That’s one thing I didn’t get; all Melanie had to do was to tell the 1st class committee that she designed and maintains the function of the train, so if she dies, this train stops.

The LJ character is a bit ridiculous (and the actress doesn’t have the chops or charisma of HBC to go full Bellatrix), but....I did like how they used her this episode. Her eyewitness testimony about the status of the engine is the ONLY thing the Folgers were going to believe, so Layton had to send her up there. And…

It was clear that Big Boy didn’t actually speak, ever, even to the tailies, so....maybe he actually grew up in a family that spoke Mandarin, so that was the language that he involuntarily spoke when he was woken up.

I take my previous comment back...as a Lt. Col., she’s a couple ranks below the point where they send their officers to Charm School.

This is a bit of a puzzler.  At the rank of Colonel, you are at a level where you may be interacting with politicians, diplomats, and dignitaries; the military has to drill some basic etiquette into your head for that. 

Looks like a picture from those halcyon years when women were tossed into asylums for doing crazy things like stating an opinion or trying to vote. Good times!

That explains why she’s holding the gun the correct way. Her husband’s a veteran and she probably is too.

Apparently he wasn’t Trumpy ENOUGH. 

Who’s the democrat going up against Becky Q. McGunnut? Any chance they could beat her, if they run on a relatively conservative platform of, I dunno, existing in the actual real world?

Actually...

Florida: “Hold my beer and watch this.”

“this is effectively a conservative breeding pit”

Yup. On a zero-sum system with dwindling supplies, you need to figure out a way to maximize the presence and function of the most critical people—doctors, nurses, engineers, etc. So, planning a staggered schedule of drawering and de-drawering crucial personnel to maintain the train until the planet warms is one way to…

They don’t like that she’s saying the quiet part out loud. 

FL already has “pandemic again” going.  Enjoy your convention in Jacksonville, Trump and Co.!

Yeah, I’ve done the rudimentary geneology too, but my grandfather emigrated from....Britain. So, my options are:  out of the frying pan, into the fire.

As someone currently residing in Florida.....I’ll say it again:

“99% of those with Covid recover and the death rate hovers around 0.04%.”

THIS. Why is it only the Dems in congress that lose family members to COVID-19? If some of the republicans lost people they cared about, maybe they’d take this virus a little more seriously.

That’s less a “Tallahassee area” thing than a “worldwide” thing. All over the world, there are families where molestation is a tradition handed down from generation to generation. Girls always get the worst of it; fathers and uncles do it; mothers look the other way (because it happened to them too); sons see it…