I was all set to inquire what screen depictions you thought were closer than not. So that answer is a pleasant surprise.

if people voted trump simply to spite people they didn't like, that's pretty dumb.

I'll make sure to ask the people I know unfortunate enough to be from Florida.

While you're not incorrect, that's also a timeframe substantially later than I posited up top. A year-and-a-half after 9/11 seems to have been sufficient time for a number of people - on both the Right, but moreso on the Left to pose hard, incisive, pointed questions about the pragmatics and ethics of the War or…

I've always taken it as a long-standing rebuke to the stigma that many hetero folks have about even the ideation of gay male sex. I don't disagree that it project multiple reads, but even as a general Dan-defender, I'd wager it veers more misogynistic than hetero-phobic.

It's a deep oversimplification to fall back to the old trope that Republicans are strongarm war-hawks, and Democrats are diplomacy-oriented pacifists, even if there's just a nugget of truth underlying those prejudices.

It does seem odd, given that he's usually not medicine or science averse, and he can often find himself writing for or talking to a selectively medicine- and/or science-averse audience.

Speaking only for my own experience, I think of exercise as more of a maintenance thing rather than an active intervention in an acute episode. It's a little like making sure the plants stay watered - if they've started to wilt or turn brown, it may be too late.

I remember immediately after 9/11, some very liberal friends (further left than me, in all truth), contemplated enlisting in anticipation of whatever military engagement we were bound to commit to in response to the attacks. We're talking about a guy who was getting a writing MFA ferchrissakes.

Momofuku is readily one of my favorites. Specifically, the way it uses food culture to capture the evolution of Asian American identity. There's a fascinating undercurrent throughout the book of the interface of food tradition and modernity that I find unequalled in a lot of other contemporary food writing.

I'm similarly into moderate spice, but I find that surprising. I've always found canned chipotle to fall well into the milder side of moderate heat for me.

I was gifted his eponymous debut book the other year by one of my students. I've not previously encountered Yotam's work - but goddamn if that book didn't sell me on the specific intersectionality of his food.

You're certainly not wrong.

Do we have any indication that Qyburn's coopted Varys' spy network outside of Kings' Landing, though?

I went and tried making wings for the first time myself the other week. Went fried, followed by a brief oven bake on a wire rack to assist with the post-fry drying process. Made my own sauce, but with no Frank's Red Hot at my smallish neighborhood grocery store, went with Louisiana Crystal as a substitute.

We can imagine that perhaps the "modern" rationale for the Wall's existence is to contain the Wildlings and Free Folk.

I still sense that the real challenge is succinctly communicating just WTF a Three-Eyed Raven is.

I'm pitching a spin-off of Olenna and Lyanna Mormont in a road-trip comedy.

That sounds more like a tactical judgment to me, than a strategic one.

I suppose there's still time enough for Sam to unearth some arcane, forgotten vulnerability of the White Walkers and their wight army hiding deep within the dusty tomes of the Citadel. We've already crammed in quite a bit of reversal of fortune this season, and we're only three episodes in.