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My preferred opening is, "Imagine Comcast charging you $59.99/mo for the 'Conservative Priority Access' package if you want to continue visiting Fox News, Breitbart, or The Blaze."

The same way we all do.

Jon wasn't even in charge of the cavalry during the battle, he rushed off on his own and then Davos sent them in to save him.

It had the same twist ending as Murder on the Orient Express: everyone did it.

O'Reilly would be a hell of a get, and he's got nothing else to do.

Nope, they just send us endless donation requests in the mail.

I don't think I was ever so angry at the show as I was when it turned out that Arya's near-death wasn't part of a plan to put the Waif off her trail. I fully expected that she'd crawl out of the water and pull out a fake bag of guts that she'd borrowed from that acting troupe.

Sansa knows Jon well enough to know that he's an idiot who'd insist on fighting honorably (even against someone like Ramsay), and that he'd have had the Knights of the Vale lined up alongside everyone else at the start of the battle. And she knows Ramsay well enough to know that if he saw all those well-rested mounted…

It's astonishing to go back and revisit the first two seasons now, and see how much better it was when things had to be smaller and more character-driven because they didn't have the budget for anything else.

I'm going with the Night King. His rule will be harsh but fair. And no long speeches, either.

I'm pretty sure that Sansa's view at this point is that Jon is a well-intentioned idiot who can't effectively lead the North, and that taking the leadership role away from him would be a 'greater good' sort of thing. There doesn't need to be anything treacherous about her thinking.

Gov Slater, I think we're about as far apart as we were two days ago, so probably best to leave it at that. Good luck and god bless.

What was your cousin's insurance situation like before the ACA?

I'm for a government-run, single-payer system, and I make no bones about it, even though I've spent time in the UK and seen the shortcomings of the NHS first-hand. As far as I'm concerned, the free market is a wonderful framework where most things are concerned, but health care is not one of them. A European-style…

For me, the dead giveaway is the hard edge between Putin's head and that of the guy behind him.

You're describing the health care system as it existed pre-ACA. Take away government regulations and you're right back to insurance companies denying policies to people with pre-existing conditions (which is a nebulous term in the industry's hands) and issuing "affordable" policies that have some combination of…

I'm not sure, sorry. The Wire reviews are now up on his blogspot page, and there'd be some detective work necessary to figure out who he was writing for when he wrote them. Anyway, here's the link for anyone interested:

Alan Sepinwall's Wire reviews there are essential reading for anyone who's watched the show.

Christ, what an asshole.