I got certified (Schwinn) last year! It was actually fairly... easy? Especially because it’s a one day or one weekend thing, versus yoga/YTT- where that is an actual time commitment. So, certification is easy- but what I learned was, I don’t know if I would actually end up being a good instructor. It’s really fucking…

In Chicago, studios went down from 55-60 bikes to 10-15. I still didn’t go and felt that it wasn’t right. I know Atlanta and NYC had moved a lot of their bikes- or rather, made “studios”outside. But... what I miss (and I know this sounds dumb) was being in a very loud DARK ROOM where nobody can really see me. So the…

Press, who now teaches in two studios in Westchester, New York, has a full schedule this week with two of his Bronxville classes so full that riders are being waitlisted.

Really great take. The sad thing is that spinning is actually a really accessible fitness activity for many folks new to exercise. Fun, intense cardio without as much strain on certain joints. (Obvi depends on resistance, etc., and it’s not true for everyone). But the aesthetic of SC and a lot of other boutique spin…

Uh, gay marriage  happened because the Supreme Court ruled in favour of it. Have you seen who’s on the Court these days? And who votes in Supreme Court justices?

I admire SoH’s patience...BAO comes across as the person in a meeting who holds everyone else hostage by way of a blathering filibuster.

Look, you’re the one expressing basic ignorance on the topic.

“Poll after poll during the primary showed that even though Biden was handily winning the primary, majorities of Democratic voters supported a policy, Medicare-for-All, that Biden didn’t support.”

This disproves nothing that the original comment said. 

Show me where you’re getting that from what I wrote?

Um, sorry but I’d rather have lost the serious left-leaning Dems in the House but won the Senate...

But where were all those Democrats who support Medicare for All? Certainly not in red states or there would have been enough of them to win the Senate for Democrats. Yes, in terms of numbers, Democrats have majority, and sure, in terms of numbers, maybe most of them support Medicare for All But it’s a moot point…

Biden did win - the Presidency. But Democrats lost big in the House, failed to win the Senate and they lost majorities in State legislatures. And no, I’m not saying progressives should have sat out, I’m saying they are not the dominant force within the Democratic party that they think they are, and they need to…

Maybe in the long term but right now the base is not the left, if it were Sanders would have been the nominee and this election, other than electing Biden, wouldn’t have been the down-ballot disaster that it was for Democrats, who not only failed to win the Senate, they’re barely holding onto their majority in the…

I mean, it was pretty obvious that Biden’s primary win was less about his policies than the perception that he was the safest choice to beat Trump. Poll after poll during the primary showed that even though Biden was handily winning the primary, majorities of Democratic voters supported a policy, Medicare-for-All,…

“We’re not Biden-obsessed,” Cohen said. “We’re obsessed with transferring power within the Democratic Party to the base, and the base stands for social justice.”

Agree. That response just opens the door to someone explaining how they love their kids and I just don’t know what I want.

Dolly is too classy to say, “What the fuck is it to you and why the fuck do you think you have the right to ask that?”

I never found that response to work very well. For many people, telling them you don’t want kids is like telling them you don’t want oxygen...they are unable to imagine someone not wanting something that, to them, everyone should want. As far as they are concerned, children are a basic necessity of life and saying you…