Canadians. Apparently, it’s really hard to get legal access to Game of Thrones without spending a lot of money.

Once upon a time there was a GOP senator from Mass. named Scott Brown. Schumer wanted Brown’s vote on, I believe, the ACA. Brown wouldn’t give it, even after Schumer said if he didn’t, he’d find the toughest Democratic candidate to run against him.

Schumer’s next call was to Elizabeth Warren and a few months later,…

Look, you do realize that the GOP couldn’t swing one Democratic vote on the ACA. Didn’t even come close. Trump didn’t try to threaten Joe Manchin the way he did his fellow GOP WV senator to get him into line.

Like a lot of people, you’re naive about the process and think you’re not.

You don’t have a clue about how this actually works, do you?

If you think the Handmaid’s Tale is a fantasy, then you haven’t been paying attention. Atwood wrote shortly after the Iranian Revolution sent women’s progress backwards by 50 years. She wrote it before the Taliban made women cover themselves and denied them the right to education, jobs, and self-determination in…

Yeah, I don’t know about the show. They may not bother doing the magic horn business that Martin seems to have set up. The books have a *lot* more plot lines than the show. (With the biggest deviation being the Dorne storyline. If you don’t like it, it really is on the showrunners.)

And, yes, the dragon control horn…

But are you claiming that Handmaid’s Tale has encouraged that reality? Because I don’t see that. And unless you can make that argument, your logic doesn’t fly here.

Yeah, the Handmaid’s Tale was written as a warning about how quickly progress can be ripped away from women—since Atwood saw what had happened in Iran. Handmaid’s Tale pretty much represents the reality of what happened to women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Pulliam-Moore gives it a quick pass without seeming to…

In the books, it’s pretty clear that the Wall is made and maintained by heavy-duty magic. It’s also clear that there’s possibly a horn that can bring it down, though probably not the one people think. I expect the wrong horn (or something) will get blown for an entirely different reason.

Basically, the Wall needs to…

“as good as” isn’t the same as poison. But I do worry about Arya’s fate—the very early comment by Jon Snow about her having needle clutched in her cold hands at the end of winter.

The Wall’s coming down. It has plot point written all over it—particularly in the books. It exists to come down.

I’m assuming the Wall falls at some point. No Wall, no Night’s Watch.

In fact, my guess is that the Wall falls at the end of the season and, if Martin ever gets it written, near the end of Winds of Winter—thanks indirectly to Euron—though I think a lot of Martin’s storyline there is already left out.

Wow, did you really spend half your post whining about people calling you a “BernieBro”? Really? Get over yourself. Your feelings aren’t that damn important.

This is one of the things, by the way, that bothers me and other middle-aged voters about the Bernie ground—it’s all about you.

No, it’s not. And, by the way, an…

The town’s okay. Texas, not so much. Just got through a long article on Texas politics—now there’s your horror story.

Yep. It’s her who’s actually playing “What’s Going On?” and it’s her who’s watching the concert on Ecstasy which has everyone experiencing their own birth.

I’m pretty sure that if the show had lasted, she would have given birth to a newe cluster. She’d be the new Angelica.

Some old review of the show (A.V. Club…

It’s not a PR move if they’re actually spending money on the finale. And it’s good PR *because* there was an outcry. No one’s talking about bringing back the canceled hip-hop one so that Netflix looks good to the Black community because no one cares about the show.

Scruples was awesome—raunchy Cinderella. Didn’t care for the other Krantzes, but in Scruples, she just sort of hit all the sweet spots without getting too sordid the way she did later.

And you know this because? Again, they canceled the other three with no finale. No finale scheduled with Sense8 either until the fan complaints. At which point Netflix probably figured they’d have a shot at recouping costs if they gave the series a finish so that it would continue to attract a small, but devoted cult…

She actually does—she’s the one who gets them in tune with one another, so that they can sync up. Future mother of a psyllium. Also, it’s implied that Wolfgang cracks that safe because he taps into her musicality and can hear the different pitches of the tumblers.

I understand her place in the group, but she has that…

Didn’t Lily identify as gender-fluid or nonbinary. I just say The Wachowskis—covers all eras and permutations.