DoctorAtomic

The Vietnam War was the one scored by CCR. Hard take. Hayley at Sub Hub is one of my favorite sub plots. And we have Roger as different background characters. I can't believe they got 'bbc' by the censors. Nicely done. Twice. I liked that Stan drained a 3 as Frankenstein's monster. I was hoping with the recent public domain releases of Winnie the Pooh and Steamboat Mickey Mouse that they might have dragged them in. tbh, Hayley might be the most well adjusted of the Smiths. She's got a steady job, takes some classes, and gets high.

I was trying to work out watching Lewis Black, but I was getting cramps from the monologue. Dry (damp) January kind of makes me roll my eyes. Don't drink if you don't want. I'm not going to force you. I like to drink. I do moderately, probably on the high end. I don't go on a massive bender over the holidays that I have to force myself to dry out for a month though. I think there's a more fundamental issue going on here if 'this is the third year I'm doing dry January.' I liked the interview too. My phone is way old. I have a galaxy 10. I think another issue that they didn't bring up is that nothing is made to be fixed anymore. We had a 65' hdmi enabled tv that we were using as a monitor for some simulation software and it died. I figured we could just replace a video card or something, but we couldn't even open the unit so it's junked. My old desktop is from 2008, and I could at least replace the video card, and the computer still works fine. My current laptops though, same thing. They can't be fixed.

Ah, I was hoping for a Ruby movie, but I'll take it.

I don't really care either way about this Faith plot. As we've all pointed out, it's impossible for infant Faith to have processed the song to pass it on. I'm genuinely interested in how the show ends though. Because Jamie doesn't die and I want my props.

Can this go to the courts then? It doesn't seem like due process or equal protection to me.

I don't want to do it if no one wants it. Also I watch typically later than some of you because I'm in bed when the episode drops.

We all know presidents don't write executive orders, but typically, they have some hand in crafting them, or coming up with the subject matter. In this administration, we all know it's just coming from project 2025. With that, I want to know who is hooking up with trans girls so much that they're terrified of that getting out publicly. Otherwise, I can't explain the massive marginalization of the 0.1% of them in the military. What is that? Like 100 people? Certainly, our readiness is not threatened in the slightest.

I wish I could watch the Rockets on TNT or ESPN. The Knicks are on tonight yet again. I think they've been on more than Boston, and I don't really like Boston that much. I don't have the bandwidth to watch more than a couple of games a week, so I'm not paying more for another package.

I'm not sure who the 'we' in 'We voted for him' to which Jon was referring because iirc half the voters did not in fact vote for him because we knew precisely what was going to happen because he literally said it. I'm not going to paint either sets of voters with too broad of a brush, but I will say maybe figuratively fellating the undecided uninformed, low effort voters might not have been worth the price. Constantly screeching fascist wasn't a good tactic either because, like Charlemagne said, now it's all "well, if there's some good ideas..." More people didn't vote than did vote. That's the source of the problem. I appreciate that they're exhausted, and there is some both sides are just as bad, but it's their fault too.

Ha! I don't feel so bad because one guy asked the same thing in the Las Vegas episode tonight. How about that painting?

I'd rather magic not be involved. I can deal with the ghosts, but bringing magic into the show at this late stage seems way hacky to me. This whole plot seems hacky enough as it is. Really though, 'magic' and 'miracles' could just mean Raymond is a time traveller too and had more knowledge than anyone. Or, like Gellis, he just knew more at that time period.

I don't know, if you're a sports fan in general, I think seeing a potential 3 peat in any sport generates interest. I haven't watched more than 10 minutes all year, and I'll be watching again. I'm hoping we're doing the live chat again here because I'll be munching on my homemade chili cheese nachos and wanting to chit chat about the game. I know hindsight and all that, but playing the game out as it was, kicking the extra points instead of going for 2 both times, you're probably tied at 31 and going to OT. Coaches tend to outcoach themselves, when bottom line the objective is to put points on the board.

I forgot to add that I liked Stephen A.'s analogy of the Rooney rule to DEI. I couldn't get why Bill couldn't understand.

You should try when Sarah Isgur is on. Seriously, I'm not saying that in a 'take my wife. please' was. She doesn't do that and she actually knows what she's talking about. And she doesn't whatabout. Just in general, NIH review panels are halted. So currently submitted grants are on hold. Ro said that diabetes research was halted, and I also saw that the NIH budget proposal from the administration is to be cut by a third. Ro was trying to bring up the issue but was cut off because Bill interrupted about Democrats being too woke about trans kids or whatever. Like I was saying, Congress has to authorize a budget, so that may be all for nothing. And Congress isn't going back to normal order any time soon, so there will be nothing going on until the CR is due, and probably the government will shut down for a week while they flail around and basically pass another resolution. I do agree with Bill in not going bonkers over everything because most will end up being nothing; FEMA isn't being dissolved, but there are some things like cutting funding that can happen. I don't think Ro is a particularly good guest. Someone a little stronger might have been able to press the topic.

I do agree with the reason why Jamie punched out Lord John was a whole host of things. I'd add, and I think I said it at the time, Lord John wanted to be punished by Jamie, which is a another deal altogether. Would have been kind of hot if they all decided to be poly, but I think there's only so 'woke' Jamie can go.