A friend of mine had to (unplanned) deliver his children at home and seriously credits Call the Midwife as the reason he could remain calm and had any idea what to do!

He’s bad at online poker, then (not a surprise to you, I’m sure). My brother makes his living (a comfortable one) off of online poker. He saw the lockdown on particular sites coming and moved his assets accordingly.

So only because people are asking and I haven’t seen it mentioned yet: you’d only capitalize a title when it’s being used to name a specific person.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is and has always been; not so sure about the rest of us.

What’s the dirt on Oldman? I’m either too young or too out of the loop to know. Didn’t find out about his anti-Semitic comments of yore, e.g., until I was Wikipedia searching him after his GG win.

I share the same dark gratification, though teeeeechnically, papal infallibility only extends to doctrines on faith and morals—not every last thing the Pope does. I’m not sure this exact instance would count as an infallible teaching.

I still think about that movie all the time after seeing it a couple of years ago.

Don’t have anything constructive to add, just want to help bump this higher in the comments. Really hope LW1 is reading the comments.

Cheer up, George Michael, there’s always money in the banana stand.

The arguments I’ve heard against term limits, which I think make sense, are that it means that you always have newcomers in congress who don’t know how to get things accomplished. It also ends up exacerbating the power of lobbyists.

I’m married to a Persian, and it’s true. My family fell in love with the Persian side at my wedding. My sister wrote today on Facebook, “If you’ve ever had the pleasure of having a Persian friend, you’ll know that welcoming guests and treating them well is a very important part of their culture, and they will go to…

She has at least gone on the record about the need for the ethics process to be completed before confirmation hearings (see the third graf): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/senate-confirmation-hearings-background-checks.html

I always struggle with this, too—sometimes I get down about how students are performing, or being passive-aggressive, or leaving me nasty eval notes, and then I remember, “Oh yeah, that was like four humans. The other forty humans are actually really lovely.”

Yes. This was heavy on my mind the past few days—damn, I feel exhausted and depressed and scared and I guess this is me finally fully understanding what that really feels like on a visceral level and not just an intellectual one.

Thank you for making me dissolve into peals of laughter. I needed that today.

Thank you for making me dissolve into peals of laughter. I needed that today.

We are anxious to get in on the box-grabbing game, sir, and it does not bode well for you.

Could she look more adorable?

This scene is far too underused in the viral image/gif community. One of Bishop’s best scenes in the show!

Emily on a Mari Kondo trip is absolutely the thing I most look forward to seeing in this reboot.