It’s a more perfect example of privilege than that. She’s the plaintiff because the lawyer who went plaintiff-seeking because he’s a racist who wants to destroy affirmative action is an OLD FRIEND OF HER FATHER’S. I think he might even be a college buddy of her father’s.

Yes, the legacy pissed off that legacy…

Although, having starred your comment, I’m kind of rooting for Kroenke to move the team without permission, just for the fuck you to the NFL and popcorn consumption value.

— Another resident of Los Angeles

Is the “he” in question Sanders? Because the evidence is that he is the ONLY Democratic nominee who could pass stuff. He already gets things through, and although the institutional incentives will change for the Republican Party if he’s in the White House, there’s already polling that he might flip some Congressional…

The polling, demographics and poli sci stuff indicates strongly that he could ALREADY win in the General. His problem is getting past the Clinton machine in the primaries, where voters are indicating they may voting against their interest out of lack of information about him, misguided fear or tribal loyalty to “Team…

The Republican Party is a minority party nationally. It starts out at a disadvantage in the Electoral College. He does not have majority support yet within the party. Polling indicates that a majority of the American people disagree with his ideas about Muslins, and immigration policy generally.

Now, that doesn’t mean…

I think it’s a mistake to characterize this kind of thinking as “stupid”. There’s plenty of irrationality, motivated reasoning, and other fallacious logic displayed on a daily basis by people who are at least at the median in terms of functional intelligence. The other issue with that idea is that there’s probably a…

It’s still the case that legally, Vermont seceded from New York. You’re trying to imply a closeness between Vermont and New Hampshire that historically and currently doesn’t exist. They are very small states, and they are side by side, but for various reasons, including culture reinforcement due to self-selected…

Sanders has never been elected as a Democrat.*

Vermonters are not libertarians.

Vermont seceded from New York, not New Hampshire.

* I believe he has now registered as a Democrat, and he has always caucused with the Democrats in Congress. He also better reflects current values and policy preferences among Democratic…

That’s not accurate. New Hampshire’s culture and demographic makeup is VERY diffferent from Vermont’s. When he announced, she was way, way above him in the NH polls. Believe me, it is not a good sign for HRC that NH Dems are moving away from her.

Perhaps the question should be, “What will happen in the primaries if Clinton loses her ability to suppress Sanders’ outreach to Democratic constituencies that his views and policies better support and represent?”

Niners at Browns: Nope.

If he’s alcoholic, that’s probably not going to work. Both my parents were alcoholic, and my SIL was an addict. The Browns have handled this horribly, and possibly things worse. But in the end, he sobers up or doesn’t for his own reasons on his own terms. They can cut him or play him. They can stop with all this…

OTOH, his record trumps Schiano’s by a mile, right? Every now and then I break down and watch NFL Live, and I am always stopped dead in my tracks by them giving Schiano these “expert analysis” segments. He failed spectacularly at coaching NFL football. Why am I supposed to be listening to him? I know there’s an…

I’m so sorry for what you meant through. I hope the way you wrote about your experience here is an indication that you’re healing.

Unapologetically earning a job? You mean by marrying a guy, standing by his side as he exploits other women, raising your profile primarily by supporting your husband in his ambitions, supporting policies like stripping poor mothers of food and money to take care of their children, enthusiastically supporting wars of…

Electing Hillary would only have a misguided connection to feminism. She’s not a feminist in her private or public behavior, has harmed women domestically and internationally and would continue to do so if elected President.

I realize we’re not all going to agree about that. It’s factually accurate, however.

Would you accept whiny, Shitty Bill, or are you more interested in defending the Bush family ethos?

My Great Aunt drove an ambulance on the front lines during the Great War, when she was still under age, as a volunteer, starting before America entered the war. She was in personal danger all day every day. She started…

I’ve thought about it, actually. I pitched a movie about her a long time ago, but there’s no money for that kind of story. She was an awesome and tragic figure. There’s SO MUCH MORE to her story.

He’s braver than his sons, I’ll give you that.

She ran away from boarding school at 17 to serve as an ambulance driver on the front in France during World War I. She then flew around the world in a two seater plane with a girl friend in the 20s, visiting places where they were often the first Western women ever to go.…

Fun fact! My aristocratic Great Aunt once told me (while puffing on a cigarette at the Cosmopolitan Club, IIRC) that GHW Bush peed on her lap when he was like six. She didn’t think much of the family. The implication was that they’re all cowardly sissy-boys.