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Good article, although, "Ian Fleming was such an appalling writer" was unfair. He was a mediocre writer who invented an immortal character (sort of like Conan Doyle, in that respect). I mean, who remembers Duddy Kravitz? It reminded me of Paul Johnson's review of Dr. No, "Sex, Sadism and Snobbery."
A discussion on a golf course about Ernő with Goldfinger's cousin prompted Ian Fleming to name the James Bond adversary
TBF, Goldfinger wasn't a very nice person. "Goldfinger was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages. He sometimes fired his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular, and once forcibly ejected two prospective clients for imposing restrictions on his design."
As a tennis player for almost sixty years, this is just sad.
RFK Jr is essential to the GOP's stupid people coalition. He adds an additional 5%.
Goldfinger threatened to sue and Fleming said he'd change the name of the villain to Goldprick. They settled with Fleming agreeing to pay Goldfinger's attorneys. He also gave Goldfinger six free copies of the book. He didn't change the name of the villain.
In Fifties/Sixties in London there was an architect named Erno Goldfinger. Goldfinger was famous for tearing down old buildings and replacing them with Brutalist style buildings. Fleming didn't like Goldfinger because he was a socialist, a modernist, and a Jew, so he named his villain Goldfinger.
Many of the actors in the early Bond films were dubbed. Nikki van der Zyl made a living out of dubbing the female characters. Largo was dubbed, Tiger Tanaka, Draco were dubbed. My theory is that EON saved money by hiring foreign actors with bad English but looked the part and then dubbing them.
There's a funny story about how Fleming came to name the villain Goldfinger.
For racism in the books, Live and Let Die is the worst. Check out Chapter 5.
Moore lacked the necessary physicality to play Bond.
How many of the shootings were accidental? How many were people intentionally shooting themselves? How many were murders? A responsible news organization would break out the numbers.
This guy doesn't know much about cats. You can never get them to do anything.
105% made up.
Can we start calling them pump and dump?
Trump just issued an executive order declaring himself immortal.
My mother (also English and about six months younger than the Queen) didn't like something, she'd call it "interesting."
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I'm going to go with Ike Snopes because, you know.
Yeah, he murdered that song.
It was on at 8:30-9:30 on Friday nights and my parents let me stay up since it was Friday night. Then it got moved to 10:00 and I didn't get to see it anymore.
He looks like a sweet boy.
We are not descended from fearful men.
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The video is from June which makes you wonder what they're hiding.
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Incumbency is an advantage.
This is such bullshit. Other countries have higher SSRI use (including Canada) but they have no where near the number of mass shootings as the US. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...
My very first concert was Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, six months before "Born to Run" was released.
Israel has never (ever) been our number 1 ally. They're closer to a frenemy that does whatever it wants to, regardless of the circumstances.
NYT 2026 (probably): Trump's tyranny tests the rule of law.
This is where we'll be by January, at the latest.
Many of Trump's issues were big among the Right-wing in the Seventies. Crime, drugs, urban decay, inflation, foreign aid. And as subtext, racism. Porn and abortion were also big, but not so much with Trump.
I think you may have accidentally skipped over unified Democratic control of the House, Senate and White House in 2020-24, the best four years in America since 1996-2000.
Hey, how'd that work out for you?
As Bill Clinton said, Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.
That's why the media loves him!
No, I want to know specifically what he said.
What is "his transgender betrayal?"
We are not descended from fearful men.
If the appeals court thought the amount was too high, they should have ordered a remittitur.
What are my Social Security benefits compared to being able to deny gays the right to marry?
You take your radio out of the car and take it with you. That's what everybody in 1990 does.
Ultimately, it's the 77 million Americans who voted for Trump who are to blame. If he hadn't been re-elected, he'd be on his way to prison now.
But, at the same time, Trump's administration is a never ending series of non-serious distractions. Buy Greenland, invade Canada (other way around?) take back the Panama Canal, check on the gold in Fort Knox. These were all big stories but nothing came of them.
Hey, is there one for the early Seventies?
How did he get up there?
It was like saying, "New Jersey."
I was in a restaurant with my daughter, my son and my son's wife (Father's Day) when I first saw that and I started laughing. I explained that for a long time, Trump was basically a joke. In the Eighties and Nineties if a comic needed a laugh, he'd just say, "Donald Trump."
No. The media failed. It normalized Trump so that 77 million voters thought it reasonable to vote for a convicted felon who hid top secret documents in the shitter and tried to overthrow the government. Harris ultimately lost because she is a woman.
"Why did the Harris campaign lean into Biden’s record, from the economy to Gaza, and effectively run for a second Biden term?" Because Biden was an excellent president.
I want to know what she did to be "honored." Did she give five grand and her name was listed in a program along with a hundred others?
Or bought a ticket for $1,000.
The guy has never heard the term "unconditional surrender."
What made Maxwell an "honored guest?" Was she given an award or something?
What made Maxwell an "honored guest?" Was she given an award or something?
Hmmmmm, Gaza.
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Cracker Barrel is a national franchise with a market cap of $1.2 billion.
It's funny how Reagan got himself elected president by appealing to white grievance, the same as Trump.
No, Tom, the Dems are semi-effective at making the lives of average people better. The GOP is very effective at aggregating power to itself and absolute shit at making the lives of average people better. The two parties are not at all the same.
The GOP, as currently constituted, is the most powerful any party has been in US history. It requires a level of loyalty to the party and the party leader similar to the CPSU during the Cold War.
He's wearing complete makeup now.
Trump truly wants to destroy America for not voting for him in 2020. The ultimate retribution.
The point is to destroy America for not voting for Trump in 2020. When you elect a psychopath, you should expect something like this.
He truly wants to destroy America for not voting for him in 2020. The ultimate retribution.
What did you think if the last Brave New Worlds episode? I really liked it, but I also liked The Godfather Part III.
He did it in his first administration. James Comey, Michael Sussman, Igor Danchenko, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, et al. None of this should come as a surprise.
Usually you have to have a heart attack before you have CHF and I hadn't heard of Trump having a heart attack.
But he's had it for a while now. Maybe a couple of months. A bruise would've healed by now.
Can DARPA make Biden president again, because I miss him.
He's going to destroy America in its totality as retribution for not voting for him in 2020.
This is why we have no black cars in Texas.
What rights of trans individuals does Newsome want to take away?
Dear Donald: Thank you. Signed John Bolton's lawyers.
The Left hasn't liked Newsome since he beat Matt Gonzalez in the 2003 mayor's race. They'll always find something to bitch about.
Yeah, fuck that Newell guy.
Yeah, like Gavin Newsome who in 2004 made San Francisco the first city in the country to provide marriage licenses to gay people. 2004. He's no Johnny-come-lately on this issue.
So, the Epstein files were at Bolton's house, all along.
Today, I saw a term I like that describes where we are: cold civil war.
If turnout in Texas is like 2018, the GOP will lose a seat after their gerrymandering. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/18/t...
One of Trump's promises was to increase oil US oil production (remember "drill, baby, drill"). To nobody's surprise, the number of operating rigs is actually down by 50 since the beginning of the year. www.aogr.com/web-exclusiv...
NYT (pre-election): Vance is right, Haitians are straining resources in this Ohio town NYT (post-election): oh, forcing the Haitians to leave is crashing the economy of this Ohio town
Progressives always had it out for him, going back to when he was mayor, even though he did a bunch of progressive stuff, such as the first city to allow gay marriage.
Two terms as SF mayor, two terms as lt. governor, two terms as governor and nobody likes the guy!
It's a good thing a convicted felon could never win a debate for president.
Since 1932, Dems have won when one or both is true: A charismatic Dem candidate (FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama) or following some historical event that favored the Dems (winning WW2, JFK assassination, Watergate, Great Recession, COVID). Otherwise they lose 100% of the time.
That's impeachment on a collateral matter and not likely to be admissible.
Yeah, I was thinking about this last night.
Trump could take care of this by having his civilian officials wear uniforms, as the Nazis did. Here's Propaganda Minister Goebbels and a friend.
How much does the Cuomo Campaign pay the NYT?
Have bribes like this worked for the Adams campaign in the past?
According to Vladeck, it's legal. bsky.app/profile/stev...
During the campaign, Trump said he'd use the DOJ against his perceived enemies.
The people saying that some Trump action or the other is "a distraction" are wrong because that implies that Trump has a plan. Trump has no plan except to have fun doing whatever he wants and in the meantime doing severe damage to America as revenge for not making him president in 2020.
Trump surrogate attacking government statistics by failing to add correctly is almost too perfect (16% + 30% ≠ “2 out of 3”)
Hey, stupid, the original post: "New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime "The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point." None of your quotes have the Dems saying, "Maybe Trump has a point about crime." Or, "Trump is right about crime."
Your posts have nothing to do with the original post. Thank you for playing.
Is this a confession?
Trump's going to award himself the Medal of Honor, isn't he? bsky.app/profile/josh...