My then-wife and I watched it for the first time for each of us about ten years ago and both of us thought the bookstore scene was the best part of the whole movie.

I read the book last year, and it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense either. Without going to look for it on my shelves, I seem to recall the foreword talking about how it was a “stitch-up” of several different short stories (not an unusual practice at the time) and that even Chandler thought it was mostly about mood and setting rather than the plot (which is full of holes, the killer of the chauffeur being just one of them).

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/03/hilarious-hillary-2.php

https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/JW-v-State-Hillary-Deposition-Order-01242.pdf

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/05/stands-with-tin-cup-takes-a-knee/

‘Stands With Tin Cup’ Takes a Knee…
Posted on March 5, 2020 by sundance
As expected most media outlets are now reporting Elizabeth Warren is ending her ill-fated bid for the presidency and is gonna git her a beer.
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It will be interesting to watch if Warren endorses Sanders on the trail of tears, or if she takes her tin cup to Joe Biden.

A most likely scenario for Liawatha is a non-endorsement of Sanders without an overt endorsement of Biden and the Big Club; simply because a non-endorsement of Sanders is a covert endorsement of Biden and her limo-liberal alliance.

As usual, having your cake and eating it too.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/03/elizabeth-warrens-embarrassing-massachusetts-loss-exposes-her-fawning-media-fans/

Elizabeth Warren’s embarrassing loss in Massachusetts is a great reminder that the political/media/Twitter bubble isn’t real. Let’s look back on some of the slobbering magazine covers.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/03/america-punished-elizabeth-warren-her-competence/607531/

…Malone spoke with two women at a Buttigieg event in New Hampshire. One liked Joe Biden, but felt he was a bit too old for the presidency. The other liked Buttigieg, without qualification: “I feel he’s well positioned,” she explained. “The country is ready for a more gentle approach.”

As for Elizabeth Warren? “When I hear her talk, I want to slap her, even when I agree with her.”
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One of the truisms of the 2020 campaign—just as it was a truism in 2016, and in 2008—is that women candidates are punished, still, for public displays of ambition. (One resonant fact of Hillary Clinton’s political life is that she was much more popular, in opinion polls, during her tenure as secretary of state—a role for which she did not campaign, and in which she served as at the pleasure of the president—than she was when, just a few years after that, she sought the presidency herself.) American culture has maintained a generally awkward relationship with political self-promotion: That George Washington was conscripted into the presidency rather than campaigning for it remains a foundational bit of lore. When women are the ones doing the promoting, the tension gets ratcheted up.

Kate Manne, a philosopher at Cornell University, describes misogyny as an ideology that serves, ultimately, to reinforce a patriarchal status quo. “Misogyny is the law-enforcement branch of patriarchy,” Manne argues. It rewards those who uphold the existing order of things; it punishes those who fight against it. It is perhaps the mechanism at play when a woman puts herself forward as a presidential candidate and finds her attributes—her intelligence, her experience, her compassion—understood as threats. It is perhaps that mechanism at play when a woman says, “I believe in us,” and is accused of being “self-righteous.”

Maybe they were being punished for being serial liars, financial grifters, and generally unpleasant human beings.

Note that the lead-off sentence quotes a female, not a male, voter.

And, wasn’t the biggest complaint about Ted Cruz “but he’s just not warm and fuzzy” — hard to blame that on the patriarchy.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1235203416554704897.html

The big lesson coming out of the 2020 Dem primary is that social media does not provide an accurate picture of the electorate. It’s a hall of mirrors that has a tendency to exaggerate support for fringe candidates and magnify weak attacks into sick burns.
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This is one reason Bernie Sanders looked all but unstoppable to the media, even though a lot of legacy media orgs didn’t like him. It’s most noticeable in the media fascination with Warren, who is practically an asterisk out in the real world but looked huge on social media.

Social media isn’t always wrong about candidates, and it’s probably true that successful campaigns are now difficult to pull off without a decent online presence, but it’s too easy to forget that real-world still matters more. Social media magnifies and distorts passion.
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The thing you have to remember about social media, its defining attribute, is that it’s EASY. Instant input, instant output, zero cost, zero effort. Anything that requires even the tiniest bit of effort, with even the smallest dollop of consequences, will go very differently.

Which demonstrates something a lot of people in politics don’t want to admit: the difficulty of voting, even when it’s made very easy, influences the outcome. We would live in a very different world if we had one-click online voting, no matter how secure it was. /end