Recent content by Mulberry Heel

I'm not a business person, but taking on that much debt doesn't seem feasible for Paramount/Skydance in the long run unless they're able to turn massive profits very quickly. It seems inevitable that, despite their claims, they're going to have to either sell or simply shut down many of their...

As usual, that was their Super Bowl/National Title game all wrapped into one. And when they won nothing else since has seemed to matter. Wade will live off that win against us until next season, no matter how badly things end for his team this season, just like Doeren does. The life of a State...

I saw a poll recently that had Crockett ahead in the primary, I was surprised as pretty much every other poll I've seen regarding this race showed Talarico leading. I would think, just based on a superficial look at both candidates, that Talarico's religious appeal would appeal more generally in...

So he admits that Iran's nuclear program had already been obliterated and therefore wasn't a threat, and it would have taken them many years, if ever, to rebuild somewhere else. So why the hell are we bombing them? Based on what is no doubt very dubious intel from Israel that they were going to...

And so completely fucking unnecessary. Those four people should be alive right now - there was no damned reason to do this, at all. And we all know that Trump and Hegseth don't really give a shit about them or the families they leave behind - Trump all but said it yesterday. To him they're...

So basically the UAE and our other allies in the region are going to run out of interceptors soon, while Iran can keep shooting their cheaper missiles and drones at them for a longer period of time. Sounds swell. Dear Leader and Pete "Macho Man" Hegseth have really got a handle on this thing...

TBH, I'll believe that "Trump is cooked" when it actually happens. That man has more political lives than a cat, and in the end I think his base will rally to him nearly every time, because as has been frequently mentioned it's a cult of personality, not a political party. It shouldn't be at all...

If this continues to its ultimate conclusion, one has to wonder what the value of a degree from schools like Texas A&M is going to be worth. Probably their STEM programs will be fine, but the humanities and liberal arts? What good is a degree from a school in which critical thinking and academic...

So if it comes down to Platner versus Collins, who would you vote for - or would you just not vote? And I'm not arguing for Platner, just curious.

Given the failures of nearly every other major power (dating back to the old British Empire) to permanently defeat and pacify Afghanistan to their liking, good luck to Pakistan on being yet the latest nation to delude itself into thinking they can actually have much of an impact there.

I do think that Platner has definitely made some odd choices (to say the least) in everything from his taste in tattoos to some of the people he associates with. Having said that, he appears to be the odds-on favorite at this point to win the primary, and if I lived in Maine I'd definitely vote...

Their weekly Film Noir series (called Noir Alley) is great, it's hosted by a dude named Eddie Muller who knows his stuff about Noir films and he really gets into his role as host, sometimes wearing a fedora when he introduces a film. The original main TCM host was a former actor named Robert...

Yes, but one is the longtime majority leader of the state senate who has used his power to wreck NC public ed piece by piece and is one of the major roadblocks to improving public ed in this state. The other will be a rookie legislator with little to no power to do much of anything. They're both...

That might be OK provided the online library was permanent and couldn't suddenly be yanked away as often happens with streaming services now. Some streaming services are already available for old movies, but their film list is often limited and there are few of the extras I like. Some studios...

I do like TCM, which I believe that Warner owns, so I wonder what will happen to it with the takeover. Warner very nearly gutted the network a few years ago until some major Hollywood celebs like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese begged them to preserve the network and they did...