We haven’t always done it. This is not a venerable tradition at all.

It’s easy to “speak truth to power” when you represent a tiny liberal state with no major manufacturing, no big banks, no extractive industries, and no military bases that will continue to elect you even if you get nothing done, as long as you keep speaking truth to powerful people who ignore you.

Yes, that is the entire point of what I said, which is that the Republicans count on us to argue over our high-minded ideals while they unite behind candidates who have none to win.

Someone who abandoned their independent status to run as a Democrat so he could take advantage of party infrastructure and fund raising insists that the party establishment showing a clear preference for a candidate whose voting record was ~95% identical to his but who did not continually attack the party…

One of the reasons I quit Twitter after the election is because I was tired of typing variants of “the Tea Party didn’t turn the Republican party to the right by turning up their noses and refusing to engage with it” or “the Left cares so much about ideals they refuse to unite behind an imperfect candidate, who loses…

Goddamn you for making me defend Cilliza!

No, but they ignored about three dozen assaults by their own athletes.

What does that even mean? He called her a “fellatrix,” for god’s sake, and then went on to talk about how she’d dated a series of rich, successful, influential men, all of whom dumped her.

I did that during the two-month interval between when my toaster broke and I found another one in one of the many, many free boxes I pass whenever I’m walking around Portland doing errands. It took only a couple weeks to find a replacement for my broken Brita pitcher.

The latch on mine broke a couple weeks ago. I took it apart, but I couldn’t fix it, and the repair places I called said they couldn’t repair a plastic part on such an old one either. My roommate is watching for them at Goodwills, but honestly, I’d probably do without if it wasn’t for our third roommate, who is old and…

Fun fact, when Allen presented her with a lifetime achievement award, he mentioned her cocksucking abilities. Classy.

I’ve said it before when a harasser wasn’t penalized severely enough for some folks, and will no doubt say it again; I don’t have a problem with this. What I have a problem with is harassers getting off scott free while victims get punished for reporting. A harasser getting demoted or having their pay docked, while…

I was pointing out to him how Baby Boomers are holding the party back, actually. ; )

I was pointing out to him how Baby Boomers are holding the party back, actually. ; )

I think Lindsay Graham is resigned to the fact that whatever dirt was found on him when Russia hacked the RNC is going to come out no matter what he does.

He’s old enough to remember the Kennedy presidency.

I was complaining about Kennedy to my roommate, who is 20 years older than I am, but he thought it was a great choice. I pointed out that the whole dynastic establishment thing was exactly what the Democratic Party needs to get away from. He said that people of his generation still were interested in what the Kennedys…

People were defending Franken not resigning because he shouldn’t have resigned, and the Dems who pushed him to were idiots. All their virtue signaling did was make Fox characterize them as a lynch mob.

“Insisting that racial or sexual bias be conclusively proved in every individual case is a favorite tactic of those who insist the system isn’t inherently racist or sexist. because you can’t. But when you look at data collected across departments across the country, you see massive differences in the way men and…

Like I said, you’re not here to listen, you’re just here to tell everyone that they’re wrong, because you typed all of that instead of just typing a fraction of the keystrokes into Google.