Rand McRanderson

Have Mojo, Will Travel. Thoughts on tv, movies, books, music, philosophy and life by a crazy son of a gun.

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Christ has risen!

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@DougWahl1 I mean he is in recovery after major surgery and has curtailed some of his traditional duties, honestly unless I hear explicitly this is a snub, I am inclined to think of it in terms of that, not a Vance fan btw

[Rand McRanderson @therandshow]

Christ has risen!

[Rand McRanderson @therandshow]

Christ has risen!

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@Joshstrangehill I've been convinced for over a decade that Royce McCutcheon was some semi-famous businessman who I just happened never to hear about before

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30 Rock | Therapy, Jack Style (Episode Highlight) https://t.co/BQOMEGrlpp via @YouTube - just damn, a supremely funny 2 and a half minutes

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@BretDevereaux Is there any example of a modern successful humane siege? I'm not saying that it is necessarily possible, after all there are historic methods of attack such as poisoning water supplies that we have judged as always inhumane, but I'm curious if people have looked at this

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People never realize, the way to beat a time loop is to find an alternative way for it to be satisfied other than the way you’re afraid of

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Rewatching #Justified , noticed in S1E8 Boyd says "I hope I can bring you a modicum of peace", I always thought it was an odd way to end Boyd's story in the finale, him believing the lie of Ava's death, but in doing so he brings Raylan a modicum of peace

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Sometimes I'm like let's do a simple thing that will make me happier and more productive, and then I'm like nah, and then I'm like maybe the voice saying nah isn't the part of my brain I should be listening to

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I have become staggeringly ignorant of the pop music scene, I never was actively engaged but I considered myself someone with a general sense of popular music. But as interests that have fallen by the wayside and might be retaken go, I do have quite a few before getting to pop

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The most dangerous way to deal with China is to pressure countries into exclusive camps. This will ignite zero-sum geopolitical thinking that ends up encouraging great powers to undermine the sovereignty of small powers

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Part of the problem with education research is an engaging, energetic, and enthusiastic teacher covers over a lot of teaching mistakes. Which is fine in terms of teacher effectiveness, however in terms of learning what is good teaching and what is bad teaching it clouds matters

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A rough way to measure mass oppression is to look at whether refugees are flowing out to en mass neighboring countries with similar or worse economic situations, of course this becomes blurry when the mass oppression is accompanied by economic incompetence

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In the end, it's living that gets you killed

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Russia invited into the EU post-war could give Russia a way of regaining prestige without military build-up, since diplomatically it could make Russia a heavy-weight within the union, and therefore a major player in the world without relying on military strength

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I think one thing that helped cement peace after WWII was economic and political integration between France and Germany, given that example, I think the best thing post-war for Russia is to give Russia a path to entering the EU (Of course, not ahead of Ukraine)

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There's a certain Time Traveler's wife aspect to parenting, through your life you know many of the pains and struggles of your children, but you for many of those struggles you are unable to change the course of things, you can only watch as life unfolds in its horror and glory

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Speaking as a lover of history, war I think is like vomit, if you can hold it in and let the crisis pass that is for the best, but if you must vomit, let it all out or else you'll just make yourself more sick

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Christ has risen!