The funny thing is, it would have been so easy to tweak it to feel SLIGHTLY more justified. Like, either make the situation SUCH an emergency that she has to change into the space suit RIGHT NOW— which is how she reacted, but given that she'd still have to wait for McCoy to show up and load the missile and all……

Earth is a place you come to if you want to lay low. Not necessarily because you're a criminal or such. Just to avoid, say, debt collectors or that cousin who keeps calling.

"You have an accent so… Cajun? Yeah, let's round it up to that."

Because she's the same Raimy, simply sliding in a 6th-dimensional vector while being anchored by a 5th-dimensional tether.

I would be quite fine with this as a recurring bit if she keeps that outfit.

Yet Jean-Claude Van Damme movies always address it, in the strangest ways. "Since I sent you to boarding school in France/Since you were raised by French nuns." (Yes, this is how the TWIN Van Dammes both had French accents despite one supposedly being American, and the other grew up in Hong Kong.

Don't make a big thing of it.

Part of the problem with the CW-mandated relationship stuff is that it was so rarely organically integrated with the plot parts. Any given episode, you could probably re-edit it into two completely different half-hour shows: the superhero show and the relationship show, and neither one would feel like it was missing…

Partly, but those great-great-grandchildren are YOUR 2nd Cousins, twice removed. Your grandchildren (real or hypothetical) would be their 4th cousins. Their collective grandchildren would then be each other's 6th cousins, and it's highly doubtful that those kids would have living memory of someone who had living…

I did watch a bit of that. The Roosevelt family, in general, kind of freaks me out. One of the first lines of dialogue in "Hyde Park on Hudson" is bizarrely telling, where Daisy says she's Franklin's "5th or 6th Cousin, depending on how you count." Just the idea of a family keeping track of 5th & 6th cousins as…

I think 10% national is a good threshold. Also, "On the ballot in every state". That might be a hard bar to clear, but if a candidate (or party) doesn't have the ground game to do that, I can't see them being remotely effective at governing.

Has there been a significant Teddy Roosevelt Biopic? I'm kind of shocked that I can't even think of one.

Well, the debate commission sets a standard for "serious enough to include". "Polling at 1%" is something I'm comfortable with as something that indicates the candidate is not serious enough.

Please. Howard Dean would like a word about what "the media wanted him to lose" actually looks like.

Well, part of it is it's useless for a 3rd Party candidate to win the presidency without there also being a base of support throughout the rest of the system: congress, state houses, governors, etc. You think Obama faced obstructionism? Imagine having NO allies at all in Congress.

Kelly, by comparison to the rest of the network, has pivoted to full dirty hippie.

The 1912 election is a fascinating thing that really gets very little focus in most American history overviews.

I think a lot of people just think, "Two Party system is limited and thus bad, so therefore any 3rd party candidate getting traction is good."

The tongue thing I can kind of defend, in that he was saying, "Trump and Hillary are both so awful, I could be up there doing something THIS STUPID and still be the best one up there."

If I were to hazard a guess, there's probably an intentional element of the three moms being in different decades in their lives. Shailene playing the, "How the fuck did his happen I'm too young for this to be my life" mom.