1. Agreed. I’ve read works translated from Ancient Greek using “modern” American English, where the translator had a good enough sense of the language to be able to translate the work into English that had the same feeling as the original words did. But even doing that, it isn’t possible to erase elements like…

I have to say, it’s pretty fitting that the person shitting all over this thread is named after a river so polluted that it can no longer sustain life.

The saddest part is that it’s true. How the same genre produced “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” and Morgan Wallen’s oeuvre, I do not know.

This is truly ironic--she was very public about being a practicing Christian, and I distinctly remember thinking “well, I loved her as Lyanna Mormont, it’s too bad she’s probably really homophobic".

I cannot remember where I read this, but there was someone who once said that by the end of his career, the average NFL player would be considered disabled by chronic pain and bone/muscle damage sustained from repeated hard hits. That simply is not the case for most sports. People retiring from the NBA or, in most…

Addendum to reason three: the generation most likely to get the jokes doesn’t “go to the movies”.

Carrying a gun in the post apocalypse is fundamentally different from carrying or owning one in a society at peace— trying to infuse some political meaning into it is just weird. This column reads as a caricature of Americans’ inability to perceive any situation through a lense other than their own experience.

Tell it to Emmett Till.

Unlikeability makes him sound more interesting than he is.

Agreed. It’s more of a “long arc of the universe” thing.

Ah, yes, because women can’t use roofies, psychological manipulation or, when it comes down to it, actual weapons.

Yup. Karma’s a bitch 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

And this is why no one reports SA/domestic violence cases perpetrated by women. No one takes it seriously.

Also, writing an NOI character who’s ok with a Jewish son in law is like writing a National Socialist who’s ok with a Jewish son in law. Seriously. Middle East politics aside, I could believe a mainstream Muslim family accepting Hill’s character. This is just absurd.

....what?

This reminds me of hearing that Richard Nixon beat the sh*t out of his wife. As in, not even an iota of surprise.

The Democrats could have decided to “fight” the nomination or not. Neither course of action would have changed the mathematics of the U.S. Senate. Neither would have kept Kavanaugh off the bench.

Please, God, don’t tell me that it was Bill Hader that inspired this. My heart will shatter.

Don’t feed the Russian. Ain’t worth it.

I think that’s broadly accurate. I will also say that the Clinton impeachment was a bit of a watershed in terms of the media deluding itself into thinking it mattered. The old head of ABC News admitted in his memoir that they tried everything they could to make voters care about the Monica Lewinsky affair, every…