I'm always far more invested in fictional friendship than romance, where I tend to be thinking "Hurry up and have a plot."

I loved the dark blue number. It even had some cleavage (one of those real-world come on no one does this details that usually annoy me) but looked cool and professional.

I hadn't thought of that until now but—Yeah, they were hours away from learning that memory loss ISN'T a permanent side effect, no matter what he said. His confession makes far more sense in that light—it's like his quickly signing all his dad's fortune back, with no seeming emotional oof at the financial loss.

Formidable Peyton is 100 times more interesting than sappy Peyton.

I wouldn't like that—the show has shown enough of the sucky side of zombie-ism that some people just choosing to need a new dead brain once a week really wouldn't land.

I thought "Peyton is the best" at that line.

In addition, I think it's perfectly rational to reason: "Extra people is emotionally very complicated, so if I want to try that, I probably need to check it off before I'm in a relationship that I want to be permanent." (Also why I think it's fine say "Yes I tried X in the past, and that's part of why I know I don't…

I thought it was fair to point out that a one-off "I'd be okay with it" might not be enough reason to plunge into emotionally wracking whirlpools.

It's not that unusual for 'extra people as an abstraction' to sound okay, and then 'extra people as a reality' to hit all sorts of deep emotional places people didn't expect, because they hadn't tried it in practice until then. All genders, all orientations, with "Straight guy suggests open relationship, is crushed…

I agree that he's a creep who disregards boundaries, but this is where you need targets to risk creating social awkwardness by saying no, and walking away if that doesn't shut it down. ("Return the awkward to sender" is Captain Awkward's useful concept.) We don't live in an ideal world where people uniformly follow…

Using the backlash over the emails to deflect Democrat criticism.

I sincerely believe he is unprepared for the reaction to everything he's done as president.

The first 100 days were just warming up. The second 100 days are going to be epic.

So far, his strategy for most posts has been to demand the current holder resign, then just not bother nominating a replacement. He could go that way.

I do want to read a smart historian's account of Comey's actions in another decade or so.

Just in terms of things dying down before elections. "Trump? Who? Oh, that guy—old news."

If there is nothing to the Russia stuff, the White House consistently does all they can to suggest the opposite. It's a lot of effort to distract and cover up nothing.

Early on it seemed like the FBI had a strong pro-Trump contingent, while the CIA didn't like him. (So it was the CIA + the national parks + liberals, with Teen Vogue as their spokesjournal.) Though I gather firing Comey has wiped out much of this contingent in the FBI.

In fairness, Nixon carried out his vindictive firings when he was on the verge of being impeached, while Trump is seemingly not near being removed from office. He just wants to be wacky and unpredictable, and keep any allies as off-balance as his enemies.

As 538 noted, the justification for the firing is a new form of trolling. No one, on any side, thinks this is the reason.