Lockdown lifers and pod-worshipping libs are already squirming out of the walls to tell us we will have to live lockdown style forever:

That was inevitable of course. Expect the drumbeat to get much louder. Of course, none of what they advocate is really necessary — we have the technology to live better, do better, be better. But it’s so much more appealing to many to take the diminished ascetic path, because to them penurious repentance feels like justice.

Mastercard Lays Down New Rules For Streaming Sites That Require Them To Review Content Before Publication.

Doesn’t this pretty much kill all streaming, like Twitch et al. as well? Especially if Visa follows along. Of course in reality, though, big businesses won’t be affected by this. After all this sort of action is designed to kill small operators. That’s the whole purpose and it will work.

I agree, Charlize Theron was very good indeed in The Devil’s Advocate.

Left to her own devices in big, scary Manhattan, a neglected Theron begins to succumb to demonic visions. As her character spirals into madness and desperation, the actress conjures a tempest of raw emotion completely out of sync with the otherwise tongue-in-cheek nature of the proceedings

She redeemed the movie for me and made me watch parts of it twice (uh, specifically, the parts with her in it). I’d already seen her in 2 Days in the Valley, but at the time — because I was younger and shallower — I wrote her off as too pretty to be serious. (Yeah, that’s the kind of stupid shit I thought then).

Anyway, she was almost unrecognizable between the two films. 2 Days in the Valley:

Devil’s Advocate:

Because of all those campground super spreader events? Please, let’s limit govt solutions to actual problems. @zeynep https://t.co/hTqLkeExRG

— Greg Bryson, MD, FRCPC (@glbryson) April 16, 2021

Pure dumbassery knows no bounds.