Fans gravitate towards communities for the validation of their own thoughts and feelings, which turns into an echo chamber of negativity. It also feeds a malignant sense of entitlement. I can’t stand most communities that I fundamentally agree with because of this dynamic. It’s super unhealthy. Also nobody can just be…

A great documentary on the Gilded Age is the PBS American Experience episode, The Gilded Age. You can watch the full episode on Youtube. Fwiw American Experience is just overall an excellent watch. Fair warning: there are 34 seasons of American Experience so you could go down a rabbit hole there and not surface for…

She went to Mandyville.

Fucking L.A. sheriff deputies. I mean the L.A. Sheriff’s Dept is known for being just horrible, but selling pictures of Kobe’s dead body is really low even for them.

Well yeah there’s that. FWIW I was 21 when Watergate happened. Watching that unfold in real time was really something else. At least back then, when push came to shove, Republicans did place country and party above a bad president.

That’s you, but you cannot speak for everyone. There are plenty of vital women in their 50s. When I hit 50 I had a 5 year old (that I gave birth to when I was 45), and I was working as a nurse while training for cardiovascular ICU nursing.

Well you’re completely wrong on #1, but spot on with #2. Two things Nixon should stay out of: politics and the writers’ room.*

Don’t forget also the world’s unfunniest comic.

No I think it’s just you.

ABC was always the best at that kind of thing — look at Wide World of Sports. NBC just never got that Americans want to see all kinds of athletes, it being kind of the point of the Olympics.

Russian doping is definitely a thing, but back in the day East Germany was just down right flagrant about doping, and they always got away with it. It was just maddening.

You should check out how well her coach’s previous champion skaters have done. Oh wait I can tell you. They all retired in their early 20s due to injuries. Coach is kind of a monster who just rips through these young girls.

That’s cool. Idk why but I just never think of the Criterion Channel.

To be fair, when I read the headline my first thought was, out of all the talented actors who need work, they had to pick that asshole? I was actually glad when I read the article and it pointed out what an asshole Rapaport is. Honestly there’s no real reason for casting him; it’s not like he’s a huge audience draw.

Give them another Olympics or two and they may get it right.

Joanna Gaines has a lot to answer for.

The Jessica Chastain one is streaming on HBO Max

Edith had a child post WWI in the twenties, which was vastly different from even the Edwardian era, let alone the 1880s. Plus she didn’t get caught. I imagine there were more than a few “wards” being raised by seemingly generous upper class families. In other cases the woman went away for awhile for a plausible reason…

Their son was born before they were married, which makes him a bastard back in an age when being a bastard was a terrible stigma. It had all kinds of repercussions on the child including legal. In some situations a bastard couldn’t inherit their father’s estate. The post birth marriage didn’t alter the child’s bastard…

If you weren’t wealthy you had no time to be bored. Almost everything to do with maintaining a home and family was labor intensive, and even people who were considered “on the poorer side” had a servant or two to help.