Fascinating and spot-on in my take, the sweetness of the crepe and pancake maybe too much for the generally savory foods in between the rest but it isn't an awful thing.

Do we need track walkers? I didn't know we lived in the 19th century. I thought we lived in the 21st where cheap CMOS cameras were so widely available and sturdy boxes and arms could be erected every so many yards that a simple recognition system could announce the presence of large enough foreign objects on the…

I've collected on life insurance, my husband's policy was term and we paid through the nose for it but it ended all my student loans and helped me buy an individual house. It's not something you do with glee, it's just something you do. :(

CSX is supposed to be aware of obstructions and unlike say a random person who stumbles onto the tracks this was a film crew. I agree, they're not the majority actor in this but it's their tracks, their property, and their failure to secure them. 35% is probably high but not outrageous given the situation.

Furries come in two solid groups: The highly educated who do it as a form of sexual release or self-association as an extension of their identity. The other group is mostly HS-educated or less who relish into it with some deeply skewed views on sexuality and indulgence. It doesn't really make it that the other…

I would say that access to college alone does that, JSTOR is nice and actually is usually accessible through public libraries, but can the average person discern p-values in studies?

I'm really not seeing a problem with Jon's acquiescence to letting them keep their castles for the moment. You know what you do when you're about to fight a huge and bloody war? You don't upset the apple cart. You sent those sniveling bastards in first, then when they're all dead you hand their castle to somebody…

I work in academia, this isn't necessarily true across the board but there are definitely the 'dead weight' players who entitle themselves to think the world should bow their feet for being the gatekeepers.

It's depressing to see him go but he was a hometown hero in many ways and he'll be missed simply because of his influence on the horror genre in general never mind the fact that he tackled racial issues head-on in his earliest films.

Propaganda would imply that somehow Dr. Who couldn't be a woman or somehow shouldn't be a woman. It's not really propaganda if it isn't a lie. Promoting an agenda? Sure. But Dr. Who always has promoted an agenda, largely of being a good person and appreciating humanity. This isn't exactly upsetting the apple cart…

Sorry, word salad, you setup your argument and I knocked it down. You're arguing in a dictatorship doing nothing is better than something and that may be true in a highly advanced society like Iran where the dictatorship was and is relatively weak compared to the remaining institutions. Iraq wasn't that case. …

Sorry, you're claiming that the Baath party wasn't the only institutional actor in Iraq? That's some incredulous claims on it's face. Feel whatever you want about Clinton but stick to facts.

I'm pretty sure Clinton supported the end of Iraq's dictatorship but also promoted the food for oil program that if it wasn't corrupted would have been a huge boon to a people living in abject terror.

When the governor of a state has to address foreign powers and engage in international affairs your argument will matter.

Fascinating information. It's kind of sad because the war years movies are almost all but forgotten because of either their lack of star power, lackluster performance, or tendency to be propaganda (any pro-soviet film basically has been sitting in the vault since then).

1941 isn't a terrible movie in the sense that it's satirical…but yeah….It's not a great film.

Hook is super 90's in so many ways but every Pan movie since then has been chasing that dream. Hard to really knock on it if you watched it as a kid in context, I could imagine in 2011 after a score of better action films and the whole 'dad ignores his son' quasi-misogynistic ignorance of the daughter story is trite…

The Hound pays out. You don't need to live past the bowl to win it, just be the last one breathing (or technically breathing?).

Yep, she's got all the making of 'innocent gone sour' trope and gets taken out with littlefinger.

Same, she's also a crowd favorite and pretty much sets up a clear path still for Jaime as his conscience.