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An Infernal Reminder About the Economy
Mar. 29th, 2020 09:24 amTabitha Southey types a reminder about the economics of the moment with a Hellish pedigree. You may file it next to The Screwtape Letters, perhaps.
Just came across this on Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/state-department-white-supremacist-group-124500
Hoping it gets done. That particular gang of creeps deserves to have more of their days and nights made troublesome. "Very fine people", my near-sighted eye.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/state-department-white-supremacist-group-124500
Hoping it gets done. That particular gang of creeps deserves to have more of their days and nights made troublesome. "Very fine people", my near-sighted eye.
RUSSIA/EU: Dugin Getting Quoted
Jul. 7th, 2019 06:24 pmGenocide-whisperer(1) Aleksandr Dugin got a few words in edgewise in this article, I noticed, comparing Putin to a force called the Katechon.
If there's anyone I'd consider closest to a human anti-christ in this day and age, it's Dugin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html
(1) Yes, I am going to call him that. It fits.
If there's anyone I'd consider closest to a human anti-christ in this day and age, it's Dugin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/pope-francis-putin.html
(1) Yes, I am going to call him that. It fits.
Mad Comic-Book Science and Pig Brains
Apr. 28th, 2018 08:53 amSo I saw this article this morning:
Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News
My super-hero comics-invested brain immediately thought of DC Comics' Robotmen, Bob Crane and Cliff Steele. Shortly thereafter, there was Anton Ivanov, the self-described "Superior" from Marvel+ABC's Agents of SHIELD TV series...
Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News
My super-hero comics-invested brain immediately thought of DC Comics' Robotmen, Bob Crane and Cliff Steele. Shortly thereafter, there was Anton Ivanov, the self-described "Superior" from Marvel+ABC's Agents of SHIELD TV series...
So I'm finding myself reading this retrospective/interview with Hugo Weaving on his career to date. Some comic book movie-watchers pay attention to a particular item re: The First Avenger.
Much respect to Mr. Weaving, and the Skull's first apparant MCU demise did seem ambiguously staged by design.
But maybe it's all the comebacks and "last stands" his character's comics counterpart has made over the decades since being revived in the 1960's, particularly the one in the latter group staged by J.M. deMatteis, Paul Neary and company in the 1980's. Frankly, I am feeling increasingly cheated by every revival of the Skull in the comics. The latest "How would the Skull take the "what would you do about Hitler if you could time-travel to his childhood" question and turn it on its head?" plotline now running in Steve Rogers: Captain America...even more disturbing in its way.
Anyway. I think I'd prefer to leave Weaving's performance in The First Avenger stand as its own thing.
Just a thought.
Much respect to Mr. Weaving, and the Skull's first apparant MCU demise did seem ambiguously staged by design.
But maybe it's all the comebacks and "last stands" his character's comics counterpart has made over the decades since being revived in the 1960's, particularly the one in the latter group staged by J.M. deMatteis, Paul Neary and company in the 1980's. Frankly, I am feeling increasingly cheated by every revival of the Skull in the comics. The latest "How would the Skull take the "what would you do about Hitler if you could time-travel to his childhood" question and turn it on its head?" plotline now running in Steve Rogers: Captain America...even more disturbing in its way.
Anyway. I think I'd prefer to leave Weaving's performance in The First Avenger stand as its own thing.
Just a thought.
