At the vet, my once-male cats' genders are referred to on paperwork as "Neu" or various other abbreviations and terms for neutered. There's even a specific term for a neutered male as opposed to a spayed female. So perhaps that could be a compromise.

Good question, I don't know.

I've been wondering about this but was too busy doing real things to look it up on my own, so yes, I genuinely thank you, internet and AVC curators of same.

Maybe because they're still a going concern? Are they a going concern?

bee-gu-ree*

But I have no complaints, why would I switch?

AdBlock. Fun and free! Just don't use it on sites you really care about.

This is the first time I've heard the phrase "cape for." You hear something new and annoying every day, I guess!

*hair muss*

Then retroactively inserted into the ending of Jedi as a Force Ghost?

I don't buy it. No way it rises/sinks to the level of so-bad-it's-awesome. That used to happen, but it doesn't happen anymore.

I have not given you cause to believe that I do not know the history of Quisling. Just because you didn't understand why I chose the reference doesn't mean I didn't understand my own reference. Your dry lecturing is not appreciated.

It's not so much that it "makes sense" as that I understand the historical and cultural forces at play in France that produce neo-Nazis. Not so for the northernmost countries. Clearly there's an explanation specific to that sub-phenomenon, but it eludes me.

I used Quisling as my metaphor because he was Scandinavian, yes.

One of the strangest things to me about the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe (unlike the American alt-right, which I think has roots that are different in important ways, I'm comfortable referring to the European extreme right as neo-Nazis) is the existence of so many Scandinavian Quislings. What the hell is their deal?…

I'm a Dapper Dan man.

Hate fills you with joy?

To repeat what's already been said: yes, in the abstract, it's a problem, and it could be a problem in the particular, too. In *this* particular instance, though, I'm not bothered by it.

In a general sense, as a couple of you have phrased the issue ("conflicts of interest," "pressuring businesses to support… their family members"), sure, we can all agree those things are bad. But on a particular level, when it's a father supporting a daughter's business, I really don't have an actual problem with it.…

The thing is, if I'm being honest, I really don't see a problem on a moral level with a president supporting his daughter's business. Sure, we could use this to initiate some kind of legal proceedings, but I think it would play in the history books as a pretty weak pretense.