Idiotic voting-ID law aside, I like that Texas allows you to vote at literally any polling location within your county. You don't have to go to "your" polling location. I'm not sure if other states do that (I've lived in four other states in the past decade, and you had to go to your assigned polling place, which was…

None of your suggestions are bad, but they are meaningless if young people don't give a fuck — and most of them don't. Or at least, not enough of a fuck to vote in non-Presidential elections.

I'm 40. How the fuck is it so hard for 18-30 year olds to get to the polls? I've voted in every state, federal and municipal election since 1992. It is truly not that difficult. What it requires is an iota of common sense and planning. Did you just move? Figure out where your fucking polling place is? Request a…

I am all for that. However, there's no data to support the idea that this increases turnout, esp. among young people.

Honestly, I don't think anything will change until things get worse. Making it easier for young people to vote would make a difference, but not much because they're still apathetic.

I'm not sure that making election day a holiday would increase voting rates, since people would probably take Monday off, too, and turn it into a 4-day mini-vacation and fuck voting.

Remains of ill-fated 21st century time traveler discovered in Siberia.

There is no activity in my life that is a better stress reliever than playing my guitars or bass. None.

I'm sorry, but are you trying to turn us off?

Beautifully put. But Gabaldon isn't a second-rate author. She started as a historical researcher, she knows her stuff, give the books a try.

I love what you've said, firstly; spot on!
I just have a teeny correction: she was brought up poor and emotionally/physically abused. She married into money and then her still-pretty-new hubby died in WWI, and she inherited everything. I believe she learned elocution and etiquette, but wasn't raised that way.
What I…

So upon watching a few episodes, I would say that the use of casual sex is not overly tropish or gratuitous, and it doesn't even happen most episodes. It's pretty consistent with her character, and tends, if anything, to help investigations (ie: by confirming that a man isn't a jealous lover of her suspect).

I haven't seen the series yet, but in the books, she's just really casual about sex and it's all good. It isn't shoehorned in or gratuitous. It's part of who she is. She's a rich girl with a lot of freedom to do what she wants, so she does.

Only Phryne doesn't have sex in every episode.

I think they had like a million dollars or something like that for costumes??? That's rather insane, but I'd say it paid off, Phryne is always dressed to the nines. I loved the seriousness of the topics that many of the mysteries involved, it was so well done. The way the show handles particularly issues (like…

I snapped a screenshot of every wardrobe change in episode one of the first series:

I love that show, and the character is wonderful. The fact that she's bucked the conventions of her upper-class upbringing are exactly what makes her so appealing. (Her colorful backstory - that she was an ambulance driver during the first world war, then an artist's model in Paris, having a lesbian doctor as a best…

I started watching this last night and am definitely going to leave a positive review now. "They're not afraid to talk about birth control! Yayyyyyyyyyyyy s!uts"

Phryne Fisher is the cat's meow and the bee's knees! I'm all goofy over this series. These folks are all wet. Just because a ritzy dame steps out with some swells and has a bit of whoopee they're all over her like a G-man on a speakeasy! They oughta mind their own beeswax, dry up, and get outta town! And HOW.

I just watched the show last week for the first time, after hearing about it for months on the aussie blogs, and I personally love my lady detectives with a hint of sluttyness. But let's get real, Phryne Fisher is a well dressed badass lady detective, who happens to sleep with whomever she's attracted too. And perhaps…