I can't think of any other actor or actress in this role who'd make me sure to give it a try. She seems super cool in her Fresh Air interview, too.

That's his schtick.

@avclub-091d584fced301b442654dd8c23b3fc9:disqus So, your argument for conservative beliefs on gays is "no one listens to us, so it's okay"? Duly noted. 

What, he's not up to the standard of Larry King? Does he conduct interviews in dolphin speak or something?

Western civilization is pretty awesome from where I'm sitting, Snidely. Whether we can sustain it when we run out of cheap and easily available fossil fuels is another question.

I think we're supposed to start using the phrase "Judeo-Christian civilization" ever since American conservatives decided they liked Israel more than they disliked Jews.

Ah, Lobsters and his dozen comments of not caring.

I guess we're going to have to take this otherworldy hotness on faith, because all the pictures on Google show Cameron posing with a standard-for-TV-attractive lady.

Puritan New England had a widespread custom called "bundling" for couples who were courting. Kirk, presumably, and the virginity ball weirdos would not have approved, as the couple sorta tied into bed with a board between them in such a way that they were supposed to not be able to have p in v sex, but it was…

Which isn't that different from the actual Sarah Palin, who's mostly interested in making big money by being a Republican on TV, as a opposed to running for office and such.

Christian beliefs are still pretty diverse. But for some strange reason, you never hear the kind of "religious liberty" arguments currently being bandied about by the Catholic Bishops applied to, for example, Quakers who want to perform federally-recognized gay marriages and not have their tax dollars go to blowing up…

@avclub-1e850f6bef0bc36ca1f64e95ff1cbd2e:disqus The sorta organized atheist movement has been having a fight about openness to women or the lack thereof for the last couple years. So, I don't think so.

The idea that we're going to sit down and have a nice productive political discourse is a relic of the time when we had political parties that weren't really based around ideology. Conservative southerners insisted on being Democrats for about 100 years because they were upset at Abe Lincoln and northeastern liberals…

It's in no way a Shoe ripoff. Shoe had attempted jokes and funny situations.

Rick Santorum

The choices are getting a little thin, too.

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On reread, the Catelyn chapter that describes Robb's army marching from Riverrun to the Twins through hellacious autumn rains might as well be scored with mournful Celtic fiddle and bag pipes playing a funeral march. It's pretty clear foreshadowing for the King in the North.

My bet is that they cut Tower of Joy partly for reasons to do with keeping R+L=J from being made explicit.

It's never going to play as cool on the screen, though. You'd have to do some kind of voiceover to say 'Hey, that's Rhaegar' and half the audience wouldn't remember who Rhaegar is.

The show's been pretty consistent with making everything Martin described sorta grayer and browner. Those are colors of Emmys, after all.