Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday

Now this. THIS is an interview. A lot of fun ideas, stealing props, and just good natured nonsense.

I wish the actors were cleared to reveal little things… otherwise these interviews are just barely interactive NDAs.

Cool.

Do Facebook next.

They are doing Facebook next, right?

Right?

I mean, it's not anything special to presidency. With concerts, it's the conductor that gets the praise… with companies, it's CEOs, with sports it's usually coaches.

We're not good in general at remembering the individuals, let alone acknowledging them and their cog in the machine. A flaw to be sure, but a universal one.

That said, I certainly agree with the sentiment, the wrong people do get the praise and blame for those under their authority.

Morgan Stanley sees two potential outcomes for housing prices next year.

One, if mortgage rates slide from their peak this year, the housing market could see demand ramp up, pushing prices up another 5% in 2024.

On the other hand, if mortgage rates remain high and the U.S. enters a recession, that will scare off homebuyers and home prices will recede more.

So effectively, either way, they will remain out of reach.

This.

It is easy, and justified to blame Trump for being anti-vax to have gotten as mainstream as it has…

… but that was only able to gain traction in the first place because people are being offered the choice between healing and going broke.

At some level, conscious or not, this is the masses rebelling against a system that has actively harmed them.

Unfortunately, the outlet for this rebellion actively harms them and is decidedly not in their best interests. It’s going to take at least a generation to rebuild that trust, and our medical system is going to fight tooth and nail to keep that trust ruined in the name of maximum profits,

And more importantly, Boothby.

The unfortunate reality is that a not insignificant portion of US voters conflate modern Israel with biblical Israel.

Any stance other than full support of anything Israel does will stick Biden with the Right version version of being racist: an antisemite—and getting that label is enough to get apathetic right leaning voters to go to the polls.

Trump played the Israel card all the time and his base loved him so much for it that they would plug their ears whenever his crimes came to light.

Biden has the unenviable position where if he shows any signs of disapproval of Israel’s actions, he risks another Trump presidency. (Which is absolutely insane considering the whole insurrection thing.)

I really like the on-going gag that Starfleet/The Federation is actually as idealistic as it attests to be. It would be far too easy to leave Daystrom as Star Trek's version of Arkham Asylum. But while the methods of rehabilitation may have been played for laughs, letting Peanut Hamper, Agimus, and Tyrannikillicus walk the path to re-enter society was honestly really appreciated.

If this has been DS9, Picard, or Discovery… I probably would've expected an Arkham Asylum angle… where the inmates are all in varying stages of vowing revenge. And, it's easy to imagine the more Megalomaniacal inmmates may indeed be as such… I still appreciate that Daystrom's shown in the light that they can be reformed.

An odd number of Binars… and we find the missing pair operating a bridge console at the time of the attack.

Certainly fits the profile of the other acts of treachery followed immediately by betrayal.

I have to admit, with the revelation that the ships are all being stolen with fake debris left behind… I’m at a loss as to what the endgame is.

• I seriously doubt they’re being salvaged for parts. Lower Decks has already done that with the Pakleds.

• The ships don’t really fit a profile. We have the huge vertical warbird to the tiny Orion vessel. The militant Bird of Prey to the sciency Binars.

• Only the Orion and Ferengi vessels could be argued as sharing a mission—with their sorting of random weapons. But even if the ship is after weapons, there are better targets.

• Taking the crews prisoner seems impractical.

Really, the only things the ships all have in common is a lower decker that is vindictive and gullible enough to commit treachery. But that’s not an objective, that’s a means to an end.

The rabbit leaves only bones, and Moopsy just wants bones.

I feel like they could form a kind of symbiotic relationship.