Some of the faithful. Many, many others recognize that ambiguity and doubt are inseparable aspects of faith. And of course, I've met more than my share of absolutist atheists as well.

I remember when Love's Labors Lost aired for the first time. I was alone in my apartment, but as soon as they episode ended, my phone rang and my friend Cindy and I spent the next hour debriefing about it, we were both so freaked. I had never known the title. We just always referred to it as "The Pregnancy Episode."

Aaron's hardly the first gay character though. I guess it's a big deal because he was first in the comic, but on the show? Not so much.

"I'm going upstairs to take off my hat!"

We're up to Mary Crawley sex scandal what? Three? Four? One of these times it's going to end in disgrace.

Wait no! Rejected! That would make Anna Norman's mother, and she's perfectly decent and doesn't deserve that fate. Unless …. We've been deceived all these years and Norman's mother was actually Norman's father, and thus actually Mr. Bates in a dress!

Yeah, I admit she went to far, but I agree with Great Boos, it was worth it to see Lord Grantham turn purple.

I'm beginning to think that the Mr. Bates storyline has run its course. Either clear him or convict him, Downton Abbey? And if you convict him — Kill him this time! How many bodies is he going to have to leave in his wake?

What I like about Miss Bunting is that she does not feel as though she has an hereditary obligation to be obsequious and deferential to the aristocracy, and that's demonstrated in her personal demeanor and her politics. I think that's what Tom admires about her.

Yeah even several seasons in I still need to look up people's names! Grantham was probably blustering, but still. He's been having his sense of noblesse oblige seriously undermined this season. If Tom decides to make off to America with the baby, it may lead him to do something rash.

Well I wouldn't say he's doing it to impress her. He probably wouldn't have mentioned it at all if Grantham hadn't started piling on her. I suspect that he's letting his true colors show, just as Gratham suspects.

Perhaps, but I think that a lot of socialists who were at a remove from the actual experience of Soviet Russia at the time were inclined to view some of those reports as exaggerated propaganda, and probably didn't see the bloodshed as the regime's raison d'etre.

That's a good point, but perhaps an Irish socialist can forgive even Cromwell for as long as necessary to score points against a Lord.

Perhaps I misheard the line, but I thought it was "I don't want to get married again, and CERTAINLY don't want to get divorced." IOW: "I don't want to get married, but I might, but whatever happens, I want to make sure it's right so that divorce doesn't follow." That was my read in any event.

It's always nice when they give Thomas some depth. He's too much of a plot-hammer villain most of the time, when he's clearly got some humanity beneath the surface, and really did care about (alright LOVE) James, and Sybil.

Though interestingly, Mary is apparently not really ALL THAT interested in actually following through with marriage to Gillingham. He outright told Anna that she didn't want to get married again (and CERTAINLY not divorced). It sort of sounds like she wants to keep Gillingham as her boy toy.

Sure, but Branson's response is reasonable, given the time: The current British aristocracy is built on its own body count, as is any political regime. The successful one's engage in acts of selective forgetting and mythologization of the past.

And Lord Grantham's reply: "Well Thomas, as we all know, haters gonna hate."

10 lbs for a first baby! That just seems unfair! But what then?!?!

But wait, what about Billy and Patti from Rod Stewart's "Young Turks"? I came here specifically to find out about them! What of Billy and Patti I ask you!!!!????!!!!