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The sort of thing that would make an excellent story arc if there were more than one episode left. Because character definition and foreshadowing are not character development. Just because Dany's turn was foreordained, doesn't excuse not exploring the turn. It's lazy, hack writing.

Who do they think he is, Maxine Waters?

On the contrary, I think we should extend that practice, and regulate toy candidates like Booker more than real ones. Does every candidate have a different pet issue they're focused on? The DNC platform they come up with at the convention should be...interesting...

"Alexander Ovechkin turns the puck over eighteen times, and Evgeny Kuznetsov scores two own-goals, and Dmitri Orlov draws a five-minute major for making a run at his own goalie in a shocking 15--0 Sabres victory over the Washington Capitals!"

No, we're not. Congress won't fund it, NASA will never take the risk. They CERTAINLY won't take enough risk to do it in five years. By the time we get there, it'll be an invasion of sovereign Chinese territory.

Horrible news. Billy Ray Cyrus is still making music?

It's still going to have the consistency of chalk, right? Then I don't care, it still sucks.

I'd heard pretty much the opposite: filming was running long, so the directors cut the scene down by cutting Conway's lines to nothing more than "Elephant." Conway, being Conway, took it on his own initiative to at lib the insane stories as a good-natured "F you" to the directors and to crack up the rest of the cast, as they all tried to do. It's why Vicki Lawrence's response was so cutting - she was waiting to get on with the scene. Either way, though, it was hilarious.

34 years ago today, Philadeplhia goes all Daenerys Targaryen on itself. https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html

Read the whole Navy Times Article. It's epic. "... according to a copy of the military’s sky penis investigation obtained exclusively by Navy Times." "The squadron’s commanding officer would later praise the pilot as a shy introvert and “a ‘whiz kid’..." (Emphasis mine. :lol:) "The EWO broached it first, according to the investigation. “My initial reaction was no, bad,” the pilot wrote in a statement after the incident. “But for some reason still unknown to me, I eventually decided to do it.”" "“I remarked that we needed to take steps to try to obfuscate it,” he wrote. “I flew one pass over it essentially trying to scribble it out with my contrails. That pass was ineffective.”"

Obviously it's a joke. Iran didn't go from the early 60's to RenFaire.

There's a crowd of "Impeach Trump!" protesters outside my building this morning. Was fun being harassed by them. But hearing Dexy's Midnight Runners on the radio has still been the real low point of the day.

I'll trade you a Rob Johnson jersey for it.

Well, I'm 6'4", and she's an eight year old Chinese girl. Let's see if she's still a better drummer than me when I put her drumsticks in the back of the top shelf of the closet.

Bring it on. I'm long oil, natural gas, and gold.

You just try too hard, man.

Awww, you're an idiot.

He's a buffalo?

The above being a prime example. Why did Dany look inept flying along last week? Because she was ambushed by Euron, taken completely by surprise, because Euron had forewarning from Varys. Which was why Varys was executed. But it was so poorly written, it was almost impossible to see. Four seasons ago, that sort of intrigue would have consumed half a season of plot and character development. This season, a scene of dialog between Tyrion and Varys, an ambiguous scene of dialog between Tyrion and Dany, and a quick shot of a handwritten note by Varys. Rushed and incomplete. Same with Dany's turn to the dark side. Yes, it's been foreshadowed, and yes, to fans of the show the reasons are pretty clear (loss of many of her trusted advisors, lack of trust in the others). But foreshadowing is not character development, and it deserved far more time and better writing than it's been given. Or film. Obviously I've never seen a medieval siege, and obviously they never included dragons...but from all I've read about them, that's as close as you'll ever see to what the sacking of a walled city was like. And Masie Williams sold the shell-shock very well. And the cinematography on Cleganebowl was awesome. The framing of their initial standoff, with a backdrop of a crumbled Red Keep and a streak of flame across the sky, was the perfect apocalyptic setting for it, and a nice juxtaposition of the elemental nature of the characters (the Hound = fire, the Mountain = stone).

But enough about Obama, let's talk about Trump...

No, they don't have any such responsibility. They are not "The Fourth Estate," they do not represent the American people or their interests, and they have First Amendment protection that is not just separate from the public's freedom of speech, but is broader. What you're advocating for is throwing away completely the press's First Amendment protection...and if you're going to discard laws and principles based on nothing more than their inconvenience, just give up and vote Democrat

That is such a thoroughly stupid take that I'm putting you on ignore for it. You do know that when you donate your brain to science, you're not supposed to let them take it until you're dead?

If Masie Williams doesn't win an Emmy for that performance, the Emmys are completely worthless. That was phenomenal.

Hydrogen would allow for finding even smaller leaks, even more easily: just wave a match around.