And the opening about being “desperate for ratings” is a giveaway too. No one is as obsessed with ratings as he is.

Charles Perrault also published a version in the previous century. Several even older Italian versions exist as well. It’s one of those story archetypes that has existed in one form or another for hundreds of years. Maybe even thousands, if you also look at the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche as an early variant.

Yeah, definitely not Baroque. The time period it was built and the exterior fit the 19th century Gothic Revival.

It’s an alternative castle. Welcome to 2017!

Hell no, hauntings are a bonus.

Sad but not especially surprising - Pam’s got a type and it’s gross and sleazy.

Single issue voters ARE stupid. Just look at how many voted based solely on their hatred of abortion or their racism and are now worried that they’re going to lose their insurance when repealing the ACA was literally what Trump and everyone else in the Republican party was saying they were going to do.

Ooh, if I was in New York I would totally go to this.

Yeah, I don’t know for sure what his habits were, and certainly I think it could have been prevented. My granddad had a cousin who died young - early 30s - with a fatty liver and it wasn’t hard to read between the lines of the death certificate to figure out he drank himself to death rather spectacularly.

That’s just it, without being privy to his medical records - and we don’t have any business to, imo - there could be any number of fairly common medical conditions that contributed.

It can also happen to diabetics. It’s caused by excess sugar.

That was more or less what George Michael’s ex was quoted as saying in the BBC report, too.

I remember hearing, even several years before his death, that Prince had bad knee and hip trouble. That cane he was photographed with frequently the last few years of his life wasn’t just for show.

I just look at the potential millions of lives they’re going to destroy by dismantling this country’s healthcare, educational system, environment... would them all dying off before they can finish the job be worth it? Hell yes.

I swear if every one of these shitweasels just dropped dead tomorrow morning, I would not ask questions. Not a chance in hell I’d look a gift horse like that in the mouth. Are you there God? It’s me. I’ve got a birthday coming up in a month or so...

Only if you don’t use a ghostwriter. No Russian prostitutes holding the pen allowed!

Nothing. We owe her absolutely fucking nothing. She owes feminism (which she claims to hate so much) everything for even being able to be in the position she is right now. If there’s any debt here, she’s the one who’s up to her eyeballs in it.

Ballotpedia also has a municipal section!

I agree with you, to a degree. I do agree that Catholic identity was something that people clung to pugnaciously to differentiate themselves from Anglo colonizers, but disagree in that I think it traces back much further than De Valera and the rest of his generation. So many Catholic Irish fought back against the…

Births and deaths are supposed to be officially registered with the government and have been since 1864, particularly within institutions. That these were not is definitely strange, particularly if all the deaths occurred within a short time period.