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Offering my two bits, I suspect that part of the issue is the number of this same group being discussed that also would refer to themselves as "constitutionalists" or have "We the people" applied to their social media / car /....

You’re giving too much ground here. It wasn’t just live action. It was any media beyond the text.

I would suggest that that’s in your experience. The BBC Radio drama is far, far better than what Jackson did. I quite liked LotR but his work on the Hobbit left at least as much to be desired as RoP and, given so much silliness, I give credit that RoP did far less of a disservice to Dwarvenkind than Jackson did.

I’ve read most of his catalog. His fantasy works were very much informed by his study of the Greek classics while his science fiction was initially informed by his experience in Vietnam as well as some touch of the classics and a long running SF take on O’Brien’s Aubrey/Maturin books. I’ll miss him greatly. ETA: I’ll note that Redliners may be one of my favorite of his SF works and represented a moment in his career where he seems to have moved past his PTSD. Also, Rolling Hot, one of his Hammer’s Slammers books, has needed to be adapted into a movie for years.

Entirely dependent on being able to count on McCarthy not immediately breaking any promises made.

I’m also in the midst of Monarch. Really liking it so far. The scene with old Shaw looking at the old film with young Shaw projected over him as a well constructed scene.

Rereading Abraham’s Dagger and Coin, having recently introduced the series to my daughter. Just started King’s Blood. Also just started listening to Deadhouse Gates. First time as audio. I mostly limit my audio books to history, but we’ve got them and I’ve had more road time recently.

Saw it in the store yesterday, it’s a library checkout at best for me.

Just wrapped up John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting. I enjoyed it overall but feel like it would have been more enjoyable with a stronger knowledge of the time. Had some difficulty with characters referenced by title by some characters in a scene while others referred to the same characters, in the same scenes by surname.

Nope. Perfectly happy as long as the DU is delivered as a fin stabilized discarding sabot penetrator at muzzle velocity. It’s only the armor that’s an issue. The reactive armor was, I thought, already out of the bag. I have vague recollections of a story coming out back in the late 80s of the Israelis losing a reactive armor equipped Abrams to mechanical difficulty on the other side of a border. I can’t recall the source, location on conflict and it’s possible it was stripped as described above but my recollection is that it was at least implied to have reactive armor.

Sorry. Been down sick. Post was brief. Agreed on all points.

Pretty sure it was the AR Republicans so yes?

Sanders had a custom podium made at that dollar figure. It was paid for on a state credit card and then retroactively (after the inconvenient disclosure) marked as something to be reimbursed from one of her support groups.

Richard Moll, Bull from Night Court has died at 80. Good night, Bull.

Absolutely nothing here with which to disagree. I may have seen Malek in Larry Crown first, but if so, it wasn't by much. ETA: The High Ambrose companion book for the Pacific is quite good and adds an additional story line covering a Torpedo Bomber pilot. Worth the read IMO. When Dad died, I inherited his collection of military history books. So far, I have come across one version of Basilone's biography that was quite possibly one of the most overt movie pitches I have ever seen, and not a very good one at that. One of his sisters had a serious case of hero worship and wrote a series of articles for the local paper about him and her son, with a ghost writer took it from there.

Giffen had such an impact on my comic habits. His work with Paul Levitz, cemented my love of the Legion of Superheroes (and my disdain for most of the reboots to follow (looking at you Bendis and Waid). Super bummed by this.

As did I.

I disagree on the focus, blending three books with the common theme of being Marines in some of the same campaigns made it less focused. Smaller cast bridging between 3 companies, at least two regiments and 2 divisions makes for some hard edges. That said, it’s on annual rotation for me. My father was one of those there are no Ex-Marine guys and the last thing that he and I did together was for me to show it to him for the first time.

There is also a third - if I put her in the a’dam she’ll either a) stop attacking or b) cause herself harm by continuing to attack making the act of using it either defensive or passive. None of that relieves stringing her up with the a’dam.

There's some truth there - I very much did not care for Karsa when he was introduced. My big test was Lether. Midnight Tides was a slog for me. I get that Tehol and Bugg were much beloved by many, but was largely an annoyance to me.

I only saw two boots on Phasma’s armor?

So, 1,000-1,200 Greens. You’re still covering a continent or a massively porous border. From a force projection standpoint, it’s effective in a Dumai’s Well scenario but that’s not what they’re facing. Moreover, the nations of Randland are not united and want/feel the need to have their own force to project power and maintain borders. (Taken out of order because phones). I suppose he could have but, as a Vietnam vet, asymmetric warfare was his experience and that toothpaste doesn’t go back into the tube. Not having a safe backfield and having dark friend (insurgents) literally anywhere is a part of his reality. Conceded. However, the point still stands. The 1000 years since the 100 years war is time enough to adopt conventional force models even beyond the previous comment. Aeil =/= Ashaman. One group was actively being cultivated by a dread lord. Certainly sipping tea and forcing apprentices was a thing but they knew the weaves and still needed to teach fundamentals, including mental fundamentals. We saw much the same thing happening in the tower (as well as numerous cinematic training montages).

It's been 3500 years since the Breaking, roughly 3400 since the White Tower was constructed. Presumably, around the same time, the Three Oaths were implemented. At that point, a modification of tactics to conventional warfare would be required to occur and those conventional tactics would, by necessity, very likely become the dominate tactics on the field of battle and for holding ground. When the Tower was constructed, it was designed to accommodate 3,000 sisters, assuming equal distribution between Ajahs, that would be roughly 430 Greens when the tower was full - not enough to effectively cover even the borderland, much less a porous perimeter due to the Ways, Travelling and Skimming. Then divide that number based on the other nationalities that need to be addressed/impressed. The argument that Dumai's Wells demonstrates a massive logic gap just doesn't hold up - Taim was specifically forging the Ashaman to be offensive weapons, the Aes Sedai were not. Certainly it represents a turning point but the year between Dumai's Wells and the Last Battle is hardly enough time to establish entirely new strategies and tactics.

Looses credibility referencing greatest and Sandra Bullock in the title.

It was a great episode. This season has been super solid.