The whole Lord of Light plotline has never quite sat right with me. You have all these different religious factions in the show, and one of them is shown to be pretty explicitly correct in their beliefs. I would rather it have handled this stuff in a more ambiguous way. I agree with you that Beric is kind of a random…

Jon pretty much had the Karstarks and the Umbers over a barrel, and a chance to lock in the loyalty of the young, inexperienced leaders in those houses with a show of magnanimity. It was a choice between sending a message, or securing allies, and I think he clearly made the right call this time. I'm worried, though,…

I think Cersei and most of the other big players basically forgot Arya ever existed almost immediately after Ned's execution. I can't recall anyone ever mentioning her or wondering what happened to her. It wouldn't be out of the question to have a climactic scene where she finally confronts Cersei, only to have Cersei…

I liked that argument between Jon and Sansa because they were essentially both right. Yes, it's probably the smart move in the short term to lock down the loyalty of the errant houses and unite the North. Yes, Sansa is still right to see shades of the type of thinking that was ultimately Ned's and Robb's undoing. I'm…

It's apparently some great secret that you can get basically anything you want out of any company if you make a complaint through the proper channels and are cool about it when you do so. If she'd just called Delta once she landed and calmly explained that she's out $30 and had to ride in relative discomfort, they…

I agree that it's ultimately the server's job to make sure that what goes to the table is what they ordered, but I have a big problem with customers who take it upon themselves to play disciplinarian to customer service workers. If the experience is bad enough to complain about, they should just talk to a manager.

What did you think of it?

For my money, Night of the Living Dead is the best horror film ever made. For as many imitators as it had, nobody was ever able to top it.

Upvoted for Group X reference.

You're not explaining shit with this half-assed Intro to Philosophy "but how can you really know anything???" garbage. Make your point if you have one.

Primarily the unanimity of the intelligence community's opinion and the certainty with which it was asserted by intelligence officials, including James Comey under oath. Unless you believe that U.S. intelligence is devoid of any credibility, I think it would be unreasonable to completely disregard that allegation as…

Reasonably positive, yes.

Steve Buscemi as Trump. It's counterintuitive, but take a minute to think about it.

Remember when racist-ass Mellie Gibsons chopped up them Englands??

Either it's a fact or the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus is wrong.

Go easy on him, he only knows a few hundred English words.

In the emails, Goldstone mentions the Russian government's efforts to help the Trump campaign, and it seems from the context that Don Jr. was already supposed to know what he was talking about. The meeting with the Russian lawyer doesn't look good, but I don't think it's the most damning part of this whole affair.

Trump has taught me the distinction between lies and bullshit: lies are just statements that aren't true, but bullshit is a more complex brew of lies, truth, and semantics—a more strategic, calculated form of falsehood. Trump is a great liar, but an abysmal bullshitter. And I think it comes down to the fact that in…

My wife has told me that she wants me to move on if something ever happens to her, but with one catch: she has given me a short list of approved female acquaintances whom I have to try to seduce before I open up my search to the general population. Some of the folks on the list have an exception built in where I don't…

I dunno, I usually fall asleep immediately when I get on a plane, partly because I'm slightly drunk and high, which I'm sure these dudes were as well.