I've never heard of that one. Since it's HCA, is it safe to assume everyone sympathetic dies in abject misery?

And Maroon 5's "This Summer Is Gonna Hurt Like a Motherfucker."

Easteros: I don't hurl epithets at you. If you can't have a courteous conversation with someone with whom you disagree, you're not worth talking to.

I'm sorry, but you're being ridiculous. I've already said I'm not a fan. I would have loved to see "a change" at the top of the Democratic Party, but it didn't happen. It's over, and she's the party's nominee. We now have a choice between Clinton and Trump. Nobody else is going to win. It. Won't. Happen. If I thought…

As I said, I'd love to change our electoral system, and electing a slate of progressive candidates might eventually get us there, though it's not hugely likely. But, with the system we have, the country isn't going to elect a third-party candidate, because no third party is strong enough, and the entrenched advantages…

Bryan, nothing in the debate between Sanders and Clinton comes near as the grotesque behavior of the GOP primary race, so I reject your argument. Primaries are always contentious; the '08 race was quite bitter at times; so was '92. I'm a minority (gay), so my perspective may differ from yours. I can see a cavernous…

Easteros, I'd love to see a multiparty electoral system, but we don't have one, and we won't as long as we have first-past-the-post elections. That system almost always entrenches two-party systems. Personally, I believe in strong, disciplined political parties. They're better at delivering on their promises. We don't…

And they're Democrats, too. That's the insane part. I have liberal friends who consistently vote 3rd party because of their own feelings about the inadequacy of the party. These are members of the Democratic Party. Their goal should be enacting a Democratic agenda, and some of them were still talking about voting for…

First of all, your argument about concision and being "to the point" is a non-starter. "Destroyed" and "decimated" have exactly the same number of letters. I have no problem with a website (or do you not allow that as a word, either?) expecting people to be able to comprehend both terms.

No. There are five. Now, how many charts do you see?

You're not one of those hyper-pedantic people who wants us to use decimate only in its 2000-year-old sense, are you? If so, I bite my thumb at you, sir. Decimate is a handy word, and if we only used it in its ancient, Roman sense, we'd never be able to use it all in the modern world. Meaning drifts: you need only look…

Kevan Lannister, for one, which is a rather different end for him than the books.

Liam, 'read the books' is not a defense of the plot in the series. Kevan Lannister was killed by the children on the orders of Varys in the books (when he sneaked back into King's Landing), because Kevan was too good at his job. That's not what happened tonight. The series definitely pins the blame for the slaughter…

I just saw this reply, and I'm not sure if you were joking. In case you were being serious, I refer you to "Dress and Insignia Worn at His Majesty's Court." You'll find the details in the 1898, 1908, or 1912 editions.

Actually, if you read up on nullification laws, you would discover that many Americans, including prominent politicians in a number of states, take an extremely confederal view of the national government's role, and object to the federal government on precisely the same grounds that you use to attack Brussels.

Oh, it gets worse than that, believe me. Mercedes-Benz had three different 5-speed gearbox patterns in the same family sedan (the 190) over a five-year period. One was an H-pattern, one was a dogleg, and the third was an RBL pattern (reverse bottom left) that only Mercedes, Renault, and a couple European exotics…

Adam has it right.

I love that part of "The Last Battle." That's a theology I can actually get behind.

It's basically a US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird painted silver with the tails lopped off.

Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought.