Have you seen the picture of Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin strolling together through the halls of Congress? Because that cheered me up.

Yes! Spreading the gospel of breakfast tacos, queso, and margaritas. I don't understand why other places don't have breakfast tacos. They aren't hard to make. Just take breakfast and wrap it in a tortilla. Duh.

Yeah! See, I keep trying to explain to people: Obama got 41% of the vote. Sure, 59% is plenty to keep Texas red, sure, 41% isn't enough, but it's still an awful lot of people. We are a minority, but there are still LOTS of us. It's not like Texas goes 75/25, and often I think Liberals here don't bother to vote because…

From what I understand of the way different parts of Texas voted, it really should be Austin, plus San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and MAYBE Fort Worth if they ask nicely. I live in Austin, but I grew up in FW, and have noticed that FW is totally on the right track to become a great, liberal place to live. It …

Maybe the idea is that Dublin Dr. Pepper could be a thing again! They can't call themselves that anymore, but you can still get the good stuff from Dublin with the real sugar if you look. The Dublin Dr. Pepper will rise again!

IF WE LEAVE WE TAKE OUR BBQ AND OUR BREAKFAST TACOS WITH US!

I just hope he doesn't actually pick John Kerry because then there's going to be a whole other senate race, and the media will spend forever analyzing how Kerry leaving the Senate will affect the balance of power in congress and on and on and on, and I'm tired.

I don't think anyone is preventing her from speaking. They are just preventing her from getting paid to speak at a university which they also attend. It's important also to see that the university didn't forbid it. The college Republicans were encouraged by their fellow students to reconsider their choice, and the…

Now how to make this happen. . .

You would face a battle from parents, but maybe there is a way to market it so as to minimize that. I like the idea in your last sentence too. On a similar note, I've long thought that kids (of BOTH genders) need to take home ec and learn how to clean, get stains out of things, cook some affordable healthy meals, and…

You know, this idea's got legs. Like, they should probably still learn some math and read/discuss some good books, learn a little history, but even those tasks might be better accomplished if they spent more time DOING things, building things.

You fall into what is for me, a conversation sweet spot. We disagree enough to keep it interesting, but not so much that we can't understand and respect each other. I agree with a lot of libertarianism in principle, though I sometimes think the world isn't good enough (yet at least!) for aspects of it to work in…

By the way, I love that both our user names are Whedon-verse references :-)

And I am so glad you did.

You know, I agree with a lot of what you say, but I could never vote for Romney. I think his economic policies would be disastrous, and I don't see social issues as a distraction from "real" issues. As for regulations, Obama has actually simplified and removed a lot of regulation from small business, and I don't…

You might be right. I've thought of it before in almost the opposite way, which is that 6th grade, age 11 is possibly the worst time to move out of our small elementary schools into a giant zoo of a middle school, and that the districts that keep 6th in elementary are on the right track. So I blamed some of the hell…

"there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement."

Absolutely. But as long as we keep the discourse civil, calling her out on this kind of thing can only help her evolve like you and I did. We don't need to get too upset about it, but using it as an opportunity to educate is a good idea. For instance, I really hope that she reads feedback to her piece and learns that…

True, but people should call this shit out every single time, no matter how predictable it is. That's how people, including the writer of the college newspaper piece, learn.

Wow, tell me again how helping people who are in his immediate circle makes up for him wanting to kick kids with congenital heart defects off of insurance should their parents ever have a gap in employment? I didn't realize that a man's personal ability and willingness to help his friends completely wipes out all the…