and as the clock is ticking down toward when he will eventually become monarch

They are all the clothing equivalent of over-cooked oatmeal. 

Pretty sure those are the exact shoes my uncle wore when he was in prison. 

That’s kind of like thinking that someone who is bipolar only has two moods. I’m bi, and I am just as attracted to trans men and women as I am to cis men and women. Or androgynous or agender people! People can (obviously) feel free to use the word pan if they like, but setting it up as “we are attracted to trans or…

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the political situation in Maine that got him elected. 

There are plenty of white non-evangelical Christians who are still 100% in on the right’s bs. 

I can’t wait to hear all the usual suspects on the “Christian” right to object to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, showing mercy to the criminal, and aiding the widowed and the orphaned. I’m sure the U.S. being a “Christian country” will continue to just mean being anti-abortion (something the Bible never…

Eh, maybe the stress will get to him and Mother Nature will vote to remove him. 

Holy shit, finally. 

Laura is one to talk, she’s the Crone of the Corn, at this point.  

I think it’s similar to how the whole NYT editorial staff felt when they went on Twitter and realized that not everyone thinks they are as wonderful as the people that go to their cocktail parties do. 

It’s amazing what happens when you are forced to interact with people who aren’t being paid to say they like you, isn’t in, Howard? 

Yea, not to be glib, but the honest answer is “they graduated from school and then got a job in journalism.” There wasn’t some secret take-over or elaborate plot- just a bunch of people who already believed- consciously or unconsciously- in white supremacy who wanted to be journalists. 

Almost all highly processed foods use some kind of citric acid as a perseverative, so it’s really hard to get scurvy even if that is all you are eating. Even a thing of McDonald’s ketchup will have enough vitamin c in it to keep you from getting scurvy. 

Potatoes and ketchup will give you basically all the nutrients you really need to survive (not to be particularly healthy, but you’ll live a relatively normal life). He really did just pick the wrong foods.

I mean, if we are being critical, it didn’t even really end up working for Jo. She ended up a wife and mother who didn’t write anymore by the end of the series. 

I personally did not want any of them to marry Laurie, as I thought his obsession with being part of the family was gross

My favorite part of Beauty and the Beast is knowing that Beast gets turned back into a human member of the nobility just in time for the heads to start rolling during the Terror. Also, even as a kid (before I was a dirty red), I had to wonder how effective a monarchical system really was if the local prince could…

She’s also 12 at the beginning of the book, which I feel like people sometimes forget because she is so involved in the affairs of her much older sisters. Kids are supposed to be insufferable at 12, that’s just how they are! 

Considering that marriage was pretty much inescapable at the time once you got into it, I think Amy was also pretty smart for going with the devil she knew over the one she didn’t. Laurie might not be the brightest bulb, but he does genuinely love her family, seems willing to accept her criticisms of his character and…