My father's French, ergo I am French.

I was a nanny in France for a year.

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Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror

Medival People by Michael Prestwhich and The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green that gives a "regular person" view of that conflict.

Love, love, love the Doomsday Book! I would love to see a movie version.

I love Willis, and To Say Nothing of the Dog is one of my favorites, but I'd be afraid of how much of the humour would translate to the big (or small) screen. You'd have to devise an elegant way to explain the time-travelling paradoxes to the audience, which would be tricky. Ditto Doomsday Book. So much history to…

Jack Finney's "Time & Again."

Yes, yes—Connie Willis for sure. I think "Blackout" or "Firewatch" would probably be the first choice but any of them would be fine. But as much as I'd like to see "To Say Nothing of the Dog" I know it would, at the least, have to be a mini-series and would probably be best if it remained as only a book.

Oh, I see. That makes perfect sense. By that logic, there's no such thing as murder either, since everyone's going to die anyway, right? Killing a person before their own natural death is just accelerating something that would have happened anyway. :)

Because rear-ending was not intentional or malicious (I hope... you're not a road rager, right?). Swatting definitely is intentional and very malicious. The crime should rest on the swatter's head.

It could be. If you're DUI at the time of the accident and the pile up behind you results in death you could be charged with under a state's felony murder statute if they have one.

It is a singular pronoun, and using it as such makes you sound like a normal person. English needs a gender-neutral singular pronoun, and guess what? In everyday usage, WE ALREADY HAVE ONE. You're not just gonna be able to make up some new pronoun and force everyone to use it; the evolution of language happens…

Its only a matter of time before someone is killed because of this.

"They" in the context of a singular gender-neutral pronoun works perfectly well, is easily understandable, and most important of all, it's pronounceable.

I would pay good money to watch one of those assholes crying for his mommy when the judge gives him 20 years in federal prison.

All swatters should be charged with attempted murder.

Its been interesting to watch the shift in deniers from "Its not happening, SHUT UP!" to "Ok, so, its happening, but it's not our fault... oh, it is? Well there's nothing we can do about it now, so SHUT UP!"

Oh agreed — that was horrible. I forgot about that. But still, I stand by the point majority of critiques about the stupid stuff she's done lately focuses less on the stupid action and more on age/appearance etc. The objectionable stuff she's put on Instagram lately also seem to me to be coming from a new substance…

Sorry, but no. Not since I saw her n-word tweet.