There *are* actually some interesting stories in figure skating this year—not that anyone will see this because Jezebel has never let me out of the greys. But, anyway—in ice-dancing after a five-year medal drought, the Shibutanis got the silver after winning the U.S. championships the first time. They won the bronze…

Yes, but Papadakis and Cizeron really are beautiful to watch. Cizeron may be the best male ice dancer—ever—. She’s good, but he’s beyond that. Much as I love the Shibutanis and their free dance, I can’t begrudge Papadakis and Cizeron their win. They’re like nobody else.

Oops, yes, so it is. Well, there’s a problem in a nutshell—I don’t think you can think of these as separate works in that sense. Robb features heavily in book 3 because his story is coming to its climax and conclusion.

Hmmm, Robb’s been dead for a couple of books, but he’s still a bigger character than Arya?. Tyrion’s a much bigger character than Arya, though Arya’s the only POV character who’s been in all five books?

Yeah, but she hasn’t seen Sansa since book 1 and they didn’t like each other then. Wonder if they’ll ever like each other.

It’s one of those things the British do better—whimsical, funny. They won’t though as it’s an American series.

Read ‘em as an adult, have given them to other adults. They’re funny at more advanced ages.

Oh, I love these. They didn’t come out ‘til I was an adult, but they still cracked me up. I then gave them to friends. Then my friends and I had kids and I gave them to the kids. My only regret is that there aren’t more than four books and a short-story collection.

Uh, no, but thanks for playing. The Egyptians were not interesting in making themselves “white”—their literature indicates that they thought they were pretty damn cool the way they were. And why wouldn’t they? At that point, they were the ne plus ultra of the civilized world.

Not just Florida—they own sugar plantations all over the place—like C&H—which stood for California and Hawaii.

It’s always so interesting when Gizmodo readers meet i09 readers and easy to tell which is which.

Not whites—white *men*. After all, there is no POC running on the Democratic side, but there is a white woman.

Yep, what others said, welcome to the fold (okay, I’m in the grey here, so it doesn’t matter). Think of this as a beginning not an end. Vote in the midterms, vote in the down-ticket races and get some lefties in Congress and in the statehouses. One of them will have the magic to go to the Oval Office.

I wonder if they did it then—lady voters who couldn’t stomach doing a cross-vote for Kasich might have gone for Clinton after all, giving her that surprisingly big bump.

Yeah, yeah—I know, you won’t *vote* otherwise. Can’t tell you how many Bernie supporters have stated online that they won’t vote unless Bernie’s the nominee—so we Clinton supporters should vote for Bernie if we know what’s good for us.

Now that that’s not happening, we’re supposed to be nice to you so you’ll flutter…

No, there are ordinary people who behave that way—a couple of my real-life acquaintances became BernieBros. Really kind of awful. Did not help my view of Sanders. I favored Hillary in a desultory way (I’m in California, primary season is basically over by the time we vote.) and shared a mildly pro-Hillary article on…

After reading about Bernie’s campaign having zero women among its top ten paid employees, I don’t see anything shiny and new about how Bernie does things. Equity begins at home—Hillary pays and hires more equally. I think she’s a lot more likely to walk the walk re: POC and women because she’s one of the “othered” as…

Did you just get my response to your post? Because my response to your post happened in 2014, the day you posted.

Or the Wall falls down. No Wall, no watchers on the Wall So he has two ways out.

I (barely) made it through the first Shannara book—it’s terrible and derivative. So it’s not surprising that the series has some of the flaws of Brooks’ writing. I don’t think the issue is fantasy, per se, but *bad* fantasy. (And, yes, I know the later books are supposed to be better than the first book—but the first…