“I can’t breathe. My throat is just a mess. My chest is burning up, and now my lungs are in distress. Should we blame the imbeciles ignoring climate change? Oh, who to blame for making the skies so strange?” From Blame Canada, written by Marc Shaiman – revised 2023 version. 

This could turn into a rant about the gutless pearl-clutchers who pseudonymously blather about how the world is going to hell just because their favorite cause-of-the-moment got sidetracked… and it still might. I can’t believe there are still word-spewers out there who want Zack Snyder to finish doing what Doctor Frederic Wertham could not.

But they aren’t the only ones losing their shit about Warner Bros, the company that has owned DC Comics since August 1967, being bought by Netflix. The bidding came down to three companies. The far-right wing Skydance, having just swallowed Paramount, submitted at least three bids for the doomed Warner Bros Discovery enchilada so they could take CNN over and prove to the world that they, too, could out-NewsNation the liars at Fox News. Each of their bids was rejected for being too low; evidently there are financial limits to the Ellison family’s political beliefs. The other two bidders, Comcast and Netflix, only wanted the Warner Bros part of the company. Continue reading “Brainiac On Banjo: Take Netflix For The Win” →