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I didn't say Brad was out of character, he is very much in character. What I said was in so many words was it was odd he hadn't learned from the experience. He is still trying to be JP, the Controller, but he hasn't figured out how to control from behind yet. You control by co-opting others positions. You lay out the scenario for people and direct them to the outcome you want. When they stray off the path you want them on you guide them back by asking questions, not by pulling them back on path. I still Will is a bit out of control, he doesn't see the big picture. He wants to be Will, the 14 year old going on 22, he has to show maturity not petulance and that he gets the big picture.

"Shee-it, ya call that drama?" he drawled, "T'ain't no one dies or any of them aero-planes crashes..... " This is minor drama in the annals of the CAP Clan. The only issue I have is that I think Brad would have been more supportive of Will and talked to Will about all that was going on. I think he learned that lesson when Will ran away. If Michael took the pictures and Jeanine encouraged him to send them, that is pretty much trafficking in child pornography, something the US takes pretty seriously. Surely Brad knows that and would use that as leverage to dump Michael and silence him and the same for Jeanine.

The numbers are completely meaningless to being with. So what if you are 86% certain that you are 74% gay, you would then be 63.64% gay. So what does being 63.64% gay mean? What is 100% gay? Is it just about who you sleep with and lust after? If you are 1% straight or even 36.36% straight, does your mother think therefore you are going to marry a girl and live a straight life? Let mom know we are in modern times now. She can still have oodles of grandkids from you. Let her know you will lead a perfectly normal life and she can still cry at your wedding one day.

US women got behind France 2-0 in their opening round soccer game, but reeled off 4 straight goals to crush the frogs 4-2.

The punishment is outrageous. I am not a Penn State fan, the furthest thing from it, but this seems like political correctness run amuck. Yes we are all against child molestations and the covering up of them, but those are criminal and civil matters, they are not under the purview of the NCAA. The Penn State football program didn't violate any NCAA regulations as to recruiting or player or coach conduct. To remove wins from players who never knew a thing about what was happening is absurd. And it isn't just the football program that suffers now, I am sure at PSU that football paid for all the other programs too so now all the women's sports and all the men's minor sports will suffer and some may be dropped because they can not afford them any more. I've never liked the NCAA, I think......, no I KNOW, they are completely clueless about collegiate athletics and this just further proves the point. I hope an PSU alum group or the Paterno family sues the NCAA.

I am pulling for Thorbjørn Olesen.

I hope Jeannie and JJ drive off a cliff in Malibu..... both are just annoying.... I think we shift back to Wade now for a couple of chapters...... one has to wonder what has happened to the seed that Wade planted with his sister.

Dude, what happened to your staff and editors, "“Do you?” I she asked." Fire them all!! Cool chapter. Unbelievable how stupid Michael is. Lost an easy, well paying gig being petulant. I am sure he signed a confidentially agreement as most household staff have to in a family like the Schluters and I am sure that Brad will remind him that there could be really serious consequences for violating that.

I hope its that little hussy Kirsten!

Help my memory here. Isn't Will Jeannie's natural child and JJ the adopted son of Bitty's? I mean I get that JJ is the only person who actually needs Jeannie, but I'd think there is more maternal instinct there than we have seen so far. I get Brad's mother's antipathy towards him since he was a reminder to her of the fling/affair she had with his father and she transferred her feeling for the father to Brad, but Jeannie is different. Of course JJ has a relationship with Robbie and Brad,as much or more than most 14 year old kids of two high powered working parents. Just because it hasn't been a big topic doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We haven't seen a lot about the academic side of Brad and Robbie since graduating college, but both went to very high powered institutions with very strong alumni groups, especially Princeton with its eating halls, and to me it is inconceivable that both haven't maintained relations with the universities and fellow alums, but there just isn't space in the stories to show every aspect of their daily lives and interactions. We just have time and space to see slivers. I do think that two Ivy League fathers (with a grandfather who is a department chair and the second most prestigious university in the Bay Area) would be on their kids like white on rice about academics and their futures. There have been comments in the past about Darius not being a scholar, but that can't be true. He got into a service academy that has very high standards and then he went to Santa Clara that while it isn't Yale, Princeton or Cal, is a hard school to get into with a good academic reputation and his decision wasn't based on being turned down by Cal or UCLA, but rather than on being close to his girlfriend. Have Brad and Robbie been all over JJ's skating? No, but it has just gotten serious lately in the last year to eighteen months and there has been a lot going on. I do think JJ will come to regret driving a wedge between Will and himself, particularly if Jeannie goes away again and now Will, his best backer besides her, is estranged from him. I don't find Stef's attitude unusual. I think he is a bit frustrated with his 14 year old grandson who thinks he is 24, but refuses to grow, mature and think before he goes off the deep end. I think Will needs to realize how much he needs his family and he can't keep doing things to push them away. I hope Jeff reveals more to Will about what it is REALLY like to have "no parents" or family that give a shit about you and how he came to live in a youth shelter. We have seen flashes of Will recognizing this, but not the full slap in the face reality of Jeff's life or the other kids in Father Tim's care.

