Hope they can get Sean Penn to portray him in the movie that Hollywood is sure to make about this insane episode in American life.

Sean Penn won the 2026 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2025 film One Battle After Another.

He played a paranoid, "alt-right" military officer, described as a stiff, absurd, and menacing antagonist in the thriller, which is based on Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.

If you haven't seen Battle After Battle it's well worth your time.

And it's very timely.

"One Battle After Another"

I guess I should at least get the title right.

BTW: What do you think about the food and rationing problems with the ACG in the Middle East?
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No movies? Man ya'll are tough on yourselves!

As for the ME?

"Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen."

Food can be used as a weapon.

"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy"

This just highlights the vulnerability of modern "just-in-time" supply chains. If logistics fail desperation can lead to immediate social unrest.

The food shortages will only increase tensions in the region as it increases the pressure on the poor and the refuges to find food.

It is just kicking up the can down the road.

Another mess for Dems to try and (probably not) clean up after this "battle" is over.

I watched so many films in my halycon days that I provide leads for folks today on cult classics or hidden gems.

Books lead me to good movies and movies lead me to good books.

Speaking of "cult classics" and hidden gems I found one while studying Egyptology. The professor recommended it. (Egyptology.. for when you want to forget the civilization as is and want to see it as it once was 5000 years-ago as it arrived on the scene in all its glory).

Putting in a plug for movies. Maybe you remember the 1963 movie Cleopatra?

It's a masterpiece and is actually historically accurate! (Mostly).
Well worth your time.

The movie did not do so well in its own time because it was so elaborate and costly they could not recoup the costs. The scenes were awesome productions reminiscent of the Ten Commandments and Ben Hur and the arrival of Cleopatra in Rome was completely over the top and not to be missed!

But it's seemingly exactly what the most beautiful and most powerful queen in history would do. It's an incredible story. A Greek tragedy at its finest and most real.

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I don't think you'll regret it.

Leonardo DiCaprio plays me in the movie. :)