I was mostly trying to tell her that the President is not either angel or devil. But we agreed that Trump is a human bag of shit.

LBJ was my example when explaining to my niece that someone can be a horrible person but a good President.

Bob Woodward’s books are really just slightly less salacious Kitty Kelley, TBH

This is a crucial, and ongoing “discussion” in my relationship with my wife. We bought a home six months ago, and sadly when the previous owners converted the garage into an office space, they installed can lighting. It is the worst - glares everywhere, uneven lighting, just awful. No. Meanwhile there’s “discussions”…

Your viewpoint and my own exactly coincided.

Ah, see, I feel like I’d been picking up what the show was laying down all through season 1, but I admit maybe that may have to do with my knowledge of the history involved. You’re altogether right that this is the episode where the show basically says, “think this guy was complex and muddled? Nope, he’s an asshole!”…

As a character, if the viewer were intended to be predisposed towards Edward, the portrayal would not be directed as whiny and sniveling as it is (This is not to fault Alex Jennings, Royal Impersonator of the Decade).

I never saw Edward as being set up to be sympathetic ... I thought their portrayal of him was craven and grubby before you even get to the Nazi stuff.

More than all of those; reduce the number of ads we’re forced to sit through before a movie.

Yeah I meant “Princess of Wales” for Diana, not Kate.

I guess that’s true.

This should clear it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_prince

Actually any wife of a prince can go by “Princess [husband-name]” - it’s a weird artifact of medieval times. Just because you marry a prince doesn’t make you a princess - you have to have the royal blood for it. That won’t stop the media from using terms like “Princess Diana” or “Princess Kate” (neither of whom were…

I still haven’t fixed the dent my sister-in-law put in my Mustang’s hood from backing her Jeep into it. Or what looks like concrete scratches on the lower front right fascia. It’s a car.

Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Arne Duncan, Andrew Cuomo, Jerry Brown (ugh). And, I grant you, at this point, the enthusiasm has died down, but for a few years there every good national Democrat had to at least be charter-curious in order to get treated seriously. I hate to use the term, but perhaps DeVos will “heighten…

mine lasted 10 years, and is still running, AFAIK

Well, OK, I sense you’re being somewhat insincere, but I’ll bite: Democrats during the Obama era supported the charter school movement, as well as “school choice”, roughly aligning themselves with types like Michelle Rhee, whose Ponziesque “improvements” in DC schools laid the groundwork for a national acceptance of…

Actually privatizing schools is where the Obama-era Democrats fall down the worst.

“AAA, who says premium fuel tends to cost about 20 to 25 percent higher than regular” what? Premium is maybe 20c more at my local gas stations.

I’ve seen a move towards replacing “freshman” with “first-years” because I guess freshman is all patriarchal or something like that? Rubbish.