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[Warning: foul language sprinkled throughout]. I naively thought we were over this Cold War shit back in about 1990 when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union was finally exposed as essentially a paper tiger. But now, added onto a global pandemic, climate change, and general political unrest in our own country and the world, why not throw some good old-fashioned mutually assured destruction into the mix.  I feel terrible for the people in Ukraine, but am also sad for the children and young people of the world who have to live on this absolute shit show of a planet. I am angry that one unbalanced tyrant in Russia is able to wield so much power over the world. The threat of nuclear annihilation and not having any clue what Putin will pull if confronted by NATO make this a tenuous and stressful situation. And on a more personal level, my older son is trying to carve out a life in Germany and now this crazy Russian motherfucker decides to destabilize Europe. (I readily acknowl...

 Netflix's F Is For Family is a television show that never received the appreciation it deserved. It just completed its fifth and final season. For anyone not familiar with it, F Is For Family is (or I should say, was , at this point) an animated show that takes place in the 1970s and focuses on the Murphy family of the fictional Midwestern city of Rustvale. The patriarch of the family, Frank Murphy, is a guy who--as a young man--wanted to be an airline pilot until life got in the way. He returned from the Korean War, got his girlfriend pregnant, married her, and instead of becoming a pilot, settled into the slightly less glamorous job of baggage department manager for Mohican Airways at the Walter L. Rustbelt Memorial Airport. Pretty much living paycheck to paycheck, the often hot-headed Frank and his wiser and generally more level-headed wife Sue struggle to raise their three kids: airhead stoner wannabe rocker Kevin, intelligent daughter Maureen, and awkward younger son Bill. ...