OPEN THREAD: Party on.
March 29, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Artemis 2.0: A model for really winning the new moon race.
FASTER, PLEASE: Cancer’s “Master Switch” Blocked for Good in Landmark Study.
THE MISSING MEN: “I realized that there is something like a touch of the tragic about many of the lives of the young men on my street in a small town in southwestern Ohio. It’s a homey town in a fast-developing and affluent county, not far from Cincinnati, with a good school district, close to opportunity in many ways. But there’s something quietly amiss, something about the men. I think of them as good men—often sensitive, often kind. But it’s like the train left and they are still here waiting.”
I THINK THEY’RE DRAWING FROM A POISONED POOL: Columbia’s new prez called Congress hearings on antisemitism ‘Capitol Hill nonsense.’
Also a shallow pool: “Claire Shipman, a former CNN White House correspondent married to former Obama Administration press secretary Jay Carney, served as co-chair of the University’s board of trustees before she was appointed Friday night to replace interim school president Katrina Armstrong.”
READER FAVORITE: REDTIGER Dash Cam Front Rear. #CommissionEarned
ANOTHER PIC BY THE INSTAWIFE, WHO WAS ON A REAL NEWSGATHERING BINGE TODAY:
Overcapacity crowd at today’s GOP convention in Knoxville. Lots of enthusiasm! pic.twitter.com/eLbuECHogU
— @instapundit (@instapundit) March 29, 2025
This was the Knox County convention, and former state rep. Martin Daniel was elected county chair. I think that is an excellent choice, and that he’s got the right ideas.
CALM IRRITATED SKIN: First Aid Beauty – KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA. #CommissionEarned
AFFLUENT WHITE FEMALE LIBERALS ARE AWFL: Woman whose MAGA hat meltdown, subway wipeout went viral is an ‘extremely liberal’ luxury-brand specialist. “Testanero has gone off the deep end when it comes to politics, a former colleague claimed. ‘She and I stopped being friends a while ago, as she became extremely liberal and very agitated,’ the one-time coworker told The Post.”
Mentally disturbed women who think they can do anything with impunity are a problem.
AND THEN THERE’S NTSB:
— Neil Christensen (@NeilChristense6) March 28, 2025
BIG SPRING DEAL: 2025 Hardhat Headlamp Rechargeable with Motion Sensing. #CommissionEarned
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Heaven Confirms Resurrected Bodies Of The Saints Will Be In The Style Of Studio Ghibli. “At publishing time, Hell announced it would also be updating the look of their residents, but that they’d be using the animated style of that HBO Velma show instead.”
WELL, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION CALLED UNHAPPY PARENTS DOMESTIC TERRORISTS: UK Police Arrest Parents, Jail Them For Criticizing School Policies.
THOSE POOR RESEARCHERS, DOWN THERE FOR SO LONG: After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in Baltic Sea mud, researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life.
UP IN SMOKE: Instead of Improving Movies, Variety Wants to Allow Pot and Texting in Theaters.
Can you imagine spending $65 for tickets, popcorn, and soda to suffer through three hours in a room filled with the stench of something called the skunk weed (for good reason) and idiots texting? Plus, Variety thinks movie theaters should become pot dispensaries.
“Imagine how much better Barbie or Deadpool & Wolverine would be if you could see it” while smoking a joint, asks Variety rhetorically. “Selling weed could bring fresh revenue and new customers to theaters.”
What?
Both of those movies were monster hits, the top grossers of their respective years. Who in their right mind believes allowing pot smoking and texting in the theater would have improved their box office?
Granted, Variety’s idea is to have exclusive screenings for potheads and texters. Nevertheless, the entire theater will still stink of that crap.
Here’s Variety lobbying for texting: “Although cinephiles might object, if movie theaters want to attract younger audiences who refuse to give up their devices during the two-hour running time of most films, they might need to stop banning phones.”
Meanwhile, the New York Post suggests booze and/or pickleball will do the trick: Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars.
One owner of a smaller Midwest chain isn’t waiting around for the crowds to magically reappear.
“The pandemic made us realize that we need to diversify,” says Bob Bagby, CEO of family-owned B&B Theaters. “We can’t just depend on studios to provide us with what we need to drive our business.”
That means pickleball games and cocktails in the lobby, even bowling — all designed to get people to see the theaters as more than just a place to screen the latest flicks.
People now refer to seeing movies on the big screen as essentially annual events. “Yeah, I saw Oppenheimer that year.” “I watched Top Gun: Maverick in the theater.” “I saw the big Spider-Man multiverse movie Christmastime 2021.” It’s hard to believe that people once went to the movies weekly — and that Hollywood created watchable product to fill that demand instead of hectoring its audiences to have politically correct opinions and utter the latest bespoke pronouns.
Related: A Twitter thread on J.R.R. Tolkien versus Disney concludes:
