And Rocket Man is actually a pretty great nickname. If someone decided to call me Rocket Man, despite my possessing zero rocket related attributes, I would be ok with that.

In fact, Kim Jong-Un should just decree that his nickname should be Rocket Man, or whatever the equivalent is in Korean.

Glad someone mentioned this. The destruction is dramatic, but a lot of these native plants are fast-growing and can recover fairly quickly from these storms as they have for millennia.

That doesn’t mean that the impact of various human elements like fertilizer spills etc won’t make things difficult, but on their own…

Yeah, Clinton was totally boned by the media and the FBI. Yeah, she wasn’t the best candidate in this political climate (though that is the sort of thing that is way more clear in hindsight). But there is no way the Democrats will nominate her again. To imply that doing so a serious consideration might be the dumbest…

The joke that no one remembers the Rams in LA in 2016 is a good one, and totally worth the editorial mistake.

Signed, a former St. Louis Rams fan.

I dunno. I remember 2006 feeling awful mostly because US fans came out of ‘02 feeling like the team had really made progress. And then the losses to Czech Republic and Ghana really put us in our place again. It wasn’t the worst performance, but it was super disappointing.

Losing to Iran was France ‘98, where we also finished dead last.

So I guess that’s two horrible flameouts in 3 World Cups, with a good run in 2002 between them.

And this is sort of the reason that the biggest American soccer exports have, pre-Pulisic, been goalkeepers. It’s because the skills that a good shot-stopping goalkeeper, at least, needs are pretty similar to skills that are more or less transferable from basketball or volleyball.

You must be white and live in a neighborhood full of white people.

I think everyone creatively involved in building this world, both Martin and Benioff/Weiss, are tired of it and want it to be over as soon as possible.

For the show, it means consolidating everything into a rushed, spectacle-rish, plot-poor finale, and for Martin it means never finishing the books.

Bingo. This was my read as well. I thought it was clunky in the execution but it’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.

Not in states that have passed price-gouging laws, though. They’ll just run out if it comes to that.

Tormund of House Giantsbane, and given the Dreadfort. I’ll be very disappointed if that doesn’t happen.