“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou.

I did, but it still bears repeating. IDK, if you want to talk about “weird” I find K.’s flying Peugeot a lot less distracting than [very mild spoilers ahead] being repeatedly told The Blackout destroyed all electronic records... expect, what seems like everything concerning Rachel.

Oh, you mean the world where Pan Am and Atari still exist?

Fair point - but he’s also continuing the fine Game of Thrones tradition of being epically shit at making alliances and keeping them, let along thinking through the consequences of his actions. Like many others, I don’t believe for a moment Daenerys will just shrug her shoulders and defer to her nephew-lover’s…

Well, “potentially” wasn’t good enough was it? And really, there was no evidence that Jon had the slightest interest in listening to anyone - least of all Sansa - who advised him that he couldn’t take Winterfell with the forces at hand.

Uh, I think you’ve forgotten one very large and basic matter of fact here. Sansa is not the Lady of Winterfell and effectively the head of House Stark by Jon’s leave. And Jon would be very wise to never forget that his position in The North is even more precarious than Sansa’s. Pardon my French, but just because he’s…

“He seems like he might enjoy getting the opportunity to punch a cop in the face and I’d be happy to oblige him and give him that opportunity,”

Oh, but they can — anyone who thinks the whole Brexit project isn’t racist as fuck, and both major parties in the UK aren’t fully complicit in it, need to pull their heads out of their arses. Morris let the mask slip for a second. Most politicians don’t.

Oh, great - I’m so fucking over respectable racism because there is a barely-coded bigotry at the heart of the Brexit project that both the Conservative and Labour parties are fully complicit in. But it only becomes unacceptable when someone lets the mask slip for a second?

It’s a shame nobody was ready to write Erinn and Ensa Cosby a reality check on how women of colour who have been sexually harassed or abused face a heaping side order of racism with their rape culture. If they want to talk about “media lynching”, go ask Anita Hill, or Desiree Washington, or Alicia Machado or any other…

I don’t need to imagine what would happen if the positions had been reversed — Blow would be off the set and out of every CNN Rolodex by the end of the next ad break.

And could you imagine the shit storm if Blow, or any other man of colour, laid hands on McEnany (or any white woman) while cooing about how she needed to check her “sinister tendencies”?

Seriously, what the fuck? It would take zero imagination to picture how McEnany would (rightly) react if any man put his hands on her while cooing about how she needed to check her “sinister tendencies” like she was a damn child. Good on Blow for reading this bullshit, HARD.

I’ve got a modest suggestion for Americans who want to put their time and money where their mouths are where diversity is concerned.

And even if there wasn’t, making what could potentially be a huge years-long commitment is a very different beast. I’m reminded of the crazy rumours going around why Jennifer Ehle dropped out of Game of Thrones. She rebutted them with what strikes me as a perfectly sound reason — she’d given birth to her second child…

Or maybe just take what she damn says at face value —she didn’t sign up for an opened commitment to a television series. You don’t have to “hate TV’ to make a perfectly reasonable decision that’s not for you.

And as many have noted, this work of “investigative journalism” was published in the weekly cultural suppliment of financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (very roughly the Italian equivalent of the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times),as if Ferrante was a corrupt politician or an industrialist on the take from the…

Oh, I think it has everything to do with Ferrante being a woman — a woman writer who doesn’t play the game the way male journalists, critics and academics think she should, and doesn’t even try to sugar-coat her disdain for it. A woman, who to add insult to injury, has become an international success with four novels…

If LeBlanc was as big a he-diva as The Sun would have us believe, Chris Evans couldn’t be fired - he’d have been fed to the crew with some fava beans and a nice Chianti long before now.