5. is speculative at best. Clinton actually says she turned the emails over to her lawyers, with instructions to share all the ones that aren't personal, and they say they did that. Might be lying, might not be, we don't know.

Our weird fetishism for the Founding Fathers is equivalent to that of the citizenry of Rock Ridge's for Randolph Scott. It means we don't tamper with the constitution as much as we might, for good or ill, so we end up with these sort of kludges.

Depends how we mean capable. I think they're willing to plant evidence, but able to do so competently beyond something simple like the key? I don't know.

Structure is totally worthless to me, I guess.

AGOT is by far the weakest, actually.

I'm glad we had this talk?

That would just be every other fantasy story, though. For better or worse, Martin started writing ASOIAF to be different than that.

As in specifically white people faced with vague insults at the AV Club. In general we're pretty fucked.

If might be easier, but when if comes to court appointments, failing to launch a frontal assault on the sexual revolution would risk disappointing the anti-legal abortion movement, who have been loyal Republican foot soldiers for decades. They aren't the people you want to disappoint if you want a second term.

Flanagan was never able to control his pets at any acceptable level.

Manatees are notoriously sexist.

Maybe when his staff prints the AV Club comments mentioning him and gives it to him in the morning, he'll think that's a good idea.

I don't know, I couldn't get much whiter (the things I'll put mayo on, oh my….) and I've never felt that way. I just don't go around with the expectation that people will approve of me on any level, so I don't find myself particularly shocked or guilty or excluded when they don't. I blame teenaged metalheadedness.

Courts have done that many times.

Yeah, the detail where they found bits of her burned body in his burn barrel but also at a site a few miles away always seemed very odd to me. Like he realized he should try to move the evidence but left obvious stuff like her purse just sitting there in a burn barrel? It's a very strange combination of apparently…

The thing he said to his mom (in a taped jailhouse phone call) about how he got certain details right was something like "I guessed, just like I do at school" hurt bad to hear.

Yeah, but it was mainly white people who voted for Trump and a majority of the whites who voted did so. This is who we are and apologia about space travel are just that. And white people are not solely responsible for any of the nice things you listed.

The story Smith told at one point was that she had talked shit about his dialogue for Overnight Delivery, a pretty bad road movie that starred Witherspoon and Paul Rudd which Smith did an ultimately uncredited rewrite on. If I remember right, Witherspoon was by far the best thing about it.

Yeah, you nailed the major problem with it. I'll accept any sci fi nonsense, but the way they seemed to be shrinking from the implications of that stuff. Maybe Whedon and/or Fox didn't want their show to be constantly about either rape or sex work, but their premise was what it was.

It's one of the reasons this person does, because the characters are more complicated than "we're the good guys." It's by definition just my interpretation of what I watched. I'm a soft believer in death of the author anyway, so I don't even wonder whether Whedon meant it or not too much.