ITA. She’s not that different from every military leader ever IRL, I don’t think (except dragons).

I’m Team Dany over Jon but I can see that Sansa would probably be a better ruler than either. Not imperious like Dany but very suspicious of others’ motivations, which makes her better than Jon.

I mean...she doesn’t WANT to do it. Her mentality is that she’s being forced to. Which doesn’t make her that different from any military leader ever (I’m not saying it’s right; just saying it doesn’t make her uniquely monstrous).

I’m just talking about my experience listening to her/reading her. She makes taking her kids to the dentist sound like the Bataan Death March. And she does this all the time, with everything. It’s exhausting, which is why I’ve largely cut out reading or listening to her, and when I do listen to her we (my sister and…

I wondered if that was the point of last night’s episode (and will continue to be the point for the next two episodes). That this is not as simple as “good vs. evil.” It’s easy to forget that the “good” characters are pretty flawed, because the evil characters by and large have been pretty evil. Cersei does have more…

I know! He should know better as an actual upper-crust Brit. 

I’ll speak up as someone who went from liking Dooce/Armstrong to disliking her. I wasn’t on her blog at the beginning, but pretty early on, and I found her funny, entertaining, and fairly relatable, though we don’t have a lot in common besides being women. I read her blog daily for years, and when the “haters” started…

Because he’s crazy, mean and possibly altered on substances. His proud redneck shtick necessitates that he “protect his family” by whatever means he feels are necessary. Any sane person could tell you that there are a million other ways this could have been handled. He just wanted to kill the dog to feel like a man.

That rug should be embarrassing for the guy in the picture.

That’s why most times I think it’s nature+nurture. Sometimes one more than the other, but usually a combination. I will say that I expect someone who grows up in very shitty circumstances to be fucked up in ways that may or may not involve hurting others. I know plenty of people overcome abuse and neglect but I don’t…

I thought the “reality-tv” themed Dirtbag might cover Teen Mom’s David Eason shooting his wife Jenelle’s puppy because it nipped at their toddler (it makes PuppyGate look like a tiptoe through the tulips; I hate David Eason so much).

I’m so weirded out by the glass door entrance to her home that seems more fitting for the local Wells Fargo.

Agreed. Jax can fake not being a monster for the length of a scene in which he evinces concern over Brittany’s stomach troubles, but the minute he’s challenged, all his ego and grossness come pouring out (paraphrase, “I’m always going to be #1", something you really want to hear your daughter’s potential life-mate say…

The weird thing about that is that he’s owed the money for a long time, right? And they seemed okay before, fairly recently? So did he think Randall was broke all this time? It seems like the stuff on the show Lala said about PJs and Range Rovers and “Rand” paying her rent may have set Fofty off, but I think it’s just…

And Varys! I forgot him. Though I think (hope) Varys will make it through. He’s a survivor.

Yeah, Team No One - they’re all garbage people. I used to kind of like Lala but her ego has gotten out of control and if you want to be a golddigger, fine, but a little discretion would be nice. The blaccent and the faux-tough girl thing from a middle class white girl from Utah is off-putting, to say the least.

I said something similar above (sort of). I felt like the white walker/NK story was clearly set up to resolve in this episode so the last three could actually be about the “game of thrones” with Cersei/Dany/Jon/whoever else they want to throw in there. That’s a bigger, more important and more interesting story to me,…

The thing is, it seemed like a no-brainer that the battle for Winterfell was going to be a one-off episode that ended in the Night King being defeated. I think it would have been hard to wrap up the last three episodes with the Good Guys having to deal with *both* the Night King and Cersei, et al. Logistically I think…

I dunno, maybe it’s a millennial social media thing (though by the definition I’ve read Omar is at the absolute outer edge of millennialdom), but her Twitter response to McCain seems rather flip. Given that she is a politician and that the central story here is about people being murdered, I think a more politic…

I hadn’t thought about it, but you’re right. I mean, there may have been steps that we’re unaware of but getting up, taking baby to mother, waiting and putting baby back to bed is less work than getting up, making formula, feeding baby and putting baby back to bed.