It’s pretty easy to make fun of Tom Cruise – especially with the whole couch -jumping incident and his Scientology issues, but he actually can act. He’s also in two of the better recent science fiction films I’d seen: Oblivion, and* Edge of Tomorrow*. Edge of Tomorrowsuffered from a lot of issues at the studio level. No-one seemed to have any idea how to market it, and the Japanese short-novel the concept was borrowed from had an even less descriptive title (All You Need is Kill). It almost se…
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Over on Gab, a recent post [https://gab.ai/judgedread/posts/1057976] by Judge Dread @judgedread encapsulated a point I know I’ve made in the past: > Cities breed liberalism because cities are the only place where you can survive with absolutely no contact with the realities of the natural world, and liberalism is above all else a denial of nature. #Science [https://gab.ai/hash/Science] What I find funny is that it’s liberals who insist on passing on trite stories about how helping a butterfly…
Few realize that Rudyard Kipling also wrote a couple of science fiction stories – *With the Night Mail [https://www.blogger.com/]*and As Easy as ABC [http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/abc.htm]. Both feature a international organization – the Aerial Board of Control – that managed all airship traffic and supressed nationalist tendencies. The second of the stories, As Easy as A. B. C.in particular deals with a a Board of Control ship supressing a democratic revolt in Chicago. It’s interest…
The Didact recently brought up yet another recent case of “flash mob” violence [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/10/guess-ethnicity.html] where the article is strangely…. quiet… about describing the perpetrators. Short version, 50 or so “youths” were arrested , with hundreds running around in groups from 20 to 50, ganging up on and beating up people in northern Philadelphia over the course of an evening. Just from the headline alone one would guess, based on who actually does these kind of…