Just finished seeing it.

Cumberpatch does not have a tan, but he does nail the coldness and brutality of Khan better.  His Khan does not swagger, and I find that refreshing.

That's my specific comment.

My general comment on the film is this

Yowza!  Boo Yah!

As you can see, I clearly had reservations walking out out of the theater.

I prefer to spend $30 up front on the tie chain.  It works.

MaggiMc:

I was at the Meet & Greet portion of an awards dinner (if we'd stayed for the dinner instead of hitting the LIE we would have had dinner instead of spending an extra hour or more in stop & go traffic!), where i met what I suspect is a very successful real estate agent.

I could tell by the cut of his suit, and by the fact that he was wearing a properly tied bow tie.

And if this is about your budget, buy them one of these ... it will lengthen the life of all of their ties by keeping them out of the soup or coffee:

Mind you, that was not my graduation present, but it is what I would buy for an 18-year old.  I'd at least buy them a good Sport Jacket, something in Plaid or Tweed.

And this being New York, I would as soon buy them a Taxi Medallion than send them to either Columbia or NYU or Harvard or Princeton.  You get a better education driving that cab, you can rent out the Medallion, and sell it at a profit that houses used to guarantee - and buy that house.

A 2-Piece Suit, a Sports Jacket, 2 pairs of Dress Pants that will go with anything, 3 or more Good Dress Shirts, 2 Good Silk Ties, a pair of Black Oxford Dress Shoes, 4 pairs of Over-The-Calf Black or Dark Blue Dress Socks - or some part of that ensemble, to make certain the graduate has the attire of a successful job applicant.

Oh yes, a booklet with diagrams on how to tie a necktie, including the Full Windsor Knot and a Bowtie (that way they don't have to wear a clip on with the rented tux).

And his powers are easily limited ... by keeping that one extra bean out of the 239 Bean Stew.

[I could find no image of the Howard Stern superhero Fartman that would not just plain gross people out, never mind be a CoC Violation ... so this (and a knife) ...

Oops!  Color me embarrassed!  Still, as you've confirmed, my main point is worth standing by.

Foxman:

Do you love JoJo?  Does the thought of bringing a child into the world with her, raising that child, teaching that child the difference between right and wrong, how to be a mature and reponsible adult human being excite you?  Fill you with joy and anticipation as much as it does with trepidation?

Then marry her.

If you are certain that you do not want to be the father of this child, to fulfill all the awesome (in all the senses of the word, including the trembling before the mountain of responsibilities you would be undertaking) obligations of fatherhood ...

... let her go now.  Pay your child support, until and even after she finds a man willing to take up that role.  Your child deserves a father.  Be that father, or step aside and let someone else be that father.

Basically, VirusCop1, you need a stronger case than this to weaken our defense.

Stop looking for cheap and easy victories.  It cheapens you, and this is not the place to cheapen yourself.

We hold ourselves to a higher standard here at Ricochet.  Give us your A Game, VirusCop1!

Let's start with the source of the story.

The Atlantic is a Democratic & Liberal organ so thoroughly in bed with their side that they are as suspect as Liberals accuse Fox News of being.  There's no shame in taking sides.  But there is shame in pretending that you haven't taken a side, and that you can be objective.

I prefer the British model of journalism.  You know where The Guardian stands.  As opposed to the BBC who pretend they are neutral when they aren't.

Now to Pantoja.  He was disappointed by a study that has been roundly condemned by the organization who published it, who have fired the person who wrote the study up.   It was a mistake made by a politician learning to run a think tank, not a pattern.

As what are the rest of Pantoja's positions?  Was he like Cat Stevens, whose conversion to Radical Islam was long presaged by his music?  In which case, how is this a blow or even a loss to the republican Party.  They will have lost someone who was never really on their side.

I was never much of a Game Show watcher (I did get hooked on One Life ToLive for a rather long stretch back when Karen Witter had her moment in the soap opera sun - to be 30 years old and be so identified with your character that when you leave the show they do not immediately recast the character was soap opera gold, worth upwards of $350K a year back in the day), but have come to appreciate the charms of Pat Sajak of late.

He has a real and gently but no too understated intelligence - the kind that does not really try to hide but feels confident enough in itself to not show off either.

Someone with that kind of intelligence and charm could do well in 2016.  I am not saying that Sajak is the candidate, but someone like him.

Then again, I have heard from Bill Whittle that the 2016 Conservative candidate may well come from an entertainment background.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to the people supposedly on your own side who use real issues for their personal gain.  What Ronald Reagan may have done was to enable a lot of people who knew they were being exploited to act against the people exploiting them.  He did that in part by drawing the fire of those exploiters, and giving people the ability to use the real power of the secret ballot to back him up.

A Conservative willing to do that again might find a lot of people supposed hostile to Conservatives are, when the ballot is secret, are not.

I have met enough Gay men and Lesbian women in a professional capacity (I'm from New York, waddya want!) who simply did their jobs and did them well, and lived their personal lives, keeping them as much out of the workplace (sometimes more, actually) as the straight people.  Over lunch, I learned something surprising.  They do not wish to overturn the world.  They want to live in a world where they can quietly plan their vacation on Fire Island.

So, if it stopped with Same Sex Couples getting the same legal rights as Married Straight Couples (I mean, honestly, survivor benefits? visitation in the hospital?, filing jointly?) I'd be okay with that.

But it doesn't stop with that.  The people I have met are not the activists, some of whom are actively looking to destroy the Churches.

The Silent Majority is larger and more diverse than either side thinks.  the silent majority is far less enthralled by ideology than the progressives think, and more more in agreement with Conservatives than Conservatives, foot often in mouth, think.

Not bad, Foxman, not bad.  Maybe I give the Squeaky Giraffe to you instead.

Hoping this finds you well and in good spirits ...

I found a squeaky giraffe doll on the way from the Hollywood Restaurant on West 16th Street & 6th Avenue to the Union Square Farmer's Market.  Will that do ya?