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I definitely do not want to see a false rape accusation story out there for multiple reasons. One, I don't want to see poor victim Morgan. He's an asshole, full stop. I don't want to see it turn into some thing where he's the victim of anything, and eventually all the people he's been a shit to are going to have to suck it up and apologize for not believing his lame ass. Second, I just hate when that notion even gets put out there. Too many people, in real life, are quick to jump to "she's lying" when a woman says she was raped, so it makes me automatically cringe when we see stories of false rape accusations played out on TV or movies.

I think it would have been closer if Cory and Mitch didn't kill the other teams at the final leg (the puzzle and run). I figure that they were probably at least a half hour (possibly more) behind the guys before the last leg. C/M were done running before either of the other two teams finished the puzzle, and then, if I remember correctly, J/B didn't even finish the puzzle, they just hit the time limit. I don't remember if they said how much of a lead J/B had over C/J and C/M after the first leg*, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that, when all was said and done, with the time penalties and the big gap in the canoe race, J/B were around an hour behind C/M. *But I wouldn't think it was more than 1/2 hour, maybe 45 minutes. We know that on the last leg, C/J were up on the roof starting the tire walk thing before J/B finished, and then C/M got up there right around when C/J finished. Depending on how fast each team ran the rest of it (after finishing the tire race), C/M were basically behind them around the length of time it would take to do the tire walk twice. I tend to think that the canoe race difference erased that gap (and then some). So C/M were ahead of J/B the 20 minute difference from the eating challenge, along with however faster they finished the last leg, which seemed substantial.

If you're not already watching John Oliver's show, check it out. He does this even more than Jon was able to, because he typically devotes most of his 1/2 hour show to one or two topics, with a little bit of summary of the rest of the issues of the week thrown in. Sometimes his topics seem obscure, going in, but I always end up interested and learn something by the time he's done. I like Trevor's style now, but I also wouldn't mind if, at least once a week, he did a show more like what you're describing. It doesn't have to be every episode, but once a week would be a nice balance. Some topics just need a more in-depth examination than you can do in the kind of format he's following now.

I think LW is usually good, it's just her character who makes me want to throw things at my TV. I give her credit for being so convincing at portraying the beast. Why do the bad guys always have to be so stupid and toy with their prey? Just shoot Sonny, dude. No need to monologue and start ranting about wanting to toy with him and cause him to suffer. Just plug a few (dozen) bullets into him and call it a day. If you felt like picking off some of the rest of the attendees, just to make a point, I wouldn't be mad. As long as you kill Sonny's ass dead. You just can't get good help these days.

On the food round, Cory and Mitch were 10 minutes behind, but Jenna and Brianna were 30 minutes. It was 5 minutes per serving of food uneaten by the time limit. C/M had 2 items left, and J/B had 6. And then I got the impression that they were pretty significantly behind the others on the canoe race. They never showed us actual times on that (so we wouldn't be able to figure out how everyone was ranked by that point), but I got the impression it was a pretty decent lag time, given that they didn't seem to know how to paddle and they got stuck in a tree. Oh, and they were more than their time penalties behind in the eating challenge, since Jamie and Cara Maria actually finished. So they would be behind however much time those two finished before the time was up, along with their penalties for not finishing.

Please, she'll be monitoring everything she eats and drinks so nothing impure gets into the baby's breast milk supply. Nicole better hope she doesn't get sick "no, you can't take antibiotics, they'll get into the breast milk!!"

Claudette? Let me guess how that name came to be: "Hey, remember how Nathan speaks French? Let's think up a name for this girl from his past that sounds vaguely French!"

Isn't that how the Maya picture got up there, too, though? Rick made the change and Eric rubber-stamped it afterwards?

Agreed. If he doesn't get a nominee approved (which seems insane, so, decent odds of it happening, since insanity rules the day), and they lose control of the Senate AND Hillary or Bernie end up in the White House, then the next justice will be far less moderate than any appointee President Obama may try to make now. I've even seen some people suggesting that, if that happens, the Dem POTUS should nominate President Obama. Can you imagine the collective losing their shit the GOP would do over that? They're risking their as of now temporary control over the process and betting it on the most up in the air election season ever. It seems really, really stupid. Are they that arrogant that they really haven't even considered that they might lose their control in November? And if their plan is to wait until after the election to see if they win or lose, and then, if things don't go their way, try to push through approving someone, I hope President Obama withdraws his nomination and says that, "since this is the true lame duck period, I feel like the right thing to do is let the incoming President make this call."

Her anti-mob stance has always been very flexible.

What? You expected her to realize it when a bullet entered her skull during childbirth? Or while her oldest son was in a coma for a year or so after being shot by one of Sonny's many enemies?

Alexis: "You don't want to shoot a man in a wheelchair in front of his daughter." Me: "Do it! Do it!! DO IT!!!"

Also that bit about Obama filibustering a GWB nominee was a false equivalency. He was speaking out against a specific nominee, not just saying "we shouldn't hold hearings on anyone he nominates." Both sides have been doing that for years, and it wasn't even in an election year, if I recall correctly. Both sides have their agendas, and they will absolutely try to undermine the other side when their agendas conflict, we all know that. But, we've never had this level of the controlling parties in both houses just flat out saying "fuck that guy, we don't care what he does or how good it could potentially be for the country, we won't let him do a damn thing, and anything he does try to squeeze through, we're prepared to drown it in rhetoric until the clock runs out on his term."

I feel like I could make a joke here about Nik's assholishness being related mostly to one pole, but it seems kind of beneath me.

I just hope there's a camera trained on him and Kelly if he loses. You know they won't be able to hide their anger in that moment.

I was thinking "he must fancy himself an expert on the taste of sperm to be able to make that claim." And, yes, I'd be shocked if there isn't an eventual "he's been soliciting male prostitutes for years" reveal on this guy. I look forward to Jessica's coverage of that one. I loved her absolute glee that the guy looking to buy the building wants to turn it into a shelter for homeless LGBT youth. And I'm with her on that glee. It just doesn't get more perfect than that. I hope he's successful in getting that done.

The florists in Port Charles should start offering bouquets with hidden handguns in them. Alexis has mostly had tragic taste in men. Sonny, Ric, Jerry, Julian... (Not that I don't love Ric, but he was definitely not good for her beyond helping her fend off Sonny for a while.) By far, her best relationship with a man was her (unfortunately) platonic relationship with Jax.

I'm sure Bill would welcome her there with open arms. Katie...not so much.

I'd be surprised if Alexis didn't keep her name. It would seem so out of character.

Seriously. At this point, I'd be begging out of every social invitation. If it was something I absolutely could not miss, I'd be attending in a bullet proof vest, under a suit of armor, covered with a haz-mat suit. These people have all lived there long enough to know better.

I think Frank is trying to win him one, but that doesn't rule out some other behind the scenes person not liking him. Of course, I'm mostly just joking, because I know that, if I worked with someone like BryDog, I'd absolutely be trying to find ways to get him to show his ass one more time so he'd get canned. Surely, someone at GH must feel the same way?

Yes. If I remember correctly, his character was involved with Kelly, right around the time Kelly and Donna opened that clothing store.

Exactly. Shoot her again, just to make sure you hit just the right spot so she can't survive.

Maybe someone behind the scenes is trying to get him fired and figured it wouldn't take long before he lost his shit over a rude question?

Well, he does have the Sonny seal of approval, so he's not as much of a loser as someone who has all that qualities and isn't Sonny-approved. I'd like her more if she thinks Uncle Jerry is WAY cooler than Uncle Sonny.