You'll note that none of the monuments in question are in graveyards. The one a block away from my home is in a public park, in a historic district in the city filled with other monuments to George Washington and Lafayette among others.

Been posting "Good Morning, Baltimore" to every last corner of Facebook I could this morning.

Stiff breeze, we're all counting on you. It's up to you now.

I hate how many times I've repeated that prayer in the past year. Ugh.

There's plenty of danger in the complacent assumption that Nazis and fascists don't undergo their own transformative evolution over time. Like any virus, they persist by adapting.

On a tangential note - anyone know what Omarosa Manigault's been up to since the NABL?

True to form, it looks like the House GOP is doing their damnedest to just keep their heads down:

Cynical, but true.

I suppose there's no glory in establishing a moral highground against Nazis.

Since this weekend, I've been struggling to see past the obvious alt-right trolls emerging from the woodwork on social media to try and get a sense of how the Great Silent Center-Right has been taking this. I'm loathe to imagine the kinds of mind-boggling apologia stewing amidst the great mass of "I'm not racist, but…"…

Vandalized:

It's a lot of puzzle pieces to put together, but adding Jon's legitimacy to his Targaryen lineage is the kind of thing that unites pretty much all the threads of the show - from contention for the Iron Throne, to unifying Westeros to fend off the Walkers.

That's a good catch. It seems extra notable, given that Maester Ebrose went to such effort to point out that Sam yet hadn't been informed of Randyll and Dickon's crispiness.

Is it clear the Maester even knew she was pregnant? If they managed to conceal it from him - with both Rhaegar and Lyanna dead, one could imagine he'd decided there was no utility in piping up about their secret marriage.

I'm going to append an asterisk here. Not because I think you're fundamentally wrong, or coming at it from an inappropriate angle at all.

We can rely on socialized national healthcare systems for large populational cohort studies. As such, for >215000 births, supporting "Advanced maternal age is associated with a range of adverse pregnancy outcomes."

Y'all are right, not uncommon. Just greater risks.

Modern times, sure.

Well, you don't.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that even among the resources available to the Queen, medieval-grade medicine makes her current fertility questionable at best. To say nothing of her ability to carry a healthy baby to term.