But they had him insist on the hood anyway, so the issue here is that Jesse played ball when he didn't have to.

Counterpoint: Tall in the Saddle. Ennis almost lost me with that one.

The driver, who wore earphones, may have been given orders not to take the car anywhere unless the passenger wore a hood and not to accept any new orders from Starr after the mission began. It would have been better for the show to have Starr explain this to Custer, just to demonstrate to the audience that he's…

He knows he's got a microphone, right?

It's not part of the historical county of Flanders

The historical purist in me is mortified that Antwerp is now considered a Flemish city.

Given the show we're dealing with, I fail to be appropriately shocked by this. GOT gave us fraternal incest (resulting in children, even) in the very premiere and fraternal rape (which Cersei sure seems to have gotten over) seasons later. Jon and Dany don't know they're related by blood, have only met each other a few…

Puff the magic dragon.

Sure. And when I get on a train, it's the scenery that starts moving.

Oops!

I lie awake at night thinking about it. Then it's daytime and I just have to observe the sun.

Big Ball is pushing the spherical Earth lie !!1!

Well, not exactly. We don't know for sure what the uneducated (who made up the overwhelming majority of the population) thought. And there are many parts of the world that were not influenced by Ancient Greek astronomy for centuries or millennia. Mainstream Chinese thinking held the Earth to be flat until the 17th…

You done spamming?

This seems too much even from this crowd. Especially after The Mooch did basically the same thing not long ago. I'm not saying it would be a particularly brilliant or complex play. I'm just saying it would be deliberate.

I have trouble believing that Bannon blabbed about this stuff without expecting it to go public. I think he's playing a game here. Maybe he's trying to undermine some rival or some policy he disagrees with. Maybe he's reminding his boss of how much damage he can do if fired. Maybe he expects to be fired anyway and…

John Pemberston

Longstreet's about the furthest I can see this going.

He'll certainly be interesting in soliciting donations to build a presidential library. Some of that money may even end up being used as advertised!

Of the all the adult white Southerners alive in 1860-65, the only ones worth honoring are those who fought against the Confederacy, or at least took active steps to avoid fighting for it. Build statues for the Confederate deserters and draft-dodgers. Even that prick Andrew Johnson deserves more praise than Robert E.…