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OK, confession time. I don't cry at a lot of movies - a few scenes get me from time to time like Riley breaking down about her sadness to her parents in Inside Out (I mean, I'm a father to two daughters, how is that not going to hit me?), CS Lewis and his stepson Douglas sobbing together over...

Along those lines, when we went to see Inside Out in the theater, there were a number of small kids in attendance (our kids, also with us, were considerably older). When Bing Bong disappears, we heard one small, clueless poppet cheerfully call out "Bye bye, Bing Bong!" while we heard another...

Two college experiences come to mind. Our film committee would schedule 3 films a week (this was the 1980s) - an older, mainstream movie on one night that would show for free, a recent mainstream movie that they charged a dollar for on another night, and a foreign film that they showed for free...

I may be lucky in that regard. Most of my favorites are in reasonably close alignment with myself. Helps when you like expressly political music. Weeds things down fast.

A game product is a luxury item, strictly voluntary. So it’s easy to forego game products from known bad actors. But if your only local grocery store is anti-union, it’s harder to withhold your money. Same with computers and smartphones. Foregoing them tends to hamper your ability to get by in...

There’s a difference between conducting business with someone briefly, where their odious politics never comes up and being LOUD with despicable political views. There are lines that can be crossed, if you ask me. Is there no bigotry that, when known, will stop you from doing business?

If that's really the case (and it's not an unreasonable assessment), then it's time to wind down that product line in favor of something else. Better that than continually deal with Nazis.

That’s not the version I saw in Mark Twain’s Notebook.

Not debt, but perhaps moral obligation...

This is how we know it's science-FICTION. That's even less believable than warp speed.

At that point, I think it's reasonable to look at how things balance - how much are victims injured vs how much power the perpetrator has to avoid consequences and, potentially, reoffend. There were a little under 1000 people affected, the majority of them for $60 or less, the maximum damage...

Heard it, sure. I hear a lot of things. Not all of them I would characterize as fundamentally, or even remotely, true.

I've been responding to Mournblade94's claim that people buying into Harry Potter merch, and Warner's development of an HBO series for Harry Potter, aren't contributing to her ability to wage war on transwomen. Both of those demonstrably are as Rowling herself claims. It's not "just licensing"...

It's true that the backers of the prior kickstarter are victims of JG's incompetence, but the just remedy for that is to hold JG accountable for it (somehow), not have someone else take on that burden for them and ease them off the hook. Justice isn't just for victims, it's for the perpetrators...

And SHE STILL GETS MONEY from all of that. Buy her books now, she still gets money. Keep her properties popular and that raises their value enabling her to claim higher licensing fees. And she uses her money for nefarious ends. The fact that people, including myself, bought her books and went to...

Where does she get her money? She didn't have it when she was on the dole. She got that money from her Harry Potter franchise - all of it - the book royalties, the licensing. It ALL contributed to her wealth - wealth she uses to harm transgender people, particularly transgender women, and taunts...

... which is exactly what Universal/Warner Brothers is doing now. They're definitely compromising with transphobia, rabid, rabid transphobia. This isn't the flex you think it is.

Retired SCOTUS Justice David Souter has died. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-supreme-court-justice-souter-dies-court-says-2025-05-09/

And not just business, but politics as well. I remember a time when a politician had to resign a leadership post by endorsing a white supremacist. That wasn’t very long ago, but then someone got elected and people lost their damn minds and it’s been downhill since.

Well, it was available at the time, and that means it made an impression on people relatively starved for that kind of content, and now drives a lot of nostalgia probably well beyond its actual usefulness. Nostalgia is a heavy drug. Edit: Given when it was published, it’s also a much bigger...