That sounds fabulous because it's just a nice thing you're doing. When I'm having a bad day, there's something hugely validating in having another person recognize that I'm sad. The fact that said person would then go out of his way to try to cheer me up would almost certainly perk me up a little bit. The only way I…

So where do they stand now? Are we expecting them to write up a new & improved Voting Rights Act to supersede the one that SCOTUS gutted? I'm living overseas right now so it's hard for me to tell what the level of popular pressure is on the VRA. It doesn't seem to be a hot topic.

I also had a client whose official documentation was in Trebuchet with Calibri headings. Let me repeat that: Computer software manuals with smatterings of code examples (in Courier, as is right and proper) written in Trebuchet. Treb. Yoo. Shey.

The double space after a period. Oh. Oh that one is the WORST. I worked for a software company for 2 years as their tech writer. I TOLD them it was wrong. Their counter-argument was basically, "Well it looks right to me."

"I don't mean it in a sleazy way, I just like admiring beautiful women."

Thinking is awesome. The fact that you've already limited yourself to things you'd say to a dude is likewise awesome.

I'd so love to just hop in a car, drive people to get their IDs, then drive them to the polls a few months later. Is it really that easy? I've heard so often that groups that trend Dem also tend to be the ones that have trouble obtaining government IDs, but I will readily admit that I don't have a good grasp of why.

By all means, take them, please!

I was seventeen and living in New York State on 9/11. During the following week, in which the newspapers and TV stations and radio ran nothing but stories on survivors, victims, culprits, and responses (and played Enrique Iglesias's "Hero" and Jewel's "My Hands" on endless repeat), I distinctly remember thinking,…

Yes, this. I would love to be part of a sustained, years-long effort to kick the dumbasses out of office. Too often it seems like there's an initial outcry, and then everyone moves on to the next atrocity. In order for this to matter, people have to still be upset about SB1 a year or two or three from now.

He seems to be kind of the lynchpin, right? If someone more reasonable (coughDemcough) were in office, this terrible bill would get to her desk and she'd just throw it in the trash. So how do we get Perry out of Texas?

Didn't the Supreme Court just kill that? I mean yes, I'm all for the VRA, but I thought they gutted the most important part of it last month. It seems like a lot of states went to work immediately to take advantage of that, which will only make it harder for people to vote.

Ooh! Perfect. Thank you for clarifying!

What's the bigger picture, though? I want to help, but I want to help effectively and right now I'm operating solely on rage. What's the smarter strategy that actually gets the power out of the hands of the Texas GOP? When money goes to the state central campaign fund, does it just get equally distributed? Is it more…

I'm with you, but I think that is the broad-strokes answer. I want the Nate Silver answer. I want to know which gerrymandered-to-fuck district in Texas I should move to. I want to know exactly how many of my dollars Wendy Davis needs in order to make a serious bid for Governor. I want to know which arguments I should…

Okay, I'm done. I'm full of rage. I want to take Texas from the GOP in 2016. I want to light it up blue. I want to see apocalyptic Facebook posts as the GOP watches its cornerstone state, the bedrock of its craziness, crumble into a sea of orange-T-shirt-wearing ladies waving tampons and maxipads in the air. I want…

Okay, this whole thing annoys me enough that I'm probably going to start a convo about it in tonight's open forum. What sort of unholy hell do we have to unleash in Texas to turn it blue in the 2016 election? It seems like the people and the will are there, it's just that there are major roadblocks in place to keep…