OMG PEOPLE GOT NEW JOBS IN THE PAST 4 YEARS! ESCANDALO!

On the other hand, it’s a little weird that the guy who’s writing the next Star Trek movie is coming out against escapism and fun. That does make me worried. And the guy has spent his whole career, by his own admission, being the “poster child” for geek culture and playing on the stereotype of the “geeky man-child who…

I can’t tell you how refreshing this recap was after slugging it out all day with folks arguing about the closing scene. This though:

This was pretty much my thought on the whole thing- Ramsay is a monster, doing as monsters do.

It wouldn’t be the first time the show has made us change our minds about morally awful characters. Just look at Jaime Lannister.

If that scene is used solely to move Theon further and not Sansa, yes, I’d be thoroughly disappointed, but I don’t expect that to happen. But the question does become whether Sansa has an…

Sansa has been escaping this very fate for years, and has done so out of sheer luck. Rape has been used as a cheap plot device on the show recently, but I really don’t think this is one of those instances.

The scene was very difficult to watch, but I felt like it worked well for the story they’re telling. It was right that Ramsay would rape Sansa; not only is he a sadist, but culturally he’d be expected to — remember that Tyrion was considered a weirdo for NOT immediately raping his teenage bride. I also felt like the…

I found myself surprised that I was upset that during the rape they showed only Theon’s face. The only thought I had was “way to make a woman getting raped all about how a man feels.”

“So… you’re still abortion-minded, even if you happen to be tubally pregnant?” she asked.

The point is not adding “token” women. The point is recognizing the knowledge and skills women abundantly have, and are equal to or exceed that of male panalist, and incorporate them equally into the world.

The way she worded that statement was strange. I don’t know what “personhood” means here to her. But she is absolutely right that Europeans’ enslavement of Africans was exceptional. Meaning, it was worse than any other form of slavery that we know about. We need to stop pretending that this was just the European…

I think what she was trying to say (it’s tough in 140 characters!) wasn’t that other countries haven’t practiced slavery, it’s that European slavery of Africans was historically different because it established them as chattel, encouraged them to have children (who’d also be slaves), etc. — In other words, it was…

I wasn’t aware that ‘Having a black person living in the building’ was a chargeable service. To be fair it does seem a bit prices for that, if they’re paying it on top of their rent.

The other two things I did a lot of:

“We’re not paying that much money to have black people live in the building.” If it’s white tenants only, it’s clean. I know it’s a little bit racist...

Great news. I feel like he had no choice. The Times, with their amazing effort on this series of pieces, essentially came out and said NYC is full of sweat shops masquerading as nail salons. Pretty damning stuff. Kudos to the journalists.

It really is a spectacularly dumb criticism from Dowd. Almost every single person who runs for office, regardless of party or gender, tries to paint themselves as being family oriented. To single out Hillary for doing it is just typically Dowdian idiocy.

Obama also spoke about the constant criticism she’s received for not having “bold” enough platforms

that unicorn must feel like this.