In shocking development, racist, entitled, Randian conman with no political experience treats highest political office in the country as platform for racist, Randian con.

Am I the only one that thought she was satirizing that strategy?

American Gods has a great answer for you! Great in the sense of, you get what you believe in, which sucks for those of us who believe in the void.

It also doesn't help that he wrote it in jail for a crime he didn't commit shortly before he was beaten to death!

Yeah. Unfortunately, the essential predicate is faith, both in God's existence and in his fundamental goodness.

I have been told that "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius is one of the best explanations for why, if god exists, bad things happen to good people. The answer is logically consistent, insofar as it is also totally useless.

Even more so, it's America as a modern Israel for white protestants who see wealth as a the primary indicator of your favor with God.

Except precisely that reasoning underscores that they are not beautiful works of art. They were garbage thrown up on the cheap in a hurry.

If we've learned anything about Star Wars, it's that Kathleen Kennedy will let someone do their thing right up through about 2/3 of the way through production, then wrestle control of the project away and do what she needs to do to make it part of the brand.

This Is The End was as good as it was (and it was!) precisely because it allowed a bunch of people who generally just play themselves anyway to really indulge in playing themselves.

Also, it gave Emma Stone a breakout role, which we should all be thankful for.

I have been to both Tarzana and the Galleria, and I have a hard time imagining a less exciting adventure. This is not a thrilling area of the greater Los Angeles metroplex.

**bells quietly jingle**

I do not get wine. I'm happy to drink it. I'm happy for other people to pick it for me. But describing wine as "fun" is totally beyond my brain.

As the Durham statute showed, they actually aren't beautiful or well made. They were made on the cheap decades after the Civil War ended to prop up Jim Crow institutions and remind black people of their place.

Well, again, this is sort of my point. We have seen of the Lord of Light exactly what Martin has chosen to show us. Especially as far as the show is concerned (which presumably the book will follow), the only times the Lord of Light has manifested his power "on demand" has been when there wasn't a sacrifice. We don't…

I'm deeply ashamed for not seeing that terribly obvious option staring me in the face, but I'm glad you didn't miss the opportunity.

So long as Reddit suffers t_D to exist, it's all fancy lipservice. Physical_removal was so obvious and so extreme that the fact they let it exist for a day is a disgraceful.

While I agree that the optics would be "not great," they've already feinted in that direction with Gilly's "only the audience will understand this" ramblings last episode. I don't remember if the Targs give women an equal claim to the throne, but, even if they do, the only remaining legitimate issue of the firstborn…

Think you had a time warp, there. That was definitely the '90s.