Cool chapter, I do think Will needs to do some more growing up. He IS still 14 years old, I can't imagine a hotel actually checking in a 14 year old, even in Europe. I get Stef, he is a little impatient with Will because Will is refusing to see the big picture in decisions he makes, he is still making them impulsively and immaturely. I think that is part of what Claire was saying to him.

Well forgive me for being a cynic, but did Mr. Freeh speak with Mr. Paterno before he passed away? It seems to me it would be rather easy to blame the dead guy who can't explain what here did and did not do.

Wade who?

Oh gawd, do you enjoy watching water freeze too?

Ummm, that would be the Dr. Suess Library at UC San Diego designed by the brilliant William L. Pereira who also did The Encounter at LAX The Transamerica Pyramid The Pacific Life Building And the Sheraton Doha, to name of few of his accomplishments.

I am going with "blot on landscape", or maybe "blight" is more appropriate.

Trouble is Matt is you seem to be a "major" sports guy. As someone who played water polo and wrestled freestyle and Greco-Roman, the Olympics, every four years, is our one chance to shine in the biggest stage there is. Wrestlers dreams don't stop at an NCAA title, your ultimate dream is a gold at the Olympics. As a water polo player your options are almost nil after college, there is no US pro league to go into. Friends of mine from my playing days like Layne Beaubien, Merrill Moses, Adam Wright and Ryan Bailey, who are all on the US national team all have real jobs and the hours they put into the US team are above and beyond their "real lives". It is a huge deal. Even then guys like Ryan Bailey, who turns 37 next month, won't get 1/10 of the exposure of some little sh!t 14 yo gymnast for the 25 or so years he has devoted to the sport. But the little exposure he might get is still 100x what he got for being in the 2011 FINA World Championships. I don't have much patience for the teenie bops in the Olympics, but the weight lifters, wrestlers, decathletes, marathoners and others who toil for years to get to this level, I am happy for them to have a glimmer of glory. If you have never been to an Olympics, you can not begin to imagine the experience.

These are interesting clues. So it sounds like Mr. Arbour is setting up Will to move to Paly to give JJ some space, but I think Brad would kick out Jeannie (while buying her a house in the Colony) rather than let Will move because of her or JJ.

Its not really a change at all. It is formal recognition of what has been going on for a long time. My lesbian great aunt and her partner of 37 years are both deacons in the Episcopal Church and Sarah is a lay minister.

So I forget, are Brad and Jeannie legally married? I think Jeannie needs more time at Shady Pines.... maybe permanently. I do think Will continues to show some bad judgment, especially with Evan and maybe even Shane. It is like he doesn't care about the impact that association with them could have on them, only on what is going to please him. It is more of the same self indulgent Will that bugged me when he ran away. I still don't see Will giving up Malibu and surfing and Ryan or his other H-W friends for Paly even if Jeannie is being crazy.

This may be a shocker to you but BMW, Mercedes Benz and Range Rover are all European cars

Not in Malibu. Hummer, BMW, GMC,Benz, Range Rover.

Aaron Tveit? That is more like Alister at 27. I see Mark Arbor more Clooney like. Which would make this a young Mark Arbour. Maybe the face is wrong but I am sure the hair is right

I don't think Will realizes how luck he is and what a bubble he lives in. He's had glimpses of the realities of life in his short time on Oahu and with the glimpses into Ryan's and Jeff's lives and even his time at the mission, but I think he needs more mission time to remind himself a lot of kids don't have the kind of options he does. I do agree with the worries on becoming jaded and cynical. I've seen that a lot in the world of privilege AND the gay world and Will has a foot in each.