FAKE NEWS! No one was sitting in front of Supreme Leader Trump at the 1996 Olympics! He was as always in the front row! And he won all the medals in all the sports!

Knowing only the character, that wouldn't have been my guess, but knowing the career Donald had already had, I'd say it was a pretty safe bet all along.

Oh agreed—it's the pacing of the season, not the rush to the wedding that bothered. The two-week window was appropriate to the character and story. And I have to give credit to one of the other things that bummed me out about that story/rush being totally on-purpose: I thought we were getting a girl-group story,…

As you might surmise from my never-changing avatar, mine's the same as last time we did this—a picture from our trip to Vietnam…now 2 years ago I think?

I don't need a whole season lead-up to the wedding (or a whole season set on the wedding weekend—egads!) but the last two episodes felt so rushed.

Awww. Kickpuncher was at the end of a long day when she started crying in the middle of dinner tonight, so I get it. Did poor wittle pwesident have to get shots, too?

Name of said book? I think I would enjoy inflicting it on my students…

Too bad Mr/s. Nameless Hero isn't like Frederick Douglass, who people are recognizing more and more…

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Nice….Having gone to college in St. Louis, half my classmates were "from Chicago." Heck, Evanston's not even that bad—the L goes there! We had people from St. Charles and Crystal Lake claiming they were "From Chicago"

Have I lost track of which crazy countries have the nukes?

And this is why I woke up this morning running various scenarios about what would happen if a nuclear bomb got dropped on NYC…. (e.g. there's some chance I might move out of the city a month or two before my husband joins, so it would suck if that was the interval in which Trump pisses of Iran)

Can't remember if you've already watched it, but The Good Place is good for that. Early Leverage, before it got a little too self-serious, is also kind of mindless and good-guys-winning for me, too.

Probably the most patriotic thing they could do. He'd be tied up in Twitter feuds for dayyyyyys. I bet it could slow down the pace of our conversion into a Fascist state by a week at least.

On the upside, I'm now singing "Everything is Awful" to the tune of "Everything is Awesome"?

It's like Grumpy Old Men but not hilarious …

I loved that line!!!

This feeling has to be a flavor of FroYo in The Good Place!

Those bad dudes are smart!

Oh, I'm aware, but he also bashed it for getting low ratings. Because everything he does is very logical and thought-out and in no way simply subject to the whims of his ego.