Danke- interesting points, and it makes me wish I had the time to read it…

And remember that these are the sort of folk we're supposed to invest in for our future!

So, how exactly did he end up the last guy standing? Luck? Timing?

We do?

…..but not a woman

With any luck, that means he'll soon be off to a better place….

Quite- a lot about the last few years here has been Gresham's Law in action.

Oh, those are fair points- but I don't see why we can't do all that under a different name, or why it has to be called Lilith Fair.

Bilge- the evidence we've been getting from film suggests otherwise, and remember that concerts are a lot cheaper to stage than films. Unless given any reason to think anything other than people being assholes on Twitter would occur, this is the sort of mindless hand-wringing that makes a lot of our political…

Hasn't the most important member of that act obtained a considerable career in television production?

If they wanted a Mamet to play a terrible human being, why not see if David is available?

*Peter Gallagher takes one look at those eyebrows and scoffs*

And then he punched out the mirror!

*Trash can is thrown through the Red Keep's window*

But what's in it for me?

Various people out for revenge?

And damned if we know what to do when he does….

That reminds me- anyone here read the scholarly edition of the original manuscript that became the Little House on the Prairie books? I wonder if either Wilder's original manuscript or the scholarly notes were franker involving her father's motives.

Sincere question I have:

And they lost it in a high-stakes game of contract bridge!