Old Man

Maybe it will put the fires out.

Right when it looked like they were turning it around, too.

Aquaman is the most awesome character in this film. I'm not sure how to interpret that.

There are other trope aspects to magic besides mystery, although that is one of them. Unpredictability and consequences are two others that I can think of off the top of my head. The former is not that magic is mysterious, necessarily, but that we don't know exactly what it will do when invoked. The latter is that using magic either costs the caster something serious, or has other far reaching consequences. Gandalf was reluctant to use magic for fear of giving away his position to bad guys who might be attuned to that sort of thing; Ogion refused to magic away a rainstorm for fear of not knowing how it would affect the weather elsewhere. There is some overlap between these and mysteriousness but this way we can recapture some of the feel of magic without having to hide the mechanics from the players. For the characters, of course, who can't see the game system, it's probably still incomprehensible how a wizard can incinerate an orc army just by saying something weird and wiggling his fingers. Just like IT or auto mechanics.

Interlude:

Putin is using the crabs-in-a-bucket strategy--pull everyone else down to your level. Sowing chaos in Western democracies gives him the freedom to invade neighboring countries and project influence elsewhere. He already won in the U.S. when he bought Trump in exchange for election assistance and a piece of Rosneft. Now the State Department is crippled, the rest of the federal government is in total disarray, and Trump is doing his best to wreck U.S. economic influence as well. Why not replicate this winning strategy in France?

The Republicare debacle does seem to be taking attention away from the Russia investigations, though.

It appears that the Obamacare repeal is off, as the GOP was short by about fifty votes (which is an awful lot). A visibly angry Paul Ryan gave a press conference to announce that they're giving up for now and will instead break Obamacare from within like they're doing with the EPA and Department of Education.

So Trump is demanding an Obamacare repeal vote today, after a few days of delays while the GOP tried to take out mandatory coverages for pregnancy, maternity, mental health, and emergency services. That way, even if the insurance companies are forced to cover you despite your preexisting conditions, they don't have to cover anything you have that might actually be expensive to treat. Incredibly, even this was not enough to assure passage by the GOP caucus, many of whom want a straight Obamacare repeal despite the casualties it will inflict among their constituents. Male GOP members managed to draw even more attention to this by making jokes about their access to mammograms and saying that single moms should have gotten married if they wanted health insurance.

There could be other interpretations...

Anyone care to guess what Chad's porn viewing history will cost?

Glad to see today's slaves are buying the propaganda.

Will you change my grade to an A if I sleep with you?

Four civilians slain plus one scumbag.

No, there are better code names. "Twitler" and "Hair Furor" are my faves.

Not for Shou-Lao.

Nothing like a total network outage to liven up your workday.

Inky has escaped

They will never say it. Surveys show that Trump voters believe the economy improved sharply after Trump's election. (In some cases even before he took office.) When we lose our healthcare it will be because Obamacare was so flawed. When we still can't get good manufacturing jobs it will be because of those obstructionist Dems in congress. If anyone does say it it will be immediately followed by "but Hillary would have been worse."

Lol no. Trump's approval rating reached 37% over the weekend. Not even 100 days in. I wonder if any modern president managed to even approach that.

Far worse than what we do in the U.S. apparently.

Why, are you really Jeff #4?

If we have all three, can we build hotels on them?

If we say yes, will he actually change his handle here?