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I’m genuinely curious how many have looked into the bands on their shirts. Most of the ones I’ve seen represent some genuinely good stuff.

At least the kid was listening to the music. I’ve lost count of the number of kids walking around in “Cure,” “Def Leppard,” “Poison,” etc. shirts who have NFC about the band. They just think the shirt looks cool. Which… of course it is, but look it up on YouTube or something, FFS!

Soon: DHS Deploys All of ICE to Johnson County Iowa. Governor to Hold Welcome Party.

Never mind then. The bots were the draw in the original. That and, of course, the acting!

Somehow I forgot about that one. I don’t think I ever saw it.

Good definitely is subjective. I have Robot Jox in my library and it won’t be deleted until I’ve left this mortal coil.

My 5th grade teacher specifically said she wouldn’t allow them in the class. She told parents she wanted us to have a plain blue binder (the one that was covered in blue fabric), some dividers and paper. She then proceeded to teach us something no there before or after spent time on: how to properly organize our work. You were awesome, Dr. Cross!

I think it illustrates why we teach history, and why we should always teach it as truthfully as possible. He wrote some genuinely good, arguably timeless, children’s books, and he was a human being who held some viewpoints that haven’t aged well. I don’t think it makes him a particularly bad person. Just a normal complex one. Besides, when we cancel people for effectively being a normal person of 50, 60, 70, 100, etc. years ago, it feeds the bullshit conservative message of a woke agenda. We should be smart enough to understand that people are capable of doing good and bad things.

Adding in - if you watch the first season of the Amazon show, it’s pretty accurate to the books. The second season went off the rails a bit, but the recent season was alright (other than Anthony Michael Hall being a pretty one dimensional actor).

If that’s the reason why, I would skip it. They don’t spend a lot of time on it. Plus, in the early books there’s some unnecessary cringe parts where they felt the need to shoehorn “love interest” into the story. In general, they’re decent “boss battle” books. Easy reads that aren’t going to make you think. Beach reads for guys, I guess.

I read all the Jack Reacher books a couple years ago, and one of the fascinating things about the character is his aversion to owning things. In some of the books, he talks about it a little and it’s an interesting insight to that worldview. I think they kind of stopped talking about it in newer books, and the character has gotten kind of less interesting because of it. At one point, he inherits a house, and that seems to become a minor trauma for him!

This sounds like a song lyric.