I should say I actually have a mostly positive view of Mennonites. And this art teacher was not really a "burn in Hell" type. I think it was maybe even more like a cultural heritage thing for her. But I gathered it was a heritage that was firmly enough Protestant she was not just real thrilled with Catholic stuff, at…

I decided to try the pilot the other day, but I don't think it's for me. Not saying it's bad or anything, just maybe too glum or something for me. I don't know.

I think, and what I look up seems to confirm it, he was largely against secession because he didn't think it would work. That the North was too big and full of resources to lose and that they were determined to preserve the Union. So he figured they were doing something that was unlikely to succeed and would cause…

Antifa was a British group, it seems, who were kind of controversial. They received much praise, but also criticism for maybe being violent or overly militant. Although this thing in Texas doesn't seem to involve Britain.

Right's long "at their own" anyway. Some who got attacked as "RINOs" had a generally conservative voting record. Although it got down to 60 one year Richard Lugar's "Lifetime American Conservative Union" average was 76.65. That's similar to Zell Miller, but Miller was one of the most conservative Democrats of modern…

I'm guessing it's that they wanted to defend a monument to a slave holder.

Even if these people are Neo-Confederates, and I'm not actually sure they are (Houston owned slaves, but was critical of secession), it's not that surprising if they are rather different than an anti-Israel Neo-Nazi/mock-Neo-Nazi type.

Nihilism initially meant something like extreme skepticism and a rejection of absolutes. I'd say at least a few people here are, properly speaking, nihilists.

That maybe got a tad maudlin. Oh well.

Maybe related, maybe not. But the source is interesting as, in my experience, a fairly conservative Catholic publication.

Edwards leaving episode may have made me cry and I don't cry at TV ever. (It's not that I'm macho it's that I don't get that attached.) ER also had a weird emotional place for me because I watched it when I had the accident that almost killed me and at ICU many of the doctors talked about it a fair amount. It kind of…

I never much got into CSI, but it did maybe up the interest in shows having science as a key component. Maybe slightly blurring the line between procedurals and science fiction. (ER had plenty of medical science, but I don't think it was so much about cutting edge science as such. And there had been attempts at…

I hear you.

"Plus the quintessential scene of “Night Time is the Right Time” is after dinner."

Is the great Crow T. Robot going to do that joke every time?

Genius I guess. The show that got me to learn about the existence of, of all people, Clara Immerwahr (Haber). What a sad yet interesting story. (I think the feminist aspect of how you can interpret her life might appeal to some here.)

Well the Wikipedia article on them says it, "is a sweet onion of certain varieties, grown in a production area defined by law of the U.S. state of Georgia and by the United States Code of Federal Regulations."

If she stays married to him forever, to protect other women, that would be kind of sad. I mean in a way that would be very noble, but seems like a less drastic solution should be possible.

Neat.

I really doubt Kelly is "on the Left/Progressive/Liberal" side but my experience of watching her she is less bombastic and more willing to criticize sexism than many on Fox News were. She's maybe no more "on your side" than Nikki Haley is, but it makes some sense to me for both sides to recognize variety or gradients…