Same here, except as a gay man I was really uncomfortable the first time my future husband tried to suggest we have bareback sex. We had been monogamous for a few years by then so really it wasn't theoretically dangerous (provided we could trust each other not to cheat) but having the idea of always using a condom…

One stipulation Obama put in place was that in order to receive Medicare funds hospitals are not allowed to discriminate against same-sex couples. That is, they can't ban a same-sex spouse from their loved one's bedside as not being next of kin. That could come up with these kinds of "religious freedom" measures in…

I think she's just egging on those rumors to get media time but I doubt she actually wants to talk to anyone who might have the power to talk back as an equal, like Rosie would. (Actually, Rosie would probably have more power as a more proven draw to audiences. Her year on The View saw ratings jump. Even if she's had…

I can't remember the exact details but there was a report saying McCain was definitely out of the running.

Huh. I didn't know about the biting pic, the one I saw (because Ball chose to put it on screen for a segment discussing it) was one where her boyfriend was wearing a hat with horns and she was grabbing one of the horns like it was a dick.

With Bill Wolff taking over (I hope), I have a feeling Nicole Wallace has an advantage. She may be a Obama Rage Channeler on Morning Joe (I hear) but whenever she appears on The Rachel Maddow Show (which Wolff produces) she's calm, she listens to what Rachel says and responds like she paid attention (which is the…

Chris Hayes found a few but it's pretty hard finding a conservative pundit that can participate in a conversation instead of skimming and looking for the closest appropriate talking point.

That's a great interpretation.

Sigh. I used to work at an office near a post office with a Philatelic Center. It was amazing because they had the most complete selection of stamps. If you care about which stamp goes on your mail, it's a dream.

Cupp with her interrupting and her constant strawmanning wouldn't be much different than bringing Hasselbeck back.

Janet Mock would make things amazing.

This. For all the shouting down the OP is getting, no matter how many positions you agree on, you're siding with people who, when they let their guard down, will either say obviously bigoted things or make excuses for the people who say bigoted things. (Even utterly insulting excuses like saying that African-Americans…

I don't think I heard about Pillars of Eternity until now. I have to admit, an Obsidian game not built on top of another game. I am intrigued.

I passed on The Witcher after playing the demo and getting the impression the NPCs suffered from Smurfette syndrome. Was the actual game better than the demo suggested? I'm a guy and I'm tired of games where one character is "the female one".

Sadly, the Planescape creators didn't do such a good job with women themselves.

I think the failure of Hall's show says more about how hard it is to launch a late night talk show in syndication and how hard it is to launch a talk show overall. Hall's first show was lightning in the bottle, it launched right after he was a hit on Fox's The Late Show.

As much as I love Barbara Gordon, I would so be on board for Felicity becoming the CW's Oracle.

Isn't Felicity a bit of an Oracle stand-in tho?

FWIW, Spider-Woman isn't a female version of Spider-Man. The original version was created for trademark reasons. The original Spider-Woman comic even avoided guest-appearances by Spider-Man, who used to be a tradition with new Marvel titles.

Personally, I think they should do a whole fake-out where they secretly sign Sackhoff to a Captain Marvel movie but announce that the movie won't be happening... but as a consolation Sackhoff has agreed to appear in an Agents of SHIELD arc as Carol Danvers. Tell an origin story in the SHIELD arc and then announce that…