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Which brings up the question: What the hell happened in that DealMart?

I think Thor's definitely screwing with us, but kennings were a common feature of Norse poetry (like using sail road for the sea) and land ship is a kenning for car.

Some local Arizona papers have been delving into that 1864 law (The Howell Code) and it's horrifying. The abortion section that they're using is Chapter X, Section 45. Chapter X, Section 15 States: "No black or mulatto, or Indian, Mongolian or Asiatic, shall be permitted to give evidence in favor of or against any white person.” And Chapter X, Section 47 sets the age of consent at 10. Probably because the Speaker of the House, W. Claude Jones (a "pursuer of nubile females") and one of the senators, King Woolsey, that passed the law both had child brides. But the good news is there's enough signatures to get the "Arizona Right to Abortion Initiative" a proposed amendment to the state constitution on the ballot in November.

By just horse and buggy, I could see it taking two months. By Hetty's time in 1895 there would have been railroads and she probably could have done it in a week or two. They seem to like the running gag of how much slower things were in Hetty's day, although I think they tend to exaggerate it a bit.

It may take time to collect my thoughts on this one. So much to say, and Rebecca was so good, but just the look on her face when she pulls down her collar to reveal the cord (which I saw as the copper wire that connected it to the wall) said everything. That's how I saw it too.

Surprise guest? Patience the feral Puritan ghost?

Sinema's out, she announced her "retirement" from the Senate last month. She blamed partisanship but really just read the writing on the wall that everyone hates her.

Yeah, right under: Secondly, I leave to my sons, Jack and Donny... I'm of the same attitude, but I would rather cull the Gruesome Foursome (Sonny/Carly/Jason/Michael) and then see if any of the others can thrive before I cut them. Pipe dream, I know. Counterpoint: Tanisha Harper is really hot! No wonder the cops are always losing to Sonny, they're clearly paid shit!

There's a lot of hours in a day they need to fill and they're hoping that the furor has died down enough to let it slide and those movies aren't making any money in the Hallmark vault?

It really does make me think of the Voltaire quote: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. Especially even after he knew they were innocent. I don't know if it would be a deterrent for them. If they do watch, I think they should have to keep their hands in sight at all times. Personally, I would have them spend a night in a jail cell and then actually be strapped to the gurney so they really know what it feels like.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ashton-kutcher-expecting-subpoena-over-013051777.html So, Ashton Kutcher's good friends with Sean Combs. Is it terrible taste in friends, or just birds of a feather?

We meet Trevor's brother. I assume Trevor, Pete and Flower are the only ones who still have any close family remaining. I can see the commonalities between them for good and for ill. But I liked that Trevor knew that it was best for Jeremy not to hang around the B&B all the time. Hopefully Jay will close the loophole on the sign up offer. I think Hetty's stories are worse than Thor's. Both of them are still grimly hilarious though. Isaac discovering dinosaurs was the highlight of the episode for me! Although having read the book Fossil Legends of the First Americans, fossils were being found in his day, but they had not quite realized what they actually were. They thought there could be mysterious monsters further inland, which incidentally was one of the side purposes of expeditions like Lewis and Clark's. I don't know if it was an act so much as it was just easy for her, now that Pete's been gone nearly 40 years, to apologize to (what to her was) an empty room. Now that they're back under the same roof, they seem to fall into old patterns, and we've seen over the years that Pete and Carol did not have the healthiest of relationships. While I don't want to see her stick around long-term, I would feel kinda bad if she got sucked off before Pete. Maybe she can fall down Flower's Well?

They're the people in that meme I saw: "Can't pay back those college loans? You should have skipped college and gotten a real job!" and at the same time, "Can't make enough money, well, you should have gone to college and gotten a real job!" My response: Oh, I see the problem, you weren't born rich. This "it was hard for me so it should be hard for everyone else" attitude is the main problem right here. We'd rather drag everyone down than lift anyone up. While I understand the anger when you aren't one of the ones uplifted, that's the reason to make these things universal. That's the problem with forcing children to choose a career/life path before they're trusted to go to the bathroom by themselves. It's that special kind of idiot that makes it impossible for people to have children and then they're shocked, SHOCKED! that people aren't having kids. Our government seems to be full of those special kinds of idiots.

My favorite Moroccan Amazigh Band/Youtube discovery Meteor Airlines has a new album out. One of my favorite tracks is Mani Aman (Where is the Water?)

And here I thought they were finally going to delve into the long awaited story where Laura, as mayor, discovers all the lead, cadmium, and (apparently) cobalt in the PC drinking water, thus explaining the high levels of stupidity and cancer in that town. (Personally, I'm still pissed that we were cheated out of the confrontation between Heather and Liesl after Britt's death)