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{5/5} “What matters isn’t if people are good or bad. What matters is if they’re trying to be better today than they were yesterday.” The Good Place season 4, aired in 2019-20 A new experiment is running, with the Bad Place having sent 4 humans to the neighbourhood. Eleanor, Tahani, Jason, Michael, and Janet are […]
Thom Hartman, author of Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, reveals on his show that Republican presidents have been committing treason for some time. A couple of these are completely shocking and brand new information to me. Here’s the clip: When Did Tyranny Begin In America? Hartmann is intelligent, knowledgeable, and convincing. Here’s the main page […]
{4.5/5} “Their biggest advantage is that they operate in the shadows — so I’m going to shine a light on them.” Emergence season 1, aired in 2019-20 Jo is a police chief who is called to the site of what appears to be a plane crash. She finds a young girl who’s lost her memory. […]
{5/5} “It’s difficult to work in a group when you’re omnipotent.” — Q Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, aired in 1989-90 Doctor Crusher returns to the Enterprise. When Q is kicked out of the Continuum and loses his powers, he asks them to send him to the Enterprise. Worf discovers that he has […]
{4.5/5} “We ain’t got nobody to show us how to be better. Show us.” Troop Zero, released in 2019 Christmas spends much of her time looking up at the stars after her mom died. She discovers that NASA is sending a message into space, and she wants to be part of it. The winner of […]
{5/5} “When things work, the forces that make them work are invisible.” The Invisibility of Success and Other Investigations by Daniel Quinn, published in 2014 This is a collection of essays and talks Quinn gave over a period of several years. Here are some highlights, with direct quotations: On civilizations that disappeared, like the Maya […]
{4.5/5} “We don’t like horizons. We don’t like limits. We always want to see beyond them. We don’t stop at the water’s edge, do we? What is a beach to us but a place from which to launch ourselves at the future?” Infinity Beach by Jack McDevitt, published in 2000 Humans were creating 6 novas […]
Here’s an update to this list. Here are my mini-reviews of the first 6 movies. There are some new movies in the works but none of them have an official date yet. The original trilogy Episode IV: A New Hope 1977 -> 3.5/5 (+) Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1980 -> 4.5/5 (+) Episode […]
{4/5} “It’s not a navy. It’s just… people.” Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, released in 2019 The Rebellion has enough trouble with the First Order, and now it looks like Emperor Palpatine has survived and secretly built a fleet of ships. Rey has been training with Leia, but she doesn’t think she deserves Luke’s […]
{4.5/5} “No matter how far you think she ran, I guarantee you she ran further.” Wind River, released in 2017 Cory is tracking a trio of mountain lions that killed a steer, when he comes across the dead body of a young woman. He knows her, Natalie. Because it looks like murder and they’re on […]