We're all subject to King Azaz here.

Where's Tiberius Gracchus when you need him?

"Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock all men from Texas will meet behind the north latrine."

If anyone in that story committed a "hoax" wouldn't it be the serpant? Eve was pretty honest with Adam. And then Adam tattled.

I'm not clear how Wakanda is a "riff" on emergent post-colonial governments when one of it's major qualities is that it's been around as it is forever and is deliberately isolationist. If anything, it's a fantasy of an Africa that never got colonized. Further, the concept of an ancient, hidden kingdom ruled by a…

Really? Her delighted grins when she started understanding her powers were one of my favorite things about her take on WW.

You don't think casting a billionaire using his wealth to become a badass defender of "his" city isn't equally odd considering the long history of robber barons and capitalistic exploiters of the poor?

Exactly. Well-managed diamond mines, with the money gleaned from them sensibly reinvested for domestic good at the direction of a king-in-all-but-name. That's basically the definition of a "benevolent autocrat."

I'd switch them, Jerome is so passive, Fillion seems like a weird choice.

But the bathroom complications!

There's Botswana. The "benevolent king" essentially worked out for them there.

Supreme power is all about image though. The minute the masses figure out you aren't god on earth, you get brained by an irritated bodyguard or poisoned by your chef.

Oh easily. But I wouldn't excise them because, at least right now, even the stuff I'm not enjoying seems like part of this strange new world I've entered.

There was Lion too I think? That was the only one they did an awards push for. Though possibly it was the only good movie they had.

Isn't Weinstein Co. suffering from serious cash flow issues? That's the rumor I heard. Maybe they can't afford to release it?

Well there's also the fact that admitting Trump is a corrupt wannabe autocrat whose only saving grace is incompetence, would also involve admitting that they'd been cozened by a hilariously obvious conman. That's basically having to say, "Yes. I'm a moron."

Oh certainly - I meant more that you feel amicable/cordial towards each other. Neutral cordiality, say. If you stopped feeling like you owed each other more than being good/cooperative parents, you may be able to relax and feel more comfortable.

It's possible to try an "in-home" separation? Where you no longer have to pretend to do things together or feel like you should be talking but aren't. You let go of pretense and shoot for a "roommates" situation and line that up in conjunction with a good counselor. Also, I get that you feel like you know what the…

Biblical literalists vary in how "literal" they actually are. For example, few of them believe that heaven is "literally" God's throne and that the earth is "literally" His footstool. Though I did know one guy who was blown away when our church's elder gently explained to him that no, our church didn't believe that…

True, and I am sad how people are losing their vocabulary in general (all those words taken off the SAT list). Though perhaps we should be glad, considering how throughly irony has been pounded into a pulp.