadruple it.

For All Mankind I liked the first season, but no, it doesn't get better.

Each season does a different decade, so the leads age up.

It overplays the science fiction card. For example, in the last season they are on Mars. One of the workers is smuggling minerals to Earth for jewelry. None of the CIA/KGB people notices that Martian jewely is being advertised in in the newspapers.

Black Sails. Pirates done better than the Johnny Depp movies.

Penny Dreadful. Witches, werewolves, vampires, immortals, and Eva Green as a psychic.

Landman. Billy Bob Thornton as the site manager for an independent oil company. Has to deal with the cartels who smuggle across his feilds; the crazy idiots who work for him; the maniac who he works for; and his psycho family.

"Adjusted for inflation" is a lie.

Think of it this way. $1 million in 1960 would buy you a couple of mansions, a fleet of nice cars, and you'd have enough left to put into investments that would give you income for life.

$11 million today won't buy the nicest house on the block.

Also, the inflation for luxuries leaves regular inflation in the dust.

Back around 1960, $5,000.00 a year was a sold, middle class income. A Jaguar sportscar was about $6,000 and a Rolls was about $25,000.

Even if you spend the money to get a First Class airline ticket, you know that there are plenty of private planes out there.

Harlan Ellison wrote an essay about 'fuck you money,' the amount he needed to have in the bank so he could tell the studios to fuck off. Back in the day he could go six months on $1,000.

It's obviously a basic human desire. Porn's been around since the Stone Age. Might as well ask why do people like games.

His book "War And Anti-War" came out around 1996.

He predicted that the next American war would be against a non-state, maybe the cartels or a terrorist group.