All the global plans for the future involve less freedom.

— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) December 19, 2020

Broadly true, alas. Even the “liberal” plans involve significant repeal of freedom. And it’s always, as with Mozilla et al., “for our own good.” The libs are more interested in controlling your thoughts than actions, which is in some ways creepier.

Still, I don’t want to be controlled at all, by any faction.

The @WSJ kept up the "open borders" beat from at least the 1980s through the early aughts. Here's one of the later installments: https://t.co/TQMV5ETs3L

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) December 17, 2020

Ayup. Almost no one seems to remember that the liberals were once mostly against open borders and high levels of immigration and conservatives were heavily in support of this.

Ask anyone now, they’d deny it. But luckily the evidence still persists.

BTW, as the article also mentions, Sierra McCormick is just excellent in The Vast of Night.

As they walk to their jobs one night (a fabulous tracking shot), the loquacious Faye recounts popular magazine articles about radio-controlled cars, vacuum tube transportation, and cell phones in an effort to “razz Everett’s berries.” Her enthusiasm is infectious. This leads into her key scene, a 10-minutes switchboard sequence where she speaks far less.

Sierra, as the best actors do, becomes Faye. The character she brings to life is chirpy but also curious and passionate, sweet yet not naïve, funny and sincere in a tenacious very self-controlled but yet somehow still delicate way. I liked her immensely and wished we as viewers got to spend more time with her. I was actually very angry with the movie at the end because of what happens to Faye.

That switchboard bit the article mentions isn’t one of the flashy show-off setpieces but in its own way is just as impressive because you watch a single person operate a telephone switchboard for 10 minutes. And that’s it. And it’s engrossing and fascinating because Sierra is so damn good and believable and just present as Faye. So many perfect scenes in that film that just would not work without god-class acting.

I would totally watch a movie called Hangin’ With Faye that was just, you know, hangin’ with Faye.

Wowwwwww https://t.co/vkrFIj4YR5

— Milena Rodban (@MilenaRodban) December 16, 2020

Good for him. That’s great. Sometimes, being a huge jerk is justified. If only we had a president that could show any such leadership.

BTW, Tom Cruise and the director, Christoher McQuarrie, personally paid for a private island so the movie could be finished (saving 500+ jobs).

The first ten on today’s playlist: