They might have gotten past it by now if it wasn't for the whole McCarthyism/Crucible angle giving them a new reason to keep talking about it.

Nope. That's pretty standard Australian grammar. Most Australian slang is just the first syllable of a word with "y" or "ie" on the end.

Elvis was certainly cool, but was he hip?

I have a sister, but we've always gotten on fine. I'm 45 now, and the last time I can recall genuinely being furious with her was in 6th grade, and that was more on the annoying friend she had over at the time.

I seem to remember when I lived in Chicago, a lot of the building owners had begun to block residents of their buildings from using the roof during games without paying.

I misread your first sentence as "Philadelphia's Spite Park" which seemed like an entirely reasonable name given the city's sports fans.

Adding to my previous post, as an Australian of British descent that moved to the US partway through elementary, I got an interestingly mixed view of Puritans. In Australia, they were simply these horrible fanatics that took over England briefly, then thankfully driven out of the country. In the United States, I got…

It's worth remembering that the Puritans were just really fucking weird, which is why they were essentially driven out of Europe in the first place. I suspect the average person in England at that time found them alien.

That was pretty dark for the first thing I read before bed last night.

I'm just a few years older than Chappelle, so I grew up with Cosby's stand-up, Fat Albert cartoons, and The Cosby Show. I don't think young people today can understand just how important those were in changing perceptions of black people in American culture.

The meandering plot with Elliot diminished my enthusiasm a little last season, but yeah, I am still going back to it. The direction and acting alone are worth showing up for.

I think the Hera/Kanan bond might actually work better because they can barely acknowledge it. TV shows often lean too hard putting drama into relationships, tossing in misunderstandings and threat of break-up that can ultimately wear out my sympathy over time.

The Cosby stuff was really insightful. People really have a problem dealing with the fact that the same person can do both horrible and wonderful things.

It's my personal theory that the decision to preempt all regular TV with news for days after 9/11 contributed to America being so deeply fucked up by it. I can see the networks doing it, but every cable station was running CNN. There was no way to get away from the constant coverage and just curl into a ball and watch…

You know, you are right. Maybe we are wrong to jump to the conclusion that DC and Snyder will deliver another turd. I think we owe it to them all buy tickets and be there opening night in the spirit of eternal optimism.

And I don't even care. That's the great part.

I'm fortunate enough to be old enough that I have heard his name but have no clue what his music sounds like.

They are fighting for the rights of the American voter to fuck themselves.

*sighs sadly and nods.

The whole play by Ryan was stupid. It's really the Freedom Caucus types that are baying for the repeal of Obamacare anyway. If you are going to present a bill that they aren't going to accept, you might as well leave the whole topic alone.