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Biden hasn't even started his campaign yet.  Trump has been running full bore just to pull even in the polls.

If Haley was smart, she'd refuse any running mate offer from Trump.  There's no upside to it.  If he lost the race her political career would be over.  If he won she'd be in an impotent job but still tainted by whatever nonsense he does.  Also, Trump's followers tried to kill his last VP.  The next one might not be so lucky.

The Last Jedi is great.  I'd rate it slightly ahead of The Empire Strikes Back as the second best film in the franchise.  Rise of Skywalker is a disaster largely because it tries to undo that film (and Return Of The Jedi) rather than try to further break out of the creative rut symbolized by The Force Awakens.

War never ends.  It's Star Wars, plural, because it goes right from one to the next one.  They blow you up today, you blow them up tomorrow.

A substantial chunk of the Democratic base wants something done about the border.  Greg Abbott calling the bluff of the "sanctuary" cities that are thousands of miles from the border with his busing has done a lot to turn the tide on the issue.

As for Giuliani, sure he'll still owe them their judgement but under bankruptcy he'll always be able to claim he doesn't have the money and won't face any further penalty for non-payment.

Leaving aside that primaries ought to be purely internal party affairs and not funded, administrated, or adjudicated by state or local governments...I agree that a conviction should be required to revoke ballot status on those grounds.

As for a state jailing a sitting president, that's a thornier issue.  Being president doesn't grant immunity to state laws.  I don't think it will come to that, however.

I agree that the Democrats have gotten lost in the weeds with their focus on identity politics.  Many of the people who are sympathetic don't care that much.  They might agree with the Dems but not enough to make it part of their voting decision rule over things that affect them directly.

The president under the Articles of Confederation wasn't like the president we know today.  It was more akin to the president pro tempore of the senate, someone who presides but has very limited powers.

It's been a long time since the Kennedy clan was relevant nationally.  He'll pull less than 100k votes and nobody will remember he ran as anything but a joke.  Kind of like Kanye West last election.

I try not to stress too much about canon and continuity.  Think of the Enterprise crew in the same way you think of the Knights of the Round Table.  Lots of different people can lots of different stories with these characters in this world.  Maybe the details will sometimes conflict but as long as Kirk is charismatic, Spock is logical, McCoy is emotional, and so on it will fit in the mythology.

I got a Mill Creek collection of "50 Classic Musicals" from a bargain bin for 99 cents.  It's got a mashup picture of Fred Astaire and Lena Horne on the cover.  It's as advertised, give or take the "classic" part.  There are 50 movies, they're all musicals, and there are some staring both Astaire and Horne (not together).  The 50 films are packed onto 12 discs, front and back with two or three per side.  Some of the films are not bad, one of the Astaire films is "Royal Wedding" where he does the dancing on the walls and ceiling, but they're all terrible transfers and heavily compressed.

Science fiction set in a human future will always have that problem.  Set it too far in the future and you risk real world technology overtaking your supposedly advanced gear, to say nothing of things like language remaining the same hundreds or thousands of years in the future.  If it's not far enough in the future and it can quickly become alien as the real world develops differently.  That's without even addressing problems of zeerust and the like.

I would think teaching an AI to do rewrites according to some executives' notes would be difficult, but it's standard for pretty much everything produced.

Get it on DVD if you want to keep it.  Otherwise you're at the whim of whatever streaming service.

He could request an advisory opinion, but it's no guarantee of what will happen if/when they hear full arguments

We go through this nonsense every time the debt ceiling has to be raised.  You might recall a few years ago a senator from Illinois said "Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."  He went on to a job with far more control over spending but did nothing to slow it down.

Even if Trump is convicted the next Republican president will pardon him.

There is zero chance of him receiving any meaningful penalty.

That's because all the alternate reality stuff only exists in Evelyn's mind.

She's under so much pressure from her boring business, failing marriage, ailing father, mopey gay daughter, and the tax audit that she has a mental breakdown and her creative mind comes up with scenario after scenario of trying to make it better.  Deirdre says one of Evelyn's job is "novelist" and that's the one job mentioned we don't see in any of the alternate timelines because that's the basis of her creating all the rest in her head.  That's why there are no repercussions from all the incursions into the prime universe, none of it actually happened.

The film is fascinating in the way it shifts tone when it goes from part one to part two and again at part three.  Movies rarely surprise me anymore, but this one did.

Trump was a symptom of the Obama backlash.  Having a black president deeply angered many people and Trump rode that wave better than the competition.

When they did encounter a world with anti-grav technology, in Season's Greedings, Quinn displayed no interest in it

Sliders will be back.  I'm less convinced that Quinn, Wade, Rembrandt and Arturo will return.

I like the one on the right

The streaming services are turning to ad based models.  Netflix debuted their ad-supported plan this week.  They can't turn a profit on subscriptions alone.

I got boosted Tuesday and I still feel terrible.  Previous shots didn't hit like this one.

Her husband died of bone cancer.  He went from healthy to gone very quickly.  She took a couple of years off of work to cope with it all and help her then seven year old daughter do the same.  The book is mostly about that time in her life (roughly 2012-2014).  It's a very uplifting and positive book.  Highly recommended.

The first season is coming to Netflix this weekend

That seems to be a pattern for 10:00 shows.  Big Sky on ABC isn't doing great live but when +3 streaming is added it's doing very well.

I don't recall how I first discovered Sliders.  It was during season one but after the pilot.