Personally, my instinct was to think about my two daughters, 23 and 19, how much I love them - and how we’ve all thoroughly enjoyed “300" since they were little kids. I’ve never been on the Snyder-hate geek-wagon, always been inclined to defend him... if somewhat sheepishly and self-consciously. (I think he’s a…

It’s interesting- anywhere you find “Maher sucks” from a decade ago or earlier, you can safely assume a conservative wrote it (most likely due to his outspoken hatred of religion). Nowadays, the likelihood is it was written by a liberal, because he doesn’t dogmatically embrace every notion and nuance modern liberalism…

What elected position anywhere in the world isn’t a popularity contest? The candidate people like the most (i.e. hate the least) wins, unless of course it’s a rigged 3rd world deal. Not that weird, and not just an American phenomenon, as cool as it is to single out America for hatred whenever possible.

Good point. Straw Hat simply paraphrased what Luke actually said.

(I was being sarcastic. Telegraphs didn’t exist in 1816. A rudimentary predecessor, semaphore lines, existed in Europe, yeah. But if that counts as the “telegraph", so do smoke signals. Novak is an idiot.)

I agree with all of that, but I still gotta give Novak the win for pointing out that the world was full of, like, totally existing telegraphs in 1816. The guy obviously knows what he’s talking about.

Telegraphs in 1816?

Really liked those uniforms, for the 2 reasons you mentioned. (By contrast, seasons 1 & 2 were heinous — bizarre that it took two seasons to figure out they needed collars.) My problem with them has always been the just-for-flair off-center “hilltop silhouette” design at the bottom. Not entirely sure why. All uniforms…