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Jun 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It pains me to say this: If #Lightyear is Andy’s Star Wars, what an impoverished childhood Andy had.
decentfilms.com/articles/light…
When I say it pains me, this is what I mean: I was a new father when Toy Story debuted, so Toy Story wasn’t my Star Wars (Star Wars was my Star Wars). But I had the great privilege of raising my children (most of them, most of the way) in the now-gone era of Pixar greatness.
The early Pixar greats up to Finding Nemo my kids discovered on home video. But our whole family went to the theater for The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, TS3. We kept going for Brave, Monsters U, Inside Out, even Good Dinosaur (that was the one that broke us). TS4 too.
*Many* of these Pixars were my kids’ Star Wars (and/or their E.T., etc.)! Other US studios were doing good work too: Iron Giant, Lilo & Stitch, Ice Age, Cloudy with Meatballs, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, Coraline, Despicable Me…not to mention Aardman, Ghibli, etc…
I don’t know that there’s ever been a better era for animation, certainly for family audiences, than the late 1990s to the early 2010s. And it’s not like those movies are gone! But it’s crushing that Pixar, and now even Toy Story, is no longer a reason to go to the theater.
And it’s not just Pixar. The era is over. That hurts.

Last animated movie that my whole family went to the theater to see: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Other than the next Spider-Verse movie, I have no idea what will be the next animated movie to bring us to theaters.

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Jun 16
Things that should not have to be said:

Quipping about someone being “on suicide watch” as a burn after an alleged humiliation or setback is not okay.
You don’t know what they’ve been through. What you intend (or rationalize) as a burn could be something they—or people close to them—have struggled with. They could have lost loved ones to suicide. Even if they haven’t, contemptuous indifference to the possibility is horrifying.
We’ve all heard the adage “Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about.” We also know that we’re never going to be kind all the time to everyone. People can be rotten. People can deserve hard words, including mockery and ridicule. But there are limits.
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Nov 27, 2021
Religion and science thread: Nobody asked, but as some peeps are talking about human origins, original sin, and Adam and Eve, I want to offer a clarification on the two very different ways the terms “monogenism” and “polygenism” are used in two related but distinct discussions.
“Polygenism” or “polygenesis” originally referred to the now-discredited theory, historically favored by 19th-century advocates of quasi-scientific racism, that “humanity” is made up of separate, distinct “races” descended from distinct nonhuman ancestral groups.
The scientific theory favored today is that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa, and that all varieties of humanity in their racial and ethnic diversity share this common origin (single origin or genesis, hence “monogenism”).
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Mar 5, 2021
Earlier this week my lady Suzanne had to talk on the phone to a COVID precautions skeptic who was big on “not living in fear.” She wound up shouting in frustration at her.
Also this week two of my kids served a funeral for a man who died of COVID.

He was in his 40s. He left a widow and three children.
I don’t know if he was afraid to die. What I know is that his children will grow up without a father. His wife won’t grow old with the husband of her youth. It will be a struggle to raise those children without his help or support.

Is that something to fear? Yes. Yes it is.
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Aug 31, 2020
So COVID-skeptical conservatives are abuzz about the CDC finding that nearly all COVID deaths involved co-morbidities, with only 6% of deaths ascribed to COVID alone. So COVID is no big deal, right?

The first thing to note is that “co-morbidities” ≠ “preexisting conditions.”
Many people who died because of COVID were vulnerable, yes, whether because of age or conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure.

Many also developed serious co-morbidities—like pneumonia—because they got COVID. That’s what viruses do.
Second, official causes of death aside, the bottom line is that, since March, over 200,000 people have died who, going by death rates in recent years, ought to be alive.

For the vast majority of them, COVID was the difference between life and death.
sciencealert.com/2020-has-kille…
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Jul 2, 2020
To people who don’t understand why people are saying the official Trump 2020 “America First” T-shirt is a Nazi-inspired design—or who say things like “It looks like the Marines logo”—you aren’t paying attention. I’ll explain.
Note that the eagle’s head in the Trump and Nazi logos faces its left (our right). The Nazi logo, called a Parteiadler, is almost identical to a prior German icon, the Reichsadler, except the German Reichsadler looked to its right (our left) and the Nazi Parteiadler to its left.
In the Great Seal of the United States, in the presidential seal, and in seals of various military forces and government bodies, the eagle always faces its right (our left).
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Apr 9, 2020
Every year during the Pascal Triduum my family watches #TheMiracleMaker in three unequal installments. This year I think I’ll live-tweet our viewing.
decentfilms.com/articles/must-…
The title was suggested by Mel Gibson when Icon picked up distribution. The working title, “In My Father’s House,” was a double allusion to the finding in the Temple and Jesus’ saying about preparing a place for us. I liked the original title better.
Love the opening shot of Sepphoris and the premise that Jesus worked there (the closest city to Nazareth, a tiny village where there wouldn’t have been much work).
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