I was specifically thinking of the enormous number of people who only read YA. I used to say, "Kids who read JK Rowling will grow up to read Dostoevsky. Kids who read twilight will grow up and read dean koontz." Unfortunately I've found this is seldom the case. There is nothing to gain from reading YA other than 'a…

YA: stupid shit for stupid people (when fully grown humans are still reading it).

With all the recent stuff I have been delving back in to the Irish politics [study abroad, if only to learn someone else's history from their perspective]. Found this video and you seem to be genuinely interested so here it is. Nutshell: currently it's peaceful. No. 1 fear: destabilization. If brexit threatens…

Nothing to add. Spot on.

Damn, that's brutal. I guess there are things to be said for being utterly ethincally non-diverse. My entire genome is Germano-Celtic and everyone is Catholic (I'm agnostic but do not deny my culture is catholic). I dated a Southern Baptist girl in high school hence my presence at the world's most boring wedding.

We Catholics were sold by that whole turning-this-boring-water-thing-into-alcohol. Ever been to a protestant wedding? If you want me to sit here and pretend you'll be happy for the rest of your life, you need to provide me with the magic juice that makes me think ridiculous things are possible.

Well, he is a Merman so oceans are no hinderance to him.

Cersei can take the heat.

Throwing himself from a window was such a Tommen move.

Indeed, the Dragon Queen!

Olenna Tyrell, thank you for speaking with our collective voice.

Short will be your Reign.

Claims to be a purrgressive but I think she just wants legal catnip.

The acid wears off? That's good to know. I thought my cat would never shut up about the political strife on her native Thuban 9.

It's an uneven power dynamic. Catholic Republicans are overwhelmingly more common in the north as well as south. The rich and powerful in NI tend to be protestant unionist (union with England).

Honest to Jeebus quote just spoken on the BBC nature doc I'm currently watching, "One monkey has the strangest way to make friends and influence others, and it's found surprisingly close to home…Technically, they're British…These are some of the most political monkeys in the world. They're constantly making friends,…

The latter is what Sinn Fein (and popular opinion) wants. I would think it would have to be a process of stages for differences in laws converging. A big one being abortion. It's been a few years since I lived there but the people want to be together wholesale.

Then maybe it's time to cut back on the drinking.

Now I'm conflicted. It was stupid to vote leave, but now we have the possibility of a unified Ireland. I care more about that than anything that happens to England or Wales.

The only way that header image could more perfectly encapsulate this is if Bart, Lisa, and Maggie were behind Homer with the flags of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and London over their faces; all trying to tunnel out.