She always struck me as desperate. She wants so much and ultimately has so little power to influence things. Like a cornered animal whose claws happen to be made of wildfire.

I don’t love Cersei so much as get annoyed when people give passes to other characters who do similar stuff. Yeah she isn’t a great strategic planner but neither were Ned or Robert Baratheon or Robb Stark or Jon. Yeah she killed a bunch of variously innocent people to protect her family and/or avenge her honor but…

1) I think it was Sansa realizing that Jon is now a direct threat to Littlefinger’s ambition and so she needs to deal with him. So a) I guess.

(c) Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.

Why does Jaime get a pass?

I like the show generally but I think this season has been sloppy, for lack of a better word, in some respects. They’ve done really badly showing the passage of time and when events are taking place relative to one another. Having Varys on Dany’s ship in the final scene was just ridiculous.

I really don’t have a perfect solution because I am not a teacher and no longer a student. I think the survey idea is probably workable in some classrooms, particularly large ones like you get in college courses. Listing common triggers may work in other settings, particularly if it carries the disclaimer that the…

I don’t have a perfect answer for you and I rather doubt that there is one perfect system. However, the fact that it might be difficult to get a list of objectionable content should not be an excuse to ignore the very real harm done to some people. My personal experience was unpleasant but imagine being someone with…

I’m sorry about your father but how I handled losing my mom really doesn’t need to make sense to you. People deal with death in different ways. One of the ways I dealt with my mom dying was to throw myself into school work and having that “cancer-free” coping mechanism suddenly taken away was hard.

My senior year in high school we all took an American politics and government class. I really liked the class and was that obnoxious kid that would get involved in every discussion. One of the assigned readings was a book which included stories from the lives of people on various kinds of welfare and one of those…

You’re right. I shouldn’t have joined in on trampling over something important in the name of something important to me, personally. That’s stupid any time and particularly bad in the comments under an article on that very issue.

That is the best gif.

Am I the only one that saw that and thought “Ghostbusters”?

I am now glad I decided to read this article just so I could see your comment.

Here’s the thing: come November, people in the US are going to have a choice between the two major party candidates. Sure there may very well be third-party candidates who have better platforms as they relate to Honduras, Pakistan, and/or Syria. But those third-party candidates are all but guaranteed to lose. The way…

I will admit there was a lot of concentrated deep breathing before I wrote that comment. I have responded to similar sentiments in person in less... polite ways.

I wasn’t trying to imply that dressage was easy or that it shouldn’t be considered a sport. I mostly meant that dressage is in the Olympics and I bet DavidPuddy would consider it “niche” so whether they consider something “niche” is a bad standard for what is or is not a sport. I didn’t know dressage was one of the…

I’m going to try to be civil. I understand wanting people to vote with their principles and under other circumstances, I would applaud that. But the political system we have in place now punishes voting with your principles when those ideals fall outside the major parties. That’s reality. That means that voting for a…

That “people get more conservative as they age” thing is actually not supported by data. Sure the table above shows that older people are more conservative on this issue than younger people but keep in mind that the age groups in the poll are different people: there’s no reason to believe that the people in the 18-24…

Sure it’s not as widely popular as say football (either kind) but I imagine it has participation numbers on par with some of the more obscure Olympic sports. I say if dressage and “race walking” get to be considered sports then jousting should too.