Someone else pointed out that when given a choice between narrative convention and hamartia, Martin tends to side with the latter.

I don’t particularly care at all right now about the politics of any democrat running for state or national office, just so long as they call themselves democrats, they win majorities in State houses, and they redistrict those states out of Republican control after the 2020 census.

I think the opposite will happen. The Battle of Winterfell is lost HARD, and the survivors run to King’s Landing, with the Night King just collecting wights on the way. They’re caught in between the Army of Darkness and the Golden Company, and the checkmate is Tyrion igniting the wildfire under King’s Landing in a…

Hot dogs should be peeled like a banana and eaten raw.

I actually got to watch the descent into madness. A friend of mine was contemplating suicide, then got on anti-depressants, and slowly his facebook feed devolved from posts about grad school and how Florida sucks, to rants about libertarianism, how Clint Eastwood’s fictional characters should all be real, and how…

Game of Thrones has never been that tidy. Other than storytelling rules, there is zero reason the Night King should lose ever. Imagine he wins. He sits on the Iron Throne. And a mortally wounded Arya, having walked halfway across the continent with her fist holding in her guts, stabs him in the heart with a Valerian…

If there’s any case to be made about Rep Omar, it’s that as a very vocal and divisive figure, no matter what policies she brings up or actions she condemns, the news cycle ends up being about HER, instead of the policies, and headlines that should be about progressive initiatives in the House somehow get flipped into…

The Boring Company. Theranos. Juicero.

Exactly. This is the time Democrats hsould be putting forth their policy proposals and making the case for all the things they will be able to do to help America if they had the White House and Senate.

This is the stupidest fight, petty to a degree only the internet can foment.

Ack. Yes, psilocybin needs to be decriminalized, but this is the backward way to do it. There are multiple privately-funded studies underway in order to get the USDA to move it past Phase 3 trials for pharmacological use. And a big part of the reason WHY it’s gotten so far (and equally effective drugs like MDMA and…

In GRRM’s tradition of overturning high fantasy tropes and narratives, the White Walkers actually kill all of everyone’s favorite characters and take the North. Qyburn kills all the dragons, even the blue one, and Cersei rules Westeros until her death by gout, after which the entire continent is repossessed by the…

I prefer to see Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden as the real heroes. They have both conducted themselves with dignity and honor, and acted with moral conviction that the government’s doing were bad and needed to be brought to light.

The Swiss: I enjoy this thing, but I could live without it if necessary.

So, apparently at no point did Hanna Raskin attempt to don an elaborate series of disguises in order to gain entry?

I like where this is going and I want to know more.

Literally the only thing that matters is that the voters in those states continue to like the Democrats enough to vote for them over Republicans in local and state elections.

Game of Thrones defies the concept of ending. The entire point of the story is that realistic personalities and politics clash in way that do not necessarily hew to what we consider good narratives. The “Important” people can die suddenly. Completely random characters can suddenly become extremely important. “Should”…

If millenials are the generation furious about the hand dealt them by the baby boomers, then the upcoming generation is the one that has resigned itself already to living in a barren, warring hellscape and distracting itself from the onslaught of misery that modern society will collapse into with memes and junk food.