malthaussen
malthaussen's JournalBelatedly watching "Star Trek Continues," and I am impressed.
Script, production values, direction -- all very good. It has the feel of TOS (and James Doohan's son plays Scotty).
But it is very hard to adjust to the weak tenor voices of the actors playing Kirk and Spock, compared to the baritones of the original actors. That's a minor flaw, though, otherwise this is good stuff, if you liked TOS.
-- Mal
My computer baseball league LA team now has the following top 5 batting order:
Mookie Betts, SS; Shohei Ohtani, RF, Mike Trout, CF, Matt Holliday, LF, and Pedro Guerrero, 1B.
I'd match those guys against Murderer's Row any day.
-- Mal
What's your favorite fast food?
Those of us who aren't food snobs might confess to occasionally grabbing a quick meal at one of the many fast-food franchises that dot the landscape. So what's your favorite? I'll go with the Baconator from Wendy's, which is a little more expensive than other burgers, but at least not as expensive as Five Guys. And, of course, it has bacon.
-- Mal
Why aren't we calling her Karma-la?
Too predictable, maybe? Anyway, here's hoping she's a nice bit of Karma for ole DJT.
-- Mal
I wonder sometimes if the way the Press and politicians constantly resort to hyperbole...
... has inoculated voters so much that they think the dire warnings about DJT and Project 2025 are just more of the same. As these days there are no superlatives, and everything is equally awesome and important -- for the next five minutes -- they could just shrug it all off as more clickbate and go back to watching exploitation TV.
Not so much the alleged "short attention span" as a conviction, based on experience, that it's all bullshit anyway.
-- Mal
Donald Trump owns the GOP. I think they need a new animal mascot to reflect this.
A slug, maybe? How about a mud puppy?
Post your suggestions here!
-- Mal
I wonder when the Christofascists will criminalize menstruation.
I mean, let's face it, every month women cruelly murder potential babies and yet we don't hold them accountable for it. This carnage should stop! Any month a woman isn't actively pregnant is genocide!
The horrid thing is, I'm not so sure some of them don't think exactly that.
-- Mal
A Question on Polls for British DUers
How do the actual election results in yesterday's General Election compare with the pre-election polls? Did Labour do better than expected? Any surprises? (Obviously, Reform winning 4 seats is an unpleasant surprise, but weren't they projected to take 7?).
I ask because I've been thinking recently that the polls are getting more and more out-of-touch with the voters, especially when it comes to enthusiasm (or acceptance) for the Left, and the popularity of the Right. It seems to me from across the puddle that the Left performed better than expected, and the Right really tanked. Is this accurate?
-- Mal
No Party has ever won as many as 410 seats in Parliament in the 20th century.
The Conservatives topped out at 397 back in 1983. Some of us may remember Maggie and all her works.
This is non-trivial.
-- Mal
I'm watching the British elections closely...
... while Britain seems to follow the US in most things political (a lot like Australia in that), I think, or perhaps "hope" is a better word, that what happens Over There will be a foreshadowing of what happens here. Yes, the situations are not exactly parallel, but I have been thinking that the British public are as fed up with the "Conservatives" as the US public is with the GOP. And the Conservatives seem to have closely modelled themselves on the GOP: the same arrogant indifference to the public, the same sense of entitlement, the same (or worse!) tired old isolationist and economic rhetoric.
If true, based on the current projections from Over There, we'll be popping champagne corks for days after our own election.
-- Mal
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