Many years ago now my province had a program where you could report someone you suspected of cheating on welfare, to catch all of the millionaires abusing the program I assume. They shut it down because surprise, there just weren’t that many people doing it. Now, if they went after people cheating on their income…

They still do it here, though there’s calls to change it after a gas bar attendant was killed trying to stop someone from driving off without paying. A recent immigrant who came here looking for a better life, lost her job as an engineer due to economic downturn & had to take this job to make ends meet, then run over…

I have no idea what the statistics on this are (if there are any) but I would have thought that black people would be LESS likely to dine and dash than white people. One of the many things white people can get away with easier than others.

Ug, I shouldn’t be surprised. Many years ago the Steelworkers were dealing with a member with an intellectual disability whose family discovered he was getting far paid less than the other workers. The company argued that it was because his disability meant he couldn’t do the same level of work the others did. The…

That’s the “Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights group” to you.

To clarify: we don’t elect our Prime Minister directly like Americans directly elect their President. Each riding has candidates from each party in it (okay, some parties don’t run in each riding and some candidates aren’t in a party, but almost every time each candidate represents a party). You vote for the candidate…

Amy Sherman-Palladino said that Rory is based on herself as a teenager. The very definition of a Mary Sue.

Unless we’re told otherwise I will always believe that the last line will confirm that Lorelai’s dream about having twins with Luke was actually a prophecy.

I only want to see Lane if she’s doing something other than being a stay-at-home mom. Not because there’s something wrong with choosing that, but because she DIDN’T and that’s why it sucked so hard.

Luke!

It bugged me so much that that storyline didn’t end with Rory realizing she’s not a special snowflake, but with Rory realizing that she IS a special snowflake and Mitchum was wrong not to see it. Ug! I’m sure the reboot will have Rory as the best most amazing journalist the world has ever seen. It will probably open…

YES.

In the recent cast reunion (ComicCon? I don’t remember) the cast was asked where they thought their characters would be now and Kelly Bishop said that Emily is a widow now. Matt C said that he doesn’t know what Logan is doing but is sure of one thing, he isn’t working ;)

Know how she became famous? Some British guy was dong a documentary on her and when he watched the film there seemed to be a glow around her, so he decided it was a miracle. The cameraman explained it was just the new type of film he’d used but he wouldn’t listen.

Oh but they do. It used to be a big thing, Jewish families would hire Catholic servants because they could work on the Jewish Sabbath, and sometimes the Catholic servants would secretly baptize the family’s children to save their souls. If the church found out they’d take the children away because they were Catholic…

I hope I don’t get banned or something for posting a link. To this article I’d add that at the end of her life Mother Theresa received state-of-the-art care in an American hospital.

I was wondering about that too. I noticed that the book never includes descriptions of the character’s physical appearances at all (except to mention that one female astronaut is hot but as if they’re going to cast an actress who isn’t), so they could have been played by anybody. I clearly remember at least one…

The pilot was great but the show went progressively downhill from there. I didn’t watch after the first season.

Interesting fact: the # of words in the episode titles matched the season through seasons 1-4, then started counting backwards. All the titles of season 1 episodes were 1 word, season 2 episode titles were 2 words etc until season 5, when the numbers started going down instead of continuing up. Now, in season 7, the…

Wha-at? She wears a wig? Why?????????