An event whose details I remember specifically and that broadened my worldview was the failed rescue of the Iranian hostages (“Operation: Eagle Claw”). April 1980. I was 9-years-old.

Interesting that it can’t be filtered by location/state, and is not displayed on a searchable screen. Not insurmountable but I’m sure it will turn off some people from even attempting to use their codes.

Now THIS is Saturday morning programming:

I have worked with Jack at Square for several years and I can tell you that the events in Ferguson did affect him deeply. He’s aware he’s a privileged white guy but his style is to enable conversation rather than be the conversation. I truly feel that is what he has been trying to do.

She kicked all sorts of ass on Quantico, I don’t see her as Bond only because of the overall nature of Bond who is emotionally closed off which doesn’t appeal to me. I’d rather she play a new type of spy. If freakin Matt Damon can make Jason Bourne a thing, she could do it too.

Right?! I watched his interview on Monday’s CBS This Morning and he said he was open to coming back for one-off episodes. De Pablo also recently said the following in an interview at Babson College on 4/27/16 so who knows what could happen (emphasis added):

We watched two different shows.

Once Diane Sawyer left and Disney bought ABC, GMA became a(n even bigger) shill for Disney/Marvel/ABC TV/movie/music entertainment. In the past they at least threw in some news in between celebrity interview and Steals and Deal. But srsly that is all it is now.

The middle of this season a bit of a snore but it’s picked up the past couple of weeks.

What are you guys waiting for - it’s meme time!

If I am reading it right, it puts the burden of the cremation on the woman seeking the abortion.

Amazon Women In The Mood - one of the best eps of the entire series.

I’ve only been on Scandal for 2 years now so I’m not privy to what came before but the Jake thing seemed to come out of left field - not in a bad way, I just didn’t see it coming. You know he and Olivia are going to be at each other by season’s end. Papa Pope’s power speech was hard hitting but true. I’m curious about…

All-Star Squadron is a great book. Quite wordy at times, man Thomas likes chatty heroes, but he really dug deep into many societal issues in the books near 5-year run with (for its time) complex characters. If the art could be recolored I think it would look just as good or better than many books on the shelves today.

I have found that Europeans just don’t “get” black face. See Zwarte Piet.

I can see that. Aladdin is my fave Disney movie for many reasons but Jasmin’s adamant refusal to be essentially sold off in marriage then CHOOSING to use her sexuality to distract Jafar later on really showed me how mature her character was presented.

It’s called a pake.

Now she can get free clothes without having to get the police involved.

I remember watching her on Cribs oh so many years ago. She cooked a feast for the crew and 20+ years later the memory of it still makes me hungry.

Kate is British, raised in a different culture where maintaining public face is a high priority. I don’t fault her for that though it certainly is not an American way of dealing with things. She can choose - and express that choice - to not be part of the conversation.