"Listen again!"

To be "furious" because you can't give your grandchild a toy you got from a happy meal is like three kinds of red flags.

"He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him. Toward eight o'clock a pretty, capable-looking girl of twelve came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the baker's."

Thanks for bringing this series back into my mind. I remember thinking the first few books, which was surely as far as I ever got, were really cool. It was probably just the premise that hooked me, because I certainly can't remember anything that actually happened in them. Seeing this cover now and reading the…

Let's hope we hear that sentence many more times in the months to come.

"Mario would have listened and nodded along. He’d sign off with a thumbs-up and an “mm-hm!” and be off yet again, an empty vessel with nothing but a mission in his mind and fire in his heart."

Oops, I missed it. My final sentence still stands. :)

?! Looking this up right now.

4th of July viewing: A Few Good Men.

I think he's very unlikely to win the primary, but I dunno, if he got through I think the general would be frightfully close.

I wasn't aware of this word, but I have it in spades.

The Simpstooooons

Between this and Jurassic World, B- seems to be the AVC's floor for empty fan service sequels.

That David Faustino tag should probably carry an "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here" warning.

A gigantic asshole, maybe. Batshit nuts, definitely not.

Well, I think so! But well-meaning people can say no. Thomas Jefferson thought we should literally make a new Constitution every 20 years, which would be an interesting compromise solution.

Exactly. I think it would have been nice to achieve suffrage through a court decision with reference to the 14th amendment, but since it explicitly refers to "males" I guess another amendment was required. Plus, it's not the only time amendments were purposefully redundant. *cough*13,14,15*cough*

And for future historians, which, as a historian myself, I think is nice. :) Oliver Wendell Holmes's big decisions, both the ones we tend to like today and the ones we don't or have overturned, are also very easy to follow and usually speak in big-picture, socially-conscious terms.

Well said!

I don't think it's quite fair to lump Scalia, an intelligent legal scholar who just happens to subscribe to an absurd theory of constitutionalism, in with Thomas.