Seriously, I haven't read Salon since 2003.

So what you're saying is that she's tolerant of scorpions and saints, and nothing in between? That's a bit harsh, even by my puritanical standards.

Mmm, tail end of The Warrior's Apprentice, when Ivan made him see that his little jaunt as a mercenary captain could be seen as the recruiting of a private army by Barrayaran terms.

For it to be an actual laundering scheme, Bishop would have to be putting the money to non-electoral purposes. It might be interesting if he's starting to move into media investments. There's a lot of rank desperation out there in media-world, and an embattled drug lord is nothing if he isn't in epic need of…

Now I've got that ska cover of that Neil Diamond song playing in my head…

"Belligerently indulgent". That's it exactly, the whole "don't you judge me or my hellspawn" attitude.

Nah, his whole schtick was "Reverse Clark Kent". His hat was his eyeglasses. And all the serious American villains in Breaking Bad followed Miles Vorkosigan's dictum: I don't want all the marbles. I don't want any of the marbles. It's death for me to be caught with marbles in my possession!

There's the Right, and then there's the Cook County "right". I dunno about that latter one. Also, the LIV "right" can be as myopic as the LIV left or the LIV unclassifiable schlubs. A moment of TV grace can be worth a month's worth of opinion-page furor that nobody reads. Hey, at least TGW isn't set in the world…

We don't know if he's had anything bad happen to him. Hopefully for the character that business about unprotected sex doesn't come back to his regret, although it seems a bit too… tragic-gay stereotype for the usual TGW plot development.

I don't know, in my personal experience, actual proximity to the practice of abortion killed my disinterested pro-choice stance dead… it's one of those things where if you don't believe a fetus is a child, it's easy to maintain a bien-pensant box-checking approval of "choice" in theory, but the actual practice proves…

How is that not okay? That was crap aimed *at* her, not about her. Everytime Alicia's gone into a moral panic about Grace, it turns out to be something churchy and harmless. Whereas Zach is proving to be his father's son… except weaker.

Yeah, six heretics burned during his chancellorship according to Foxe, and although there's controversy about whether the torture that preceded the burnings was real or Foxe's enhancements to the truth, nobody seriously argues about the public burnings. Since I've been both raised very low-church, and a bit of a …

"Flamed". Unfortunate, or possibly pitch-black comedic, way to describe a man who actually had heretics burned at the stake? Not to mention his past as Merton's hatchet-man…

Alicia upon learning her son knocked up a girlfriend and her brother is sleeping with someone who makes "barebacked gay porn", you can just see her steaming that "nobody uses protection anymore!" Ironically, since I guess Zach was an accident?

Ooh.

It occurs to me that Zach's abortion was also a massive class decorum violation for Alicia. She's very careful to keep up appearances and maintain her dignity and the dignity of her family, and allowing things to come to a surreptitious abortion is just completely and utterly low-class. Like most gentry liberals,…

The Reagans on Blue Bloods - male and female - *always* have a tumbler full of whiskey after-hours, and plenty of anti-heroes and villains can be seen drinking at home. But in general, wine and whiskey are gendered in television.

I'm willing to bet, even if the Bishop scenario goes postal, that she wouldn't even crack the top ten. How many SAs were wholly owned by Capone or the Outfit over the years?

Alicia was Bishop-dirty before she decided to run, this is just the bag of shit breaking as she tries to get rid of it. It's just all over her hands now, instead of just steaming in a pocket.

It occurred to me while the show was running, but the ages don't line up. She'd have to be older than Zack, which would put it before Peter was married.