JFC. Democrats are being handed this election to them on a silver fucking platter, and they want to set it on fire. Support your candidate, don’t denigrate the other, and whoever wins the nod, vote -D. It’s really not that fucking hard.

My media policy would be to record her and release that as far and wide as possible.

I like these ads.

Let's see how you would feel if your loved one was beaten to death for no apparent reason other than who they are. Let's see how you would feel.

Twelve?

Anna, get this kid to do a Jez post!

When Wasserman-Schultz overturned Obama’s ban on lobbying within the Democratic Party’s own primaries, she quietly and effectively undermined what Obama was able to do in salvaging his own party’s electoral process.

I’m convinced that he has a medical issue like early-onset dementia.

“Reagan/Bush ‘84"?

Yeah, I see what they were going for, but in their defense, it would have taken at LEAST another half an hour to find a person of color in Portland to run that name by.

I find it weird that here the boy fills out the dance cards. In Jane Austen books, there are references to saving certain dances for certain people, and they were relatives or friends that the young woman chose to dance with—not people she was “passed” to. The Christmas dance scene in Meet Me in St. Louis also has the…

The idea was not to get too “close” with your escort. Dances among friends alleviate any too strong hormonal urges and you end up having to get married right after graduation.

Personally I’d define it as one parent of one race and one of another race leaving out grandparents and great grandparents because hell many of us would be considered biracial given the history of slavery as she pointend out. And black because she identifies and is perceived as such.

I think half of it is we associate the style (makeup, dress, hairstyles) as old.

Speaking of getting engaged early, my mom and most of her friends were engaged by the age of 16 in 1958. Small town, old traditions, no education etc. But mom got a job, unlike most of her friends, and decided that she didn’t want to get married after all so broke it off. Her ex fiance didn’t want the ring back so she…

How is it possible that these people look to be an age where they are hitting puberty and menopause simultaneously?

It strikes me that teens in the 50's actually looked like they were 50.