One of the things I loved about Winter Soldier is that she and Cap DON’T get together.

Evans, at least, managed an actual apology. Tip for Renner: “just blowing off steam” is not the same as “I screwed up and I’m sorry.”

I suspect many people who are SO ANGRY about how the flag gets treated are not actually angry about the flag, but about all the hippies and Wikileakers and the lesbian weddings and people expecting respect for their foreign holidays and the brown man in the White House.

JOSS IS THANOS

Yay, I guess? I mean, they are leaving AoS, so that is a good thing. But the Marvel Universe is expanding at a rate now that outstrips my ability to be excited about all of it.

Susan Slusser has no need to make shit up. She’s been covering the A’s for more than a decade and is respected enough to have been the first woman elected president of the BBWAA. She probably owns reporter’s notebooks older than Grant Stevens.

My mistake.

1980s version: Lipstick Vogue (Elvis), Non-Alignment Pact (Pere Ubu), Independence Day (Comsat Angels), You Can’t Be Too Strong (Graham Parker), Johnny Hit and Run Paulene (X), Why’d Ya Do It? (Marianne Faithfull).

You could make a whole late-night bruised-heart drive playlist from Bob Dylan alone, arranged in the stages of relationship grieving: Positively 4th Street, Don’t Think Twice, Visions of Johanna, Just Like a Woman, If You See Her Say Hello, Tangled Up in Blue.

In this country, at least, the decision to wear a headscarf is voluntary and the students I’ve had who chose to cover their heads were anything but retiring.

“Oh, did we forget to mention our radioactive sand? Here, have another Corona.”

If you grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know the Farallons were used as a nuclear dump. But it’s not something that’s discussed much, so I can readily believe people who come to the area being freaked out:

I hope this is the final iteration of the charging cable. It’s annoying as hell that everyone at my work uses Apple products, and none of us can share chargers in a pinch.

There is some difference between “their rudeness hurt your feelings” and “they have blood on their hands.”

This level of illiteracy and agnosia is way too damn common among my people, and I just want to apologize on behalf of white folks everywhere. Jesus Christ, what the hell is wrong with us?

I would just start five episodes back and catch up on the earlier episodes later. I have not actually been in love with this season, and you might be better off reading recaps of the interminable, confusing search for the Inhuman Temple of Doom. Since Skye got her powers, things have picked up.

Hey, if ANYBODY ever was a Browncoat, it's Han Solo.

Seriously. If Burning Man can figure out how to provide adequate toilet facilities in the middle of the desert, Cubs management ought to be able to find a porta-john supplier in Chicago.

That is a really, REALLY extreme version of “sleep training.” And yeah, expecting an 8-week-old to go 12 hours without nursing or being changed seems nuts.

These fish can only be found in Death Valley — and their habitats are so small and isolated from each other that each creek is home to a different subspecies. (In other words, the Devil's Hole pupfish are distinct from the Salt Creek pupfish and the Cottonball Marsh pupfish.) They are highly adapted to a brutal…