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[neonvincent]

My comment on DOES J.D. VANCE WANT A LITERAL SHOOTING WAR AGAINST PROGRESSIVES AND "WOKE CAPITAL"?

The Razzies had the number of the movie adaptation of "Hillbilly Elegy." It earned three nominations for Golden Raspberries, Worst Supporting Actress for Glenn Close, Worst Director for Ron Howard, and Worst Screenplay. Vanessa Taylor got the nomination, but I think a lot of the issues are with the source material, so J.D. Vance should have earned a nomination, too.

My comment on TRUMP IS GULLIBLE AND DANGEROUS, BUT HE'S NOT CRAZY.

"[Y]ou're running a sex ring from your college marching band's Facebook page" — don't give any especially depraved bandos reading this any ideas. Seriously, I never thought I'd see someone mention marching band and mellophones in the comments to a political blog. Kudos to you!

My comment on Toward the Breaking Point.

"Coronavirus advice from official sources during the outbreak has resembled nothing so much as the weather here in southern New England: if you don’t like it, wait a little while and it’ll be different." This is one of my sayings about the weather in Michigan, although I first heard it when I spent summers in Massachusetts. The converse of it was that if you did like it, too bad, it's going to change anyway. Maybe it would have been better if it were like the weather on the west coast, which is more stable, especially where I grew up in southern California. On the other hand, if you didn't like the weather there, too bad; you were stuck with it all week.

I was not familiar with "the Affair of the Necklace," so I looked it up. Imagine my surprise to read that one of the people arrested was Giuseppe Balsamo alias Count Alessandro Cagliostro, Freemason, occultist, forger, and one of the people Aleister Crowley claimed as a prior incarnation. His name caught my attention because I was an anime fan and one of my favorite anime movies was "The Count of Caligliostro," whose only connection to the actual man was the name, the title, and a talent for forgery, or rather counterfeiting. Oh, and he was a scoundrel, too. Still, it was interesting to find an occultist mentioned in the story, even if he was acquitted of any crime related to the necklace.

My comment on Saturday Palate Cleanser.

LOL. After looking up the birds to find out that they are rose-breasted cockatoos or galahs, I'm hearing that in an Australian accent, right down to substituting Year 12 formal for prom. I'm a zoologist; why do you ask?

Tweet reply: I looked for schools with colors that matched the birds and found Vassar, whose colors are rose and silver-gray.
http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/early-vassar/rose-and-silver-gray.html

My comment on Whispers From Antiquity.

The irony that strikes me about evidence for ancient technological civilizations is most likely to be believed when people ascribe it to aliens. That's the Star Trek future comes down to Earth and therefore fits the religion of progress in its own way. One might thank Erich von Däniken for that, but it's also in the original series, where Greco-Roman gods like Helios/Apollo turn out to be advanced aliens and a precedessor species took early humans off Earth and seeded them among the stars, and the animated series, where the Mayan diety Kulkukan also reveals himself as an alien, although the latter was actually inspired by "Chariots of the Gods?" Still, the connection between Star Trek and aliens visiting Earth in the past and bringing technology with them is one that goes back to the beginning of the franchise.