When I was around 13, my dad went off on a rant calling GWB and the others cocksuckers. Off the top of my head I said "why must you malign the cocksuckers?" He went silent for a moment, then said "alright, I'll come up with something else." It remains one of the proudest moments of my life.

I will not, good sir! I despised Cassie and her useless, frustratingly applied moralism in the face of an extinction level threat. Rachel was my hero growing up (she still kinda is).
As for the Leerans, once I remembered who they were, I think they weren't brought up more often because Applegate/various ghostwriters…

Mostly I think someone should've put duct tape over Cassie's mouth.

I respectfully and cheerfully disagree with virtually all of this!
I feel that in S2 Blaine kept them pretty much over a barrel - he was right that he was the only one who knew how to feed Seattle's zombies. They weren't working with him because he was adorable, and they took as many opportunities as they could to…

I can't figure out why Peyton isn't in the police department more often. As a prosecutor, she's supposed to be there when someone confesses or a deal is offered; now that Michalka is a regular they can actually do that.
Also, a running plot in S2 had DA Baracus fleeing the city and Peyton mistakenly sleeping with a…

Help me, I'm still missing it.

Oh shut the fuck up internet.

People, right or wrong, got used to feeling like the world was on an upswing, and so it was easier to watch black comedies or intense dramas without feeling it quite so strongly. Dr Strangelove wasn't terrifying in the 90s and 00s, when the risk of nuclear war was minimal; The Handmaid's Tale had died down in it's…

This read as "Dance Dance Revolution" to me, and I'm really happy with that mental image.

*sobs and runs out of room, because it's been four hours and no one else has yet*

I did think to myself after writing that, though: I understand why people explode sometimes. A repeated annoyance turns into a frustration turns into an outrage.
As an example, I've heard many, many, black people (especially women) talk about white people, who I assume were raised in actual barns, touching their hair…

Agreed, of course. If we count his pouty WHCD quasi-rally, I think he's up to four? I'm just wondering if he can actually switch from being a Republican candidate who'd maybe win to an Independent candidate who'd likely lose. As an uneducated youth, I was wondering if any of the history buffs wandering here knew.

Breaking character? That's a paddlin'.

He already registered to run as a Republican though, right? I don't know if there's an apparatus in place for him to switch.

I've been thinking for a while that people need to realize there's a difference between an outrage, a frustration, and an annoyance.

Yay, body shaming the other direction!

I can't unsee Frank Burns.

Have people forgotten the "let them die" shouts during the 2012 Republican primary debates?

A slight correction, if I may: Putin could improve Russia, at least incrementally. He just won't.

I thought it had a lot of potential, and I loved how ambitious it was. Most shows have rough-to-terrible first seasons, it's a shame that no one's letting them live long enough to get to the solid second and third seasons.