A simple way to think of it is that they both married their sisters, which was a very common (and unlike with the lannisters, open) practice for Egyptian royalty

But also fascinating! Thank you so much for taking the time.

Tut’s father married his (i.e., the father’s) sister (Tut’s aunt, and then after marriage also Tut’s stepmother); the father and aunt/stepmother had a daughter that Tut then married, making the aunt/stepmother also his MiL.

Weren’t they (the Akehnaten-dynasty; which I’m sure is not its formal name, but work with me here) radical reformers who tried to shift to some sort of monotheistic-type worship of the sun disk aten, such that there was some effort by later dynasties to erase them from the record? Could that be why there isn’t much to…

I thought it was an interesting subtle “outing” of Elizabeth. Every American has read (or at least been assigned to read) Walden. Elizabeth doesn’t know that.

He filed paperwork with the FEC relating to a run for President: http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00621540/1082572/

He filed (or started - I didn’t look closely) FEC paperwork to run for President: http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00621540/1082572/

My money is on a series of “interim” or “acting” seatwarmers as the White House gets the nation used to the idea of there being no Chief of Staff, which we eventually will accept because apparently nothing fucking matters anymore and we are living in some horrible work of Dadaist performance art

I think Far Cry 5 should make the list.

Fingers crossed for Arkady too.

It would be the worst imaginable thing. To have someone so, so obviously guilty of having done this, but the one (known) prosecutable incident is from a liar? It’s - I can’t accept that. It seems almost impossible to me too. It isn’t impossible though, and that kind of makes my heart clench up at reading this. (I am…

So let me explain, because it’s definitely weird from the outside: “two bits” is an old-timey American expression for a quarter (“two bits for a haircut,” etc.) I have absolutely no idea why - there wasn’t a “one bit,” twelve-and-a-half cent coin. Who knows.

A “two bit” con man

This isn’t directly responsive to your comment because it isn’t about why DOJ thinks it will interfere, but from the lawyer’s perspective: When you are a civil litigator with a difficult-to-prove (and, at a mimimum, expensive-to-investigate) factual claim (like “my client was threatened in a parking lot a decade ago…

I wish I could downvote this

Lots of people are insecure about one aspect of their body or another. I’m sure you are too, even if not about your height. It doesn’t mean he *should* be or that there’s anything wrong with how tall he is - but if it is something he doesn’t like about himself, I don’t think it’s fair to hold the fact he’s a human…

That guy was nominated by default - he was unopposed because there is no real republican operation in Chicago. Even the Republican Party categorically disowned him.

The body too.

You guys should try to work something out with Dallas to get North Stars back. How did Charlotte get Hornets back from NO? Do what they did!

But he’s a limited-purpose public figure. He’s fair game to the extent but it relates to the substance of the issue he’s held himself out on. Her attack has nothing to do with the substantive debate on that issue. It’s a completely personal attack, and it’s out of bounds, bullying for that reason.