Well, she was raped. Which is illegal. Unfortunately, the kind of sexual abuse that she details is difficult, if not impossible, to prosecute, even if it’s nominally against the law. It’s hard enough to get a conviction in situations with tons of physical evidence, so understand why you’re painting with the broad…

(not sure what the show is saying about adoptive parents here, though, since Angela only thrives in the arms of her birth mother, who, unlike the testy Mrs. Putnam, loves her wholeheartedly)

Because he’s savvy, and it’s his brand. Think about how much press he gets every time he does an “EPIC” stunt that other actors don’t do. Other actors could do this kind of thing, but generally aren’t allowed to - but he’s figured out how to make the risk* profitable for him and for the studios. It’s actually one of…

The next day, Mindy Kaling posted a picture of her eating an ice cream cone at the Friendly Store in Centennial. I still haven’t come to terms with this information.

That’s lovely and really captures how cool it is to see the whole town full of fireworks at night.

Haha, we actually made it a point to be up in Lander for the 4th for the last few years that we lived in southeast WY (we turned it into a nice circuit where we drive up through Dubois to see friends, go over Togwotee, and then camp outside Jackson for a night or two to round it out...it’s a good little route).

I was not at UW for the OG run of prairie gold, but I did wind up with a football jersey from that era. It was...something else.

it’s a dyed-in-the-wool red state, and probably will always be.

And yet we have two Senators and an (at-large, Cheney) rep in the House, and DC has none.

Yo! I just moved to Lander - I moved down recently after a few months living in Star Valley...so Lander is like, a gleaming metropolis of my heart. It is the best.

Others have responded to your other points, but I just want to point out that I find it dismaying that you characterize an important conversation - the “we’re making a new family, what do we want to be called?” conversation - as “contention,” “dick measuring,” “argument,” and “ego.” Not everything has to be an effing…

Some people always have to be the vanguard in showing things are ok and the sky won’t fall when you do things a little differently, you know? My husband took my name. I have a massive family on both sides (think over 30 first cousins) and nobody had done anything remotely like this before. It went from “WTF” to “oh…

But when it actually comes time, it seems that people are just not willing to put up with the social friction.

I have a PhD and my husband took my name. I was hoping to get some “Dr. and Mr. Jeans” correspondence, but so far we’re still getting “Mr. and Mrs. Hisfirst Hislast” from those who care enough about etiquette to address things formally. It does amuse me that when we meet new people and are introduced as Dude and Blue…

Just because they come back doesn’t mean there won’t be serious consequences. I mean, you could levy this exact criticism at the comics whenever some major world altering shift happens. People die and they come back....it’s the literal circle of life for most of these characters anyway. Suspending your meta-knowledge…

Tony’s going to feel directly responsible, because he failed. Peter’s life is the stakes of him failing to stop Thanos. (Also half the universe, but Peter faded away in his arms while completely frightened, so...)

I am interested in other points you make, but I have to step in to REALLY disagree with this. That he’s physically attractive highlights the horror to me. The issue with the Commander in any iteration is not that he’s unsexy, it’s that he’s routinely raping Offred. Showing him as the show does in flashbacks - in a…

Nah, this is an undergraduate biology classroom. We’re talking about a lecture course that almost certainly cuts across a HUGE range of students. You’re as likely to have a student-athlete who wants to go to med school or a ranch kid majoring in wildlife biology in that setting, you’re not just talking about a…

studies have shown

I think that Criss has been amazing as Cunanan. That said, the moment from the series that has stuck with me the most is the when Trail comforts the young gay sailor and they have that instant moment of recognition - really all of that entire episode will be with me for a long time.