Yeah it would probably have a little too much complexity to get made. You'd kind of want to root for everyone individually and nobody as a group.

That could be pretty good. And considering the size of the Chinese market, it might not be a bad bet for a studio.

Really? I never would have guessed.

To say that the effects of the Empire were both good and bad, while strictly true, implies that they were good and bad in roughly equal measure, when the reality is that, in most places, the bad far outweighed the good, at least for those whose lands were colonized.

Rwanda was actually independent for about 40 years before the genocide of 1994, which was far from the first outbreak of ethnic violence to happen there. The first major one was immediately after the Belgians left, I believe. Tensions between the Hutus and Tutsi were largely a Belgian creation. No, Belgium isn't…

The one that I find strange is German colonialism. In Tanzania, they were probably as progressive and enlightened as any European power of the time. They had a reasonably good educational system, made an effort to treat the Africans fairly (again, by the standards of the time), and built pretty good infrastructure. In…

"This Duracell is a C."
-A.A. Dowd

I always thought the defense of the foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion would make a great swashbuckling adventure movie of the type that died out after the sixties. It could be a fun story about a bunch of people from disparate backgrounds and countries united against long odds, etc. Of course, this movie…

It was a brief revolt.

In South Florida, they say "conk." I lived there as a kid and was very confused to hear it pronounced as it's spelled when I read that book in high school in California.

"All in the Family" was in no way subtle. It made Archie sympathetic, but without ever presenting his beliefs as right or indulging in the false equivalency that so many people today confuse with even-handedness.

Austrian.

Today's PC culture? Because the point of All in the Family was that bigotry was fine, and the minorities should stop complaining?

There certainly are indications that Trump likes to keep it all in the family.

Are you calling Jessica Walter an orangutan?

It could work with an athlete, but probably not an actor or musician.

I thought that said, "beets, potatoes, and chill." Which I assume is a Russian booty call.

What up, my Redenbacha!

If you can get through today, you can get through tomorrow. There'll be good days and bad days, but most likely the overall trend will be for them to get easier.

Well, you got through the day. That's something.