Conservatives co-opted the politics of victimization and liked it so much they just can't get enough.

@avclub-39dd889e0ab668280dbd73c93917e652:disqus First off, when you want to express a thought that's "not that bad" in your head, but when you put it into words it sounds bad—that can be a red flag that it actually is just that bad (that is, you're a douche).

I can't believe Dan didn't give the most obvious piece of advice—have a baby!

This is a great example. I saw a version of this (a filmed play) and the actor had no prosthetics, and it was effective in part because you don't need to worry about the grotesqueness of Merrick or not.

This is a great example. I saw a version of this (a filmed play) and the actor had no prosthetics, and it was effective in part because you don't need to worry about the grotesqueness of Merrick or not.

The thing is, the article sucks. It fails miserably at telling me why various real ads were better than what Don pitched. My gut is that most of the time the Draper pitch is better—it's striking. But that's my taste and it's uninformed by being an ad professional. Which is fine, but then the article should explain or…

I'm not exactly saying that. It's a conditional promise, and Robb said the conditions explicitly to the Freys at the time. When they win, when it's his to give, when it's no longer needed in the war effort. There's no indicator that Robb is promising that in bad faith or even in subterfuge; it's just conditional on…

I've never seen any reason to think that the events that are being told concurrently are necessarily happening concurrently. I'm fairly certain that they are happening concurrently in fairly broad strokes, and we know ordering when characters give each other news, but I think the writers are purposefully non-exact…

I'm curious about what you base this on.

A woman I know came up with what I call the "— metric" (where "—" is her name and not repeated here, Poe-style) which is a measure of how long it would take a person to get laid. She estimated her metric and that of most of the women she knew as 30 minutes, I have to agree with her. For most guys it's probably on the…

In reverse order. And thank you for calling me special :)

I'm not going to try to get you to like the actress, but I think if the message you're getting is that "she's no good at swordfighting or shooting" you're picking up the wrong one. The message is that she is very good at these things—for her age—and the people who are pointing out her weaknesses are all making her…

What's "all this time" in the wilderness, though? It could be as little as three weeks. In this episode he talked about the stew at the Wall, I don't think we've seen that he can't eat as much as he likes there, and he does the "desk jobs" so I don't know why he'd necessarily lose weight in the Watch.

Is he really doing more than hedging his bets? I guess it depends on his read on whether Tywin Lannister would exact revenge on him if he acted as an honorable enemy and fixed Jamie and Brienne up and sent them under guard back to Robb. He's currying favor with a post-war Lannister regime but I don't know about…

I'm with you.

The criticisms in this thread seem to be off-base. Frey has asked for one recompense, and it is substantial (Harrenhahl); and he is giving much more (an armed alliance—actual troops to attack Casterly Rock, vs. right of way). It's an entirely different scale from what was asked and granted before.

I can kind of understand each individual piece of the scene, and I feel like I know how we were supposed to take Sam, but something about him was really off-putting. He seemed creepy or weird, his tone was off, I don't know. I can't put my finger on it but it felt yucky.

@cpjones79:disqus I was surprised that it didn't occur to Pete to say he was there with a client or coworker but he would never visit a prostitute himself—his father-in-law didn't see him come out of the room or interact with any of them.

Additionally, in terms of the actual getting of babies, marital relations and all that, I think you could probably do much worse in Westeros than Tyrion as well. There are the potential makings for a pretty good (if compromised) set-up in a three-way relationship between Shae, Tyrion and Sansa, since it allows Tyrion…

I really like the song, so I was (finally) really interested in a Hate Song piece, and I didn't end up hating the guy as much as I thought I would. The perspective here is all subjective, I don't think he says anywhere that the song is bad on its own or the Animals did a bad job with it.