And I think the answer to that question, which we’re only seeing now that this show is getting trophies and whatnot, is “Well, now we get mad about it! Because we apparently can’t recognize injustice until we see our own faces on the wrong end of it. We’re not able to apply lessons from the past. Our empathy doesn’t…

Katarina Witt was my favorite! And I also loved Debi Thomas.

Armada was garbage, an author who got a big advance shitting out pages to satisfy an uncritical editor. Just a terrible pandering to herp-a-derp fanboys. IMHO. And I liked RP1! Which made me all the more disappointed in Armada.

The fetishising of WWII as “The Good War” ignores the purposeful irony of Studs Terkel’s use of that title for his book. (A must-read, IMHO.)

I might legit be into Jameela. (Tahani is great, her line readings are perfect.)

The Penn & Teller series “Bullshit” had an episode about the funeral industry, and told about how lower-priced caskets are made to look low-quality, so that the living will be guilted into picking a more expensive one. It’s a fucking scam all around, good for you for standing up to it.

I had a manager knock and open a door in practically a single action (not leaving us enough time to respond to the knock, even verbally) in a hotel in Chicago several years ago; we just looked at her like WTF? It was such a bizarre intrusion that will apparently now become commonplace. I guess we all have to become…

I’m pretty excited to get The Changeling for a good deal. Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom was excellent.

I’m pretty excited to get The Changeling for a good deal. Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom was excellent.

Holy cow. The holiest of cows. That is astonishing.

Honest question: Do you think abortion is really the issue there, or is it that support for anti-abortion candidates overlaps closely with support for white candidates? In other words, are they hiding behind one seemingly unimpeachable voting issue to disguise another, less savory motive?

And here comes Peyton Manning, General Manager. My bet, anyway.

I don’t know shit about cars, but I do know punctuation, and you were correct to hyphenate “super-impressive.” Replying to you, not the troll.

Far Northside checking in, woot!

I think he (or anyone who makes this kind of willful move) should be suspended for as long as the player he injured is out, minimum one game.

I just started The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, by Laurie R. King — the first in her series of Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Have heard good things, even from ACD purists. Up next might be The Stupidest Angel, by Christopher Moore; Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz; or Island, by Aldous Huxley.

Dashiell, conqueror

Stephanie White has more connections to Purdue — she played there herself, and won a national championship.

Call of Cthulhu is a good intro RPG, in my opinion, because the players are (usually!) playing humans in our world. You may be playing someone in 1928, or where/whenever, but you come to it with a basic understanding of what humans are, and do. And how you’d likely react, if you were for some odd reason to happen upon…

I spent a Christmas alone once, in another country. It was hard. In hindsight, the one thing I wish I’d done was find someplace to volunteer, because there were plenty of places that could’ve used the help on that day — shelters and kitchens and whatnot. And doing so would’ve put me in the company of people, in a way…

The Spanish restaurant Jaleo — the one near the Nat’l Portrait Gallery — is just spectacular. Am also a big fan of the Spy Museum, which is right near there, too.