I agree. Littlefinger only planned for things that would ultimately benefit him alone. Cat and/or being Lord of the Vale. He hoped for the former. Once Cat is dead, he'll succumb to the latter. His plans yielded unexpected consequences, consequences he's happy to try to take advantage of, but they weren't…

I grow my own tomatoes, and I gotta say, that all that work and effort, and they honestly tasted the same as the super-expensive version of the tomato in the supermarket. You can't get the budget tomatoes.

Technically, blacks in this country were usually well fed on the plantations they worked on. Slaves are those that have no choice in who or what they work for or on. It makes little sense for slave-owners to starve their slaves to death.

Yep. I remember reading about how the Egyptians worshipped the Nile because it would frequently overflow and then make the surrounding land fertile. They were dependent on that happening.

This trip that you describe? Costs EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS.

Why is it that no matter how carefully I follow recipe instructions, while my food tastes pretty darn good, it never quite looks as beautiful as the picture?

Are all those letters to the editor in Bon Apetit real? The ones that go, "I had the best cocktail of my life in HoleInTheWall, Mississippi. Can you get me the recipe?"

I USED to have a garbage bag pantry, full of those shopping bags from the store. I'd use them for all my little trash cans around the house.

We were once lucky enough to get on-the-court tickets to a basketball game. Unheard of. My kid spent the entire time watching the jumbotron screen instead of the action right in front.

It's also because we blame parents for everything. My kid was playing in the backyard, supervised by me. A toddler. He fell, landed on his arm, and pulled the arm out of the elbow joint. A simple pop back in (at the ER) and he was good as new. But that didn't stop the physician from questioning how my kid fell in…

Even Sesame Street hasn't survived the media boom. Sesame Street has become much more about the quick-cuts, the imitation of music videos and media, and less and less about reading.

You know what? Maybe my boss isn't all that bad.

I don't understand Russian. What did he say?

There have been no good movies this year. NONE.

I find it amazing that we value these athletes at the winter games, and there IS something to admire. But all the things we reward and value ultimately mess their bodies up for the rest of their lives, for a fleeting moment of stardom when they're very, very young.

I know this flies contrary to what most people believe, but I believe that the best classroom teachers are this way as well. People like the idea of a teacher that becomes a surrogate parent and lets the child be emotional and the teacher show an emotional, demonstrative side, but that can be very problematic.

If those pilots hadn't been military, that flight would have gone down. Even so, I'm shocked.

That's very true. Numerous, numerous safety and crash testings have proven that children under two need their own seat. For some reason, though, airlines still don't make it mandatory. I guess they're scared of losing business, which cracks me up because when has the airline ever skimped on making people pay more?

Aerospace engineer working for an airline.

Okay. I must be stupid because I really felt like the Russian couple that danced Black Swan was better. Can someone explain to me why not?