I think it depends on the part of NC you go. Parts of the NC "Research Triangle" are very very progressive. Carrboro had an openly gay mayor in the 1990s. For the rest of the South Atlanta is, I've heard, pretty pro-LGBT. Houston, or was it Dallas, was one of the first major cities with a lesbian mayor. Although Texas…

Did you really need that much space?

Glad the kid's alright, that's a relief. Although it sounds like Jade might need a bit of talking to. But that's their business.

If we're going to look back on short-lived 1990s shows that maybe prefigured things later or developed cult followings could include: Profit (too dark for me, but it seems like at the time even I thought it was maybe innovative), Freaks & Geeks (apparently technically started in 1999), and uhh The Critic maybe?

The Drew Carey Show really is underappreciated. It's like the working-class Friends, or something, and I liked it much better than that show. (I know some things in Friends imply they are not upper-class, but other than Phoebe come on.)

"Dark Matter 3x06 - Now that's more like it."

"As a semi-historian, it’s a message I appreciate, but at the auction,
Clair winning the painting for $11,000 doesn’t help me connect with the
message as much as I wanted to."

Nothing coming to mind. ZaiJian!

I thought Coady was dead too though I'm not sure if they said that.

Yeah. I think she maybe always had suspicions, but the Darwin thing seemed to confirm it for her.

I do think this show isn't as good as it once was and maybe started spinning a bit out of control last season or maybe the season before.

Yeah. It fits it was more the demand or wanting to be Victorian lady that was the "screw that" for her.

I was expecting her to at least try that, but maybe that's too cliche at this point. Or maybe she really is so non-violent, other than the Rachel eye thing, it would feel like a betrayal of her integrity.

Yeah of late when people do the "You can hardly tell they're the same actress" I don't feel it as much as I once did. But Cosima is pretty distinct and distinct from Rachel. So I did have a bit of "wow such different people" moments. (And they're both science-oriented, to one degree or other, even.)

Had kind of a haunted house feel at points. I am sort-of pleased I seem to be right that Westmoreland's story is baloney. Maybe he was actually born in 1947, like the actor, though that might make him too young to have been involved in the early 1960s. (Although maybe Susan and Coady got some high school boy, or an…

Yeah, that could fit. I mean except for the thing you mention.

The US isn't the UK. (And even then I think the Tories are allying with the DUP to stay in charge.)

I'm hesitant to touch this one, but she was set to win the Catholic vote in Summer. People even speculated why she was so appealing to Catholics. And then she did worse with even Hispanic Catholics than expected.

It's interesting how many Trump voters seem to think it's about what kind of dinner party you'd want to attend.

I'm not a Trump supporter at all, but I think it's a somewhat understandable concern.