If that's the case - if the military is going to protect you - why do average citizens need guns at all in case of a government revolution? Won't the military just do the fighting for you then?

America was founded because the English were taxing its citizens, without giving them a right to voice their opinion. So the Americans took up guns, formed militias, and started a war to overthrow the government through a revolution. So, through that lens, it makes absolutely perfect sense why those are the first two…

I think the truth is that there's a fair lack of empathy in American society across many sects of the populace, even for each other. The overwhelming feeling I get from lots of Americans is that when a gun crime happens, as tragic as it is, it's far away, physically, from many people and they don't quite think…

Funding problems. Community problems still exist, and are largely invisible to a lot of the, uh, community on whole. They're mostly in inner cities, though, and a lot of them are heavily privatized, funded by foundations and grants from state governments, etc. When deinstitutionalization took place, a lot of the…

It's not about the "health effects" of an individual getting shot. The NIH has a much broader scope than that. It would be about compiling research (likely many grants, many research studies) on gun violence… for instance, statistics on national gun violence, piloting of potential regulations to firearm sales, polling…

Perhaps "Hundreds too many."

And mooses. Moose?

I do like Adam Arkin…

I also just started rewatching it last week. I'm on, uh, episode two…

Man, Parks and Rec ended really strong.

I remember my father liked that show. The only other thing I remember about it was the credits or something had something to do with a moose?

If I had any kids, I'd sacrfice the least of them for a Terriers revival of some sort.

I don't understand your apprehension toward mystery. If you don't like the show so far, that's totally cool - don't watch it. It's probably better for you, since if you didn't like these first two hours so far, then it's fair to assume the world they've constructed, and characters they've depicted, aren't coalescing…

Personally, I don't know anything about the comics, and I watched both episodes, and I'm pretty excited for the rest. The second episode was pretty cohesive, even if some elements weren't fully explained. To expect that everything is readable on the surface this early on is pretty silly. The scene where the guy…

I think you see new copies of them falling from the sky in the scene where Cassidy is going to bury their bodies but notices the sun. There appear to be two objects falling in the sky in that scene.

During the scene when Cassidy goes to step outside to bury the corpses, he sees the sunlight, and in the sky are, if I recall correctly, two streams like meteors in the sky. My assumption is that new copies of these two are falling down at this time, right after the previous ones were killed.

At least one for every episode in which someone gets their genitals chewed on, absolutely.

Also, I think sympathy for Negan is probably mixed. I don't think I felt a ton of sympathy for him, but it did occur to me that, yeah alright, they killed lots of his guys, so it makes sense he'd want to kill one of theirs. On the other hand, they whole group had been demonstrated to be pretty irredeemable fucks…

Vader was in the one of the first scenes of Star Wars.

There is more than one way to view a television show, and not all of them involve watching from the channel, etc… but, that said, I did in fact watch the show that way. The ratings are crazy good, and that's expected, and it will continue to go on. I never said anything like I hope it to be cancelled, etc.