Seriously- Chang + Gall Bladder should top the power rankings.

I would have liked that book SO MUCH MORE if it had just been: "One morning, Dany woke up and thought Wait, why am I in Mereen? Who gives a shit about Mereen? At that morning's high council, she ordered Daavio to purchase enough ships to get everyone to Westeros. Then she gave Hizdahr Zo Loraq a goodbye dope slap…

Cindy! I love how Cindy's ALWAYS going to be a jerk.

I get it- you marry Daya, that means Cesar is in your life forever, pulling guns on small children and cutting drugs in your living room. (Cesar is not the kind of family friend you decide not to invite over.) And tbh, how much did Bennett and Daya really love each other? How much did they even know each other? …

He's great because it's not clear if he's an idiot or a genius. Is his corporate speak a manipulative play, to keep Caputo calm while ignoring him? Or does he genuinely have no idea what's going on which he covers with corporate speak?

This. There's no way Piper would be in prison for selling people stickers and claiming they're acid. Flaca's in there because she's poor and latina, and the system is not on her side.

Haha- I would fucking love to see Gwyneth "William Joel" Paltrow trying to sell inmate.

Yes, this. In the book, Piper referred to one of her fellow inmates as Latina and the woman told her that she's a Spanish Mami.

I haven't seen the rest of the season yet, so this is NOT SPOILERS. Goooood I hope Nikki comes back. It doesn't seem likely, given the nature of the crime, but I really want her back. Maybe her wealthy family pulls some strings to get her back to the camp?!

On the one hand, I'd rather have a flashback of almost any guard besides Bennett. On the other hand, it was part of the Bennett send off episode, so no complaints! They could have shown 40 minutes of nothing but Daya telling him that if he really loved her, he'd turn himself in, go to jail, and condemn their kid to…

I think my eyes looked at the words, but all my brain heard was IS THIS OVER YET? AM I DONE YET? IS DANY ANY CLOSER TO WESTEROS YET? I basically don't remember anything that happened in Dorne, besides the phrase "sand snakes" and Doran watching children swim.

I called my bank and got a customer service rep who had Morello's accent exactly. It took me a minute or two to figure out why I liked the rep so much. It was eerie.

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There are also super creepy undertones to that article, if you drill down to the deeper implications. I'm all for abortion, and I'm all for lower crime rates, but this seems almost like an updated version of eugenics (swapping out nature for nurture). I'm glad I've never been mugged living in a big city, but I…

I agree that Aleida is a terrible, terrible mom, but at least she's practical. Daya needs to be smacked upside the head with some practicality, especially after last season's "But if you loooooooved me, you'd turn yourself in as a rapist, go to jail for years, ruin any job prospects forever, and leave our baby to be…

Econ nerd fun fact: the Donohue and Levitt paper that Big Boo referred to contained a basic data error, and once you fix it, the results basically disappear. Back when I was working as a research analyst for an economist, that economist told me that D&L's research analyst made a mistake (forgot to include a variable…

My favorite tweet of his:

There have been studies showing that Teen Mom and Sixteen and Pregnant significantly reduced the teen birthrate. MTV: more effective than 20 years of sex ed!

I'm only happy if George HW Bush comes out and kicks my corpse every time I lose a life.

I liked the episode, though I agree about the balloon (the balloon! THE BALLOON!). I couldn't take any more Daya and Bennett after last season, but this episode gave me hope that they might break up. (Not a spoiler, just a guess- I've only seen this first ep.) I'm thinking Pornstache's mom gets the baby, and Daya…