Author: Graeme McMillan

According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the showrunners looked at spelling out that connection on-screen, but after Hand’s death last season, they didn’t want to become “the people who killed off two lesbians on the show.” (Actual quote.)

That would indeed look crappy, given that the only presentation of a same-sex relationship in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date was an unsavory joke about situational homosexuality in prisons. But the show never actually established that Victoria Hand was a lesbian, and it never actually established that Isabelle Hartley was a lesbian.

So now the showrunners get to be the people who killed off two lesbians without ever telling anyone that they were lesbians.

Good work, team.

Here’s a tip for future queer content: less killing, more kissing.

Brian Howard, 36, of Naperville, Illinois, was charged Friday with destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities, a felony. When paramedics found him, he was trying to cut his own throat, according to the criminal complaint. The FBI said Howard remains hospitalized and no court date has been scheduled.

The fire halted all traffic in and out of O’Hare and Midway airports. Delays and cancellations rippled through the air travel network from coast to coast after the fire. The ground stoppage at O’Hare and Midway raised questions about whether the Federal Aviation Administration has adequate backup plans to keep planes moving when a single facility has to shut down.

By Friday night, more than 2,000 flights in and out of Chicago had been canceled. Flights resumed after a five-hour gap, but planes were moving at a much-reduced pace, and no one could be sure when full service would be restored.

Not yet. I’m always curious to see what happens when comic books are translated to the screen. Someone whose opinion I respect said [“Gotham”] is just a mood piece with Easter eggs, but I’ll reserve judgment till I see it.

There are a few things you should probably know about FIDE—or the Federation Internationale des Echecs, if you’re feeling continental. FIDE is, by all accounts, comically corrupt, in the vein of other fishy global sporting bodies like FIFA and the IOC. Its Russian president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who has hunkered in office for nearly two decades now, was once abducted by a group of space aliens dressed in yellow costumes who transported him to a faraway star. Though I am relying here on Ilyumzhinov’s personal attestations, I have no reason to doubt him, as this is something about which he has spoken quite extensively. He is of the firm belief that chess was invented by extraterrestrials, and further “insists that there is ‘some kind of code’ in chess, evidence for which he finds in the fact that there are 64 squares on the chessboard and 64 codons in human DNA.”