At the age of 29, with not very much in the way of assets, my divorce lawyer accounted for more than $10k of my roughly $40k in immediate losses.

At the risk of being dragged for the following statement: from an federal ethics perspective, there is a strict $300 limit on any combined contribution for gifts to a supervisor, and a $10 maximum (I believe) individual contribution. There’s literally no way the EPA legal council would have approved staff footing that…

I... can't tell if this is real or not.

Ooomph... you say that, but... have you ever taken that flight? Because: fuck that flight.

Do you also not carry auto insurance because you’ve never had a collision, or home owner’s insurance (or rental) because your house isn’t burning down? Do you refuse to pay property taxes because you have no children in school?

Seconding the first Valkyria Chronicles.

I feel like Larry King is actually the leathery bacon in your analogy, which means poor Walter needs to do double duty as both buns... lovingly cradling that sweet, juicy Freeman patty...

Thank you for all of this; in retrospect, it really explains why I remember loving seasons 1 and 2... and then tapping out after the Cadence plotline, for no real articulable reason other than, "it just doesn't feel the same."

I wasn’t aware of this culling of writers... only thing I could find was one going to Disney after Season 5. Are you willing to elaborate?

Associated question:

Also, for what it’s worth, in my time on the ground in Iraq surrounded by the Sunni/Shiite shit-show, the Kurds were the most (relatively speaking) reasonable, dependable allies we had.  I could actually sleep with both eyes closed around the Kurds I knew.

I HAVE A TELEPHONE AND A MOTHER FOR THAT

That didn’t work for me with Verizon this time around!

Um... not to belittle the enthusiasm and generosity of heart in your comment, but: no measureable, palpable repercussions to date have at all shown us to be anything other than a bunch of mooks/rubes/marks from which he can absolutely thieve with abandon.

Hard disagree.
The two comparable lines are, “I am no man!” and “But no living man am I!” — excising the additional exposition of “You look upon a woman...”
The latter evokes the syntactical structure of the triumphant reveal of MacDuff’s birth in MacBeth — and, if we concede to add the exposition back in, then “You…

How is “I am no man” less literal, and how does it add weight to the moment?
I ask because it is painfully clear throughout the films where the text is faithful to the book, and where it is Hollywood claptrap — they are visually sumptuous films, but so very jarring in the way they lurch between similarly sumptuous…

I guess I understand the “cornball,” except: in the admittedly fictional MCU, Wakanda was ground zero for Thanos’ invasion of Earth. They held the line to the best of their considerable abilities, and bore the brunt of all casualties up until the moment of The Snap. If I were a lily-white citizen of Earth in the MCU,…

So... I hate to be the one to break this to you, but... I strongly suspect that you are in error in your assumption that the poll results are divergent from reality.

Do it!

Do it!

I can see your points, and don’t really disagree — except thematically, as I find the theme quite sound, especially given centuries of Church involvement in the propping and toppling of kings in a medieval warfare scenario!

I can see your points, and don’t really disagree — except thematically, as I find the theme quite sound, especially…