This is actually a crazy high voter turnout number for a special election. 18% is more in line with this sort of election in Alabama and surrounding states.

10. Game of Thrones

He’s a trash person who encourages trash behavior from his dancers.

Yes, in a place where Republicans outnumber Democrats, Republicans will win a statewide election. There’s literally nothing that could have stopped this short of a black woman or a pro-life man running as a Republican there (which is hard to imagine given that Luther Strange wasn’t quite racist or Christo-fascist…

Confirming Jude Law’s nom is the only reason I clicked in this article. If he hadn’t been there—and I wasn’t so lazy and law-abiding—there would have been blood in the streets. That performance was goddamn magic.

Yeah, it be nice but in the absence of a complete re-design of our entire elctoraloral system that’s not an option. You can fight like hell for your gal/guy in the primaries (and at all levels of government) and then you vote on the basis of those results. You know that multi-party parliamentary systems don’t allow…

Because that’s life. Even if we had a multiparty system, we would still have to make choices and there’s very little chance that the heads of the four to eight political parties would magically align with all of your political ideals and personality preferences.

My secretary, a life-long democratic supporter and organizer in her sixties, told me her husband and son refused to vote because they didn’t think it was “appropriate” for a woman to weild so much power. She looked stricken for weeks.

With you! I tried. I really did. But seriously, that song above sounded like a seven minute retread of down-beat, New Jersey-era Bon Jovi.

I would be fine with, “I choose roles on the basis of the quality of the script and not on the personal histories of the people I’ll be working with.” Why is that so hard?!

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I’ll be honest...Rory isn’t written “smart” because ASP and her husband aren’t that smart. This is the same reason we are told how smart Paris is but we doen’t actually see or hear her being smart. Hell, in the upcoming season in “We’ve got magic to do” Paris talks about the Russian revolution overthrowing the…

“But for the first time, Lorelai is faced with disagreeing with her own daughter’s decisions...” Um...Lorelai just condemned Rory for sleeping with Dean and previously took issue with Rory for kissing Jess while she was dating Dean and for dating Jess after her and Dean broke up.  

Hasn’t every person sometime between the ages of 16 and 20 been utterly devastated by unrequited love? This seems like a pretty universal experience. I don’t think it has anything to do with being prepared for setbacks. It just sucks for everyone.  

Lane has her first drink in season 3 episode 19 Keg! Max! when she gets drunk at the house party her band is playing at, calls Mrs. Kim, and tells her she’s dating Dave and playing drums in a band.

I tried the NPR cranberry horseradish recipe a couple of years ago when Thanksgiving fell on Hanukkah. We served it with Latkes and it was amazing. https://www.npr.org/2006/11/23/4176014/mama-stambergs-cranberry-relish-recipe

Juice of one orange, some zest, and white wine with just a bit of fresh ginger for heat. It’s crack.

I have college students who were raised in deeply religious households (I’m talking about Harry Potter bans and the Beach Boys records being burned) and they are not sexual prudes. It was usually the pleasure and banality of sex that made them question their faith. Not to say it doesn’t happen, but Lane’s celibacy…

There’s one on my campus and it makes passing by the food court a nauseating experience.

None of those chains were founded in the same city. Comparing all of Southern California to one city with under half a million residents is pretty absurd.