Seemingly the only reason for sophomores (no one can yet drive?!!) is to give the show 3 school years to work with.

She was the brains behind HIram Lodge's pyramid scheme…

He's pre-growth spurt in the comics—a late bloomer, and so short and slight as the other guys are coming off the fill-out growth spurt.

At least when Veronica Mars did this plot, it was interesting—because of the bonds formed by passion for a subject, because the teacher was a serial predator, because Veronica learned she could be wrong.

For both him and Grundy, there was a real absence of passion about music. It made the conversation really boring, if it's supposed to be a formative passion for each of them.

I kept wanting to pat Archie's little head while controlling my eyeroll, assure him that yes by golly one can play music and football in the same semester, and it doesn't take Dilton's brains for one of you to come up with a story about how you were out by the river and heard a loud bang but not because you were doing…

For 15 year olds, I think "not sexually interested in any gender" is always going to read with a big YET.

I really liked Veronica, who is so reminiscent of That Other Veronica. And her relationship with Betty, and even what little I saw of her relationship with her mom—it looked more layered than anything with Mrs. Cooper or Mr. Andrews. Also mild interest in Betty, Josie, and Jughead; okay with Gay Bestie.

I now get most of my political news from WaPo or 538. But my husband gets it listening to NPR when he commutes, and he said that he'd definitely gotten the impression from that source that "Russia accused of hacking the election" meant "hacking voting machines and altering results" and was really frustrated to…

I think there's a step where he turns his back on the cronies and blames them for everything and doesn't pardon them at all.

Except that now that he's in charge, the money must appear from somewhere—"everyone gets a flying unicorn that will sneeze hundred dollar bills" won't fly the way it would a year ago. And when "Mexico will pay for the wall" morphs into "you, Trump supporter, will pay 20% more at the store for stuff so we can have a…

Yes, I think he's about to discover that the technique that worked so well on contractors and the RNC gets blown off by other world governments.

The modern use of "stereotype" derives from post-WW1 intellectuals who were into small-d democratic ideals and appalled that the US and UK's propaganda ("Uncle Sam wants you!" and "Kirchner wants you!" respectively) had worked so incredibly well. Most citizens didn't have a nuanced understanding of world events, and…

A real problem, one I don't know how to solve, is that today the loudest proponents of every possible position on everything are trolls. So that's what people picture.

The Mexico thing was like a fable.

Apparently you can remotely suborn the camera.

If this were a movie, the person who orchestrated a mere 100,000 illegal votes cast by magical invisible unicorns in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania tears their hair out every time someone from the winning side suggests we really look into the invisible unicorn thing.

Maine's mosquitos would take that missile down.

It's like firing all the top people at State. Parts of this are likely to look like someone wandering around an office writing themselves post-it notes, sticking them on the furniture, and wondering why this hasn't translated into action.

I have been wondering just how well Kushner and Bannon get along.