Meanwhile, any word from any candidates representing the party that supposedly exists to curtail the overreach of government power?

I’m assuming the father of Sophia’s child is dead. Because in a feminist utopia, wouldn’t he be responsible for at least half of the childcare responsibilities (or, if the baby can’t be bottle-fed, at least be the primary caregiver for 3 or 4 hours in the early evening)? Sophia needs Sophia time. Even when she’s…

My money's on "one of these violent Trump supporters will kill soon."

It’s a damn shame that Laura Nyro is no longer with us, as “Save The Country” was pretty much written for a Sanders campaign and I think they’d be good friends and political allies. Possible Bernie songs:

“Teenage Dream” is creepy as well, not that I didn’t spend undue time lobbying a DJ friend of mine to do a Katy Perry/Steely Dan remix called “Hey Nineteenage Dream.”

I’m a guy, but it seems like the irony of being told you’re “condescending and bossy” or “hysterical and emotional” by someone who’s taken it upon himself to police your behavior and attitude like a babysitter and can't stop himself from reacting personally/emotionally to you just doing your job has to generate a lot…

Yeah, it’s a bad visual. It lends itself to many images of women being oppressed. (Especially Lazio; I mean WTF?). And any group of powerful people that doesn’t include women is a bad visual to begin with. It’s just that the substance of Clinton’s testimony taken by itself was enough to show that she took her job more…

Finally. For too long we’ve waited for Aaron Sorkin to write about a precious white dude who’s heroically right all the time, and difficult to be around because he’s so heroically right all the time - but he’s earned the right to be! - who struggles with a borderline-sociopathic need for everyone to love him because,…

Agreed. I’m not an expert in foreign policy but as a supporter of Planned Parenthood, it’s a mistake to think that being smart *and* having a strong argument isn't what made Richards shine in the face of overwhelming stupidity. If, say, Kim Davis was being grilled by a room full of angry old men, the visual would have…

That lawsuit was a completely selfless act. Justice will never be done; no damages can make up for a second’s worth of lost time with a loved one. No amount of money can justify the ordeal of reliving what she’s been through for a minute, let alone an entire trial. You file a wrongful death lawsuit like that to help…

Conspiracy theory: Paul Ryan really doesn’t want this job. Wanting to spend more time with family is a phony excuse because he really doesn’t want this job. Wanting to spend more time with family didn’t stop him from campaigning to be Mitt Romney’s VP, which required copious time away from family (not to mention he…

Gotta’ love GOP “The future belongs to whoever yells the LOUDEST" logic.

Stopping at nothing, sparing no expense and undertaking staggering effort to divert public attention away from “anything at all to do with fact-finding, accountability, justice, national security, or any other subject worthy of discussion” is Rule #1 in the Republican playbook. Cultivating and exploiting a culture of…

I’m a Sanders supporter who thinks that progressivism would benefit from the Clintons (and the Democrats’ bewildering love for the Clintons) forever being remembered as an example of how democracy can be rigged to ensure that the most vulnerable members of society have no meaningful political representation. I won’t…

This has been a recurring theme in my life: young people I thought were cool, edgy and badass because they didn’t give a fuck turning into old people I find repulsive, crotchety and mean because they don’t give a fuck.

Pinkham really doesn't enjoy the poop stories.

Do you think the school actually took/is taking the allegations seriously and doing right by its students, or do you think the school just wants to convince parents and donors that it’s doing right by its students in order to maintain its profile? Is there a culture of empowerment where students are encouraged to…

Also he can have contact with all the male minors under 18 that he wants. Because rape is just sex and not at all about power/control/exploitation.

Thanks for filling me in. I’ve always wondered about that. I went to college around NYC. While a lot of the professors struck me as ex-hippies who would’ve purchased vast acreage in Dutchess County in the ‘70s and commuted in old Volkswagen busses from their mini hog farms, pretty much all of them lived in the city…

He was acquitted of the rape charges and all other felonies except soliciting sex with a minor via social media. In other words, soliciting sex with a minor via social media was the only felony conviction he got.