Rufus Algonquin

Explicit atheist. Open minded on most other matters. 🧐

[Thomas Doherty @TomDohertyfilm]

RIP film critic Gene Shalit, King of the glib one-liners. On singer Glen Campbell in TRUE GRIT (1969): “Glen Campbell has never acted in films before, and his record is still clean.”

[Phetru | The Mini Edit Guy @Phetru]

JALEN BRUNSON

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

i read this and immediately crumbled into dust like Donovan at the end of LAST CRUSADE.

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Rufus Algonquin @exile1965]

@BoldenSkip Say your pronouns!

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

the spirit is appreciated, but best to take a seat on this one

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The only people who could mitigate tensions between Fred G. Sanford and Aunt Esther were Ray Charles and Orson Welles.

[Mike David @mikemovies]

SAM PECKINPAH:

[on which film directors have clout]

"Kurosawa has it. Fellini. Bergman. But no American has it. Some, like Kubrick and Nichols, think they do, but they don't. It's not just a question of what happens to you during shooting and editing: it's what they do to you once the film is entirely out of your hands.

[John] Huston once almost had total control, but he blew it on The Red Badge of Courage, when he walked away from the cutting of the picture. I'm a great admirer of his, anyway. Every picture of Huston's has tried not only to tell a story but to make some kind of statement. The perfect films of this kind are The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I wish I could make a film that good. Compared with John Huston, I'm still in seventh grade-but I'm moving up."

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Since the WSJ editorial board mentioned my earlier post about Justice Alito’s son, I’m happy to reply. Pointing out that his son works for an agency whose interests may come before the Supreme Court is not harassment. It is basic transparency.

The federal recusal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), requires a judge or justice to step aside from any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That standard is about public confidence in the courts. It does not require proof of actual bias.

Whether a particular case would require recusal depends on the specific facts, including the nature of the case and the family member’s role. Reasonable people can disagree about where that line should be drawn. But the existence of the relationship itself is a legitimate subject of public discussion.

If the risk of a 4-4 tie were enough to keep a Justice on a case, no Justice would ever recuse from anything, since every recusal raises that same possibility. The recusal statute already weighs that cost and still commands stepping aside when impartiality is reasonably in question.

The public has every right to know about potential conflicts and to debate whether recusal is appropriate. Transparency is not a threat to judicial independence. It is one of the ways judicial independence maintains public trust.
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[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it’s total embarrassment.
The man you invested your faith in isn’t a savior at all, just an empty act stitched together with arrogance, noise, and relentless self-promotion.
All that confidence, all those grand promises, all the swagger,it collapses into something painfully small the moment it’s tested against reality.

There’s no hidden genius, no bold disruptor underneath it all.
Just a loud, impulsive figure flailing through responsibilities he clearly wasn’t equipped to handle, drowning incompetence in a flood of bluster.

In the end, what once looked like strength turns out to be nothing more than cheap theatrics.
Not leadership,just a gaudy performance.

A caricature.
A spectacle.

And the real sting isn’t that it was absurd,it’s realizing how long it took to admit you were taken in by all his bullshit....

[Polly Sigh @dcpoll]

I’m constantly amazed at how Republicans keep pretending that this isn’t the dumbest motherfucker who ever lived.

[Enza Altieri @EnzaAltieri]

New York subway, 1971
Steve Schapiro

[Rufus Algonquin @exile1965]

@ThatEricAlper

[It’s a Democracy and a Republic Dummy @DumboGOP]

@MikeGinsberg6 @bariweiss This is the dumbest statement ever uttered, Donald Trump was a democrat… he is fucking Maga. You act as if someone’s history insulates them from their present day actions. It’s really juvenile.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

The problem is that Bari basically renounced those views in an overt suck-up to MAGA.
Sorry, but anyone who recants an overly negative view of Trump AFTER January 2021 is either a moron or a hack. And Bari Weiss is not a moron.

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[Rufus Algonquin @exile1965]

@harryhew Fogerty did an amazing amount of memorable stuff in a very compressed time frame, ‘68-‘’72 which probably works against him. I guess the knock would be he didn’t sustain it. He gets my vote though.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

As artificial intelligence continues to change the world in ways most of us can scarcely even understand, I’d like to point out I grew up thinking this was the pinnacle of human technological achievement.

[Rufus Algonquin @exile1965]

@Super70sSports Where the fuck is 4K?

[Rufus Algonquin @exile1965]

@Super70sSports Oh that Barney Rubble, what an actor.