Planet Comics #72 (1953). In the cover, a man in a space suit holding a rifle is trying to rescue a scantily-clad blonde from a large green man with a sword.
Cover by Maurice Whitman.
Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.
Dune (1984) Directed by David Lynch based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert and stars Kyle MacLachlan (in his film debut), Patrick Stewart, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis and Max von Sydow.
Not really a great movie but whenever someone calls a movie "visionary," this is the sort of thing they're describing.
Yes, you are.
And this...
"Your man Bernie torpedoed a healthcare bill Hillary had the votes for in 1994 because it wasn’t to HIS liking."
...is entirely fictional in every respect.
Single payer advocates were entirely excluded from Clinton's healthcare task-force. After progressives (including Jesse Jackson) objected to this, one was eventually allowed in. He was greeted with hostility by the other members and entirely ignored.
And, of course, Sanders had nothing to do with that. He'd pitched the Clntons on universal healthcare right after Bill had taken office, and they weren't interested.
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Clinton didn't "have the votes in 94"; all 4 versions of her awful Hillarycare program--filched from the Republicans--failed because none could manage even majority support in a body controlled by Democrats.
This reflects a lie Bibi Nazi Yahoo has been peddling since the early '90s. The U.S. intelligence assessment, in the meanwhile, has, for years, been that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2002 (don't know if that has changed since).
That was Steny Hoyer, the #2 Dem in the House at the time, caught on a secret recording trying to basically strongarm a progressive Dem out of a competitive Colorado congressional race in which the DCCC had endorsed one of his opponents, a corporate lawyer.
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Then, when the run for again, after having racked up such an appalling record, the DCCC spends a bloody fortune to reelect them. It's a bleak cartoon I've covered here many times.
When, boosted by this largess, these DCCC-backed "Democrats" win, they immediately join the conservative caucuses devoted to turning the Dem party into the Repub party and spend their stint in office opposing Dem policies and teaming with Repubs to pass some of that party's worst legislation.
These endorsements mean that the DCCC, which represents the current weak, feckless congressional "leadership" that spent the last year laying down for Trump, will be showering money on these anointed candidates and directing a fortune in donor money their way.
A couple of weeks ago, the "Democratic leadership" and its campaign arm, the DCCC, picked a dozen conservative "Democratic" candidates around the U.S. to support, most involved in active primary races, some with as many as 5 or 6 Democratic opponents.
www.axios.com/2026/02/26/d...
Is it the job of voters in a congressional district to select the Dem nominee they wish to represent them or is it the job of the "Democratic leadership" in congress to interfere in active local primaries and dictate that "choice"?
Meanwhile, in the real world, the estimates of Sanders voters who went on to vote for Clinton in the general range from a hair under 75% to 86%--overwhelming, by every measure. Clinton, not Sanders' voters, was always the problem (and why we ended up with Trump).
Rodney Barnett of the Bloody Pit podcast is among BLACK DRAGONS' admirers (if that's the right word). He's just done an appreciation of it with guest David Annandale, which is why I had it on the brain today. Definitely worth a listen, if one is interested:
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It's also... fascinating. Lugosi, of course, is always a trip. There's always some amusing incongruity to confound one, always some nutty damn thing happening, and it moves rapidly. A viewer finds that he can't make heads or tails of it but, at the same time, can't take his eyes off it.
The finished film looks like it was fused together from the work of half a dozen writers who never met. Plastic surgery-fu, mind control, a LOT of murders, inexplicable teleportation powers, characters who seem to be rebooted from scene to scene with no memory of their previous selves.
A Poverty Row quickie, BLACK DRAGONS was developed as a Bela Lugosi horror movie but in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, "Jungle Sam" Katzman and the Monogram gang decided to try to rework it into a movie about a Japanese plot against the U.S.. Those two approaches, well, didn't really gel.
William Nigh's BLACK DRAGONS (1942), which turned 84 a few days ago, may hold the distinction of being the most incomprehensible movie ever to emerge from Golden Age Hollywood.
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Sanders has been the most popular active politician in the U.S. for most of the last decade, while Clinton's numbers have remained sub-Trump. Even as bad as Trump has gotten in his 2 regimes and as much as people have hated him, Americans dislike Clinton even more.
The debates and their schedule were supposed to be done in negotiation with the Dem campaigns; in practice, DNC chair DWS just did whatever Clinton said, with no input from anyone else. The other candidate requests re:debates were entirely ignored.
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We have the paper-trail on 2016. Clinton's orders to the DNC were that debates were to start as late as possible and be structured in such a way as to reduce the visibility of both Clinton and her opponents.
There had been 9 Dem debates (also multiple candidate forums) before October that season--the same number of debates that were allowed, in total, in all of the 2016 cycle.
Orloff and the Invisible Man. 1970. Fake Franco from Chevalier. Orloff creates an invisible ape man in an admirably awful Eurotrash treat.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Directed by Don Siegel
A prime cut of sci-fi, and--vaguely related--I'll go ahead and throw in a recommendation for ROADRACERSS, which was an early (and almost forgotten) Robert Rodriguez movie set in the same period and repeatedly referencing INVASION (Kevin McCarthy has a pair of amusing cameos in it).
His position is ludicrous and he knows it, just as do the others who participated in that exchange and took the same position as he.
