Possibly, or it could be that he was doing a job. You can be a feminist man and still need to get the rent paid, and I can think of a few actors/directors/artists who have said things that are on the "right side" of stuff and they still do things in their work that don't line up so well. (I wasn't aware of Alda's…

Even weirder was that Devlin seems to be one of the few products of the 1970s that didn't involve the characters in a band.

I remember that the Wonder Twins used to always seem to try and deal with "teenager problems" — which back then was stuff like peer pressure and doing stupid things like play chicken near waterfalls, which to 7-year-old-me actually sounded pretty cool.

Lots of things don't age particularly well on that front. I'd wager there isn't a single television show ever made from the period that has.

In NYC people do live in single family homes, ya know, out in Queens and even in the far upper reaches of Manhattan near Dyckman street. And understand that not owning a car is ~$700 a year in insurance and loads of gas that I am not spending money on. And I can walk to places that are pretty good (like the Met) and…

As noted below, if he had a rent-controlled space (especially in Brooklyn or the Bronx) it could be pretty big by NYC standards. I used to know a guy who lived on the Grand Concourse. He was in one of those older buildings before the neighborhood (down by Yankee Stadium) started getting expensive, and his place was…

The idea that they'd have the slightest useful intelligence more than a year or two after the war was over is simply silly. About the best they could tell them was maybe some tactical stuff about how some systems get used, but anyone who had faced Americans in battle would kind of know that already. Think of this: if…

The POW myth actually predates that — there was a long piece in the Atlantic I think back then then outlined that most all of the POW cases were "BNR" — body not recovered. If you got blown to bits and nobody found your tags (or they found the tags but not you) then you were BNR.

Late to this party, but I want to offer up a little perspective from the son of an OBGYN.

Sid was pretty Vicious, but not so Viscous, as his bones were still solid. :-)

Reading through the comments below I was reading Naz's transformation as something a little different.

Yes and no. Wikipedia is really good about some things and less so about others. Example: for a long while the Bella Abzug page had effectively accused her of plotting a coup. It was silly, but because you don't have a huge cadre of Bella Abzug fans around the article let that stay for a while.

Speaking as one who has a similar problem, not always. Eczema can be a real chronic issue, as it really describes a symptom, and you can try all kinds of steroid creams and god knows what else before you find something that works. Psoriasis in particular can be brought out by stress. Which, by the way, for this…

I'll agree with those that say Barrowman has had little to work with from the writers these past seasons. It's like they can't figure out how to move his arc forward.

He got right, I think, that the Masters would underestimate them, and not just because of the uneasy peace he negotiated. And my sense was that he was trying to buy time. The fact was Mereen was in a tough position — they have fewer soldiers, they haven't got a fleet, and they for sure didn't have the advantage at…

Yes, that's the explanation I recall.

Right but there wasn't much he could do about the former, except hope that Mereen could stay peaceful long enough that he could build a viable economy and military force. He failed in that, but it wasn't like it was due to incompetence. The Masters in other cities already had a force that was larger than the Meerenese…

Actually, his advice has been pretty good, no? He got the city to be peaceful enough, it was only the Wise Masters' attack that changed that and the did underestimate the Meerenese freedmen, and Dany herself. His being related to her enemy doesn't count for much, since her enemy is really Tywin and he's the nephew,…

Funny, I thought that was just because they knew where he was. Either way, I hope Jon is smart enough to stock up on dragonglass arrows.

Totally. Problem is, people who fear you too much will rebel, because nobody likes living that way. See: Aegon. Aegon was a psycho and he paid for it because he went after one too many people. (I was just reading about French 14th century French monarchs, so there is a parallel with Charles VI here). Charles wasn't…