DC Tom

That's hateful to trans-mothers.

The dragon Euron "killed" isn't actually dead (he "saw it fall in to the sea," he didn't see it die.) Tyrion finds the injured-but healing dragon at Dragonstone, and is the Dwarfus-ex-Dracharyia for this episode.

Watching the Battle of Winterfell again, and I noticed that one of the wights Jorah Mormot kills is carrying a Dothraki scimitar. That's a nice bit of attention to detail.

But - seriously - the First Amendment guarantees the press's freedom to play sides. Even to the point of lying. Such damages are are levied against editors for such are universally civil suits. The bar for pursuing criminal charges for false reporting is necessarily high, as even complete nonsense is protected by the First Amendment (and rightfully so, on the principle that restricting the press becomes a trivial matter if you can charge them with publishing "fake news'.) And also, it's not the FBI's IG's job - or any IG's job - to investigate the press's role in enabling a conspiracy. Horowitz's report should identify the recipients of leaked information, and the relationships between the press and the concerned DOJ and IC personalities and departments, and likewise how those personalities and departments thereby used and leveraged the published leaks...but should an internal investigation of the FBI indict the boards of media corporations as a result? What would the constitutional implications of that particular Pandora's Box end up being?

Strong-arm them, like Obama did the GM bond-holders? "Political persecution! Trump's a fascist! It was different when Obama did it!" And honestly...as someone who's still vitrolic about Obama's GM nonsense, I'm not entirely sure I'd entirely disagree with the first two points.

Yes, there is. Government regulations. You think you have to sign six different documents each visit because the doctor and insurers want it that way?

Tell me, looking at that, that you wouldn't vote for Biden above the others.

"Political persecution! Oppression of the press! Constitutional crisis! Kill the antiPresident!"

No, they're not. They've got the media and a third of the country behind them. They control the narrative. The BEST thing that could happen would be for the AG report to indict the lot of them. Then they can scream "We're being politically persecuted by Trump!" and justify the violent coup they so desperately want.

Dammit, now there's a whole lot of Tyrion shorts (no pun intended) I want to see: - Tyrion Lannister orders a decaf latte at Starbucks. - Tyrion Lannister discusses moral philosophy with Sheldon Cooper. - Tyrion Lannister meets the Lollipop Guild. - Tyrion Lannister seeks Yoda. - Tyrion Lannister Breaking Bad: The Hand of the Fring.

We've gotten mail from insurers that consisted of nothing but one page saying "This Page Intentionally Left Blank."

Of course. Because when the entire world economy almost collapses because low-income homebuyers are overborrowing from banks pushing no-doc loans at no risk to themselves and at the encouragement of the government that can't be bothered to enforce the lending and homebuying regulations on the books, clearly the solution is to make it more difficult for the small business owner. My legitimate happiness for you is, sadly, tempered by the belief that you're escape is temporary. The issues are national, CA's merely the leading edge of it. The only positive thing I can say about the bull#### of the past 15 years is that it's going to look positively blissful compared to the bull#### we're going to have foisted on us in the next 15.

Health insurance companies.

You're a well-known researcher in the fields of psychology and human sexuality. You've created much of the modern methodology for describing transsexuality. You openly advocate for public funding of sex reassignment surgery. You also chaired the sub-group that contributed to the chapter in the DSM V on gender dysphoria. So you must be silenced. Your considerable scientific contributions are now forbidden by the narrative:

Remember the Sixth Amendment right to counsel for criminal defendants? Because Harvard doesn't.

I'm legitimately happy for you. Most days, it seems the only way I'm getting away from this ***** is to put a bullet in my head.

Liquid helium is used to supercool the magnetic coils inside the machine. It's not consumed, but even in a closed-cycle zero-loss cryogenic unit there is some boil-off. But a single MRI machine can need as much as 400 gallons or so of liquid helium. In comparison, the Goodyear Blimp uses around 3000 gallons for lift (a much greater volume of gas, but that's the rough equivalent of you condensed the blimp's helium to a liquid. That'a a rough back-of-the-envelope calculation - literally, for once. I did it on the back of an envelope sitting on my desk. ) But there's only three blimps. Whereas about 3000 MRI machines are sold each year. So that's 10000 gallons for blimps, vs. 1.2 million for new MRI machines annually. So the medical imaging industry uses a hell of a lot of helium - I have to admit, I was shocked enough at those numbers that I did the caluclation four times. And the economics of it is probably even more imbalanced, since cryogenics needs "refined" helium (99.9% pure), whereas the Goodyear blimp can probably get away with using "raw" helium (85% or so pure), which is significantly easier to produce.

There's no "of course" these days. And MRIs are one of the biggest uses of purified helium.

You're kidding, right?

It's a better plan than the usual "Give your money to us, and we'll put it in government bonds" Social Security-alternative that you hear socialists pushing. Not much...but a little better.

Too old to have sex with a teenager. Old enough to teach. Young enough to be on her parents' health insurance plan. I really have to get out of here.

The lack of an established threat at WR alone mitigates against any argument that the line's strength is pass blocking. Tough to look good protecting the QB if the WRs can't reliably beat single coverage. That could change, obviously, with preseason and the start of the season. But to argue it now is kind-of silly.

The shortage is probably pure helium, not the "crude" helium in party balloons. Helium's not extremely rare, given that it's just a product of alpha decay. The problem is that it's difficult to retrieve. Usually, it's a byproduct of natural gas distillation - when natural gas is purified, helium is one of the remaining impurities. If you cryogenically distill those impurities (cool it to the point that other gasses precipitate out as liquids), you can eventually get pure helium. The problem being: that's really ***** cold - about 73 Kelvin. It takes a lot of energy to cool something to that temperature while maintaining a pressure high enough to condense impurities like methane and nitrogen to liquids. And while you can theoretically do that with regular air...helium's about 10,000 times more prevalent in natural gas (5ppm in atmospher, vs. ~5% in natural gas). Which means it's not just difficult to retrieve it from air, it's hideously difficult to retrieve from air.

It's just a rebranded March of the Penguins.

So...she's advocating abstinence?