Not in the strict definition of the word, but plenty of characters think about or discuss the past. I'm guessing Lyanna Stark, for instance, wouldn't be counted in the grand total, even though her death is mentioned.

I substitute teach, so I'm always meeting new batches of kids, and I've seen plenty of white McKenzies, actually. That said, while I agree with you that there's little "upward flow" of naming trends, there is a sideways spread - it's not that uncommon to see lower class white people beginning to use names that were…

I was wondering that too. Isn't the idea that women are passive and delicate and unable to possibly commit murder because ew, dead body, yucky, kind of... anti-feminist? The news loves to report on female murderers; bonus points if they're pretty, which again is pretty non-feminist.

"Lean in" actually means "put some weight into that stabbing thrust, lady."

No, the joke is that women are objects whose value is assigned by attractiveness, so he's making fun of his friend by saying he can only date "low value" women. He's not taking the woman's easiness (or lack thereof) into consideration because clearly, who wouldn't want to sleep with Mitt & Co.? Unless you're a lesbian…

Well, there was that classmate that he and a few buddies held down and cut his hair off while calling him homophobic slurs. I realize that was quite a few years ago and not on the campaign trail, but still.

My mom had the same kind of link with my grandpa that you describe having with your husband. He was very sick (Parkinson's) and she tried to take care of him at home, but ended up having to put him in a nursing home. There were a lot of times that she would get an uneasy feeling and go visit, to find out that he was…

In my old apartment in college, my roommate and I discovered while cleaning one day that the previous residents had written "hello!" on the underside of the kitchen counter. Naturally, we had to contribute, so we wrote "you look silly doing that," because you had to bend over at an awkward angle to see it.

I don't think it's that bad. The skirt is a tiny bit short, but it's not skin-tight, so I think you can get away with it. Throw some tights and (flat) boots on, and you're good to go.

I don't know, I have asthma, and considering it's at its worst when I'm at the gym on the cardio machines, "suppressed crying" is sounding pretty reasonable.

Right? I wish I was as "obese" as that lady.

Exactly. Anyone else, and it would be "Oh, how brave of her to speak openly about something people for which people judge so easily." But only Lena Dunham can express the oh-so-controversial opinion of not stuffing children full of pills and be criticized anyway.

Thank you so much for this. There are NO clinical trials done on how medications affect adolescent brains, because what parents are going to sign their kids up to be lab rats? Dunham isn't "hating on" medications, she's saying - rightly so - that it shouldn't be the first choice for managing children's conditions.

I don't know if "pawn" is the word I'd use. Margaery isn't entirely powerless, she plans a few of her own moves.

Yes! Talisa just didn't make any sense character-wise. Jeyne at least could be explained by him trying to follow the honorable path, like his father would have, but Talisa? Marrying her was like Robb just up and decided, "Meh, I don't really want to win this war anyway."

It came off as very smug to me. Like, "Hey, while the rest of you guys are gushing over the royal baby, I'll just be down here in Africa doing charitable works and stuff. No biggie."

God prioritizes Americans, of course.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that line was ridiculous. Callie, you cannot possibly think that people's bones are the same color as their skin. She's white, not Caucasian-skin-colored, because she's a skeleton and bones are white.

This is amazing. I must have one.

Isn't that what sperm banks are for?