On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
Even as the behemoth, seemingly infinite, does little more than shift it's immense bulk minutely, uncountable numbers of lives are crushed out of existence...


From the new movie "Rampage" . . . 

Big Bad Male Corporate Executive: "Who's this guy who's going to solve our problem?"
Bigger Bad Female Corporate Executive: "Remember that private military contractor we acquired in a merger a while back? The one you called 'Killers-R-Us?'"
BBMCE: "Yeah?"
BBFCE: "He's the 'Us.'"

BTW, that movie disturbed me a bit. A LOT of mook operatives and soldiers (plus at least a few innocent bystanders) are very messily killed, yet even at the very end of the movie Our Heroes only mention the number of lives saved. Twice during the movie, one of said Heroes refers to all three of them as "a**holes" with the audience expected to laugh at this joke (which they dutifully do). But actually he's just telling the truth.

--
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester (fictional monster hunter portrayed by Jensen Ackles)
"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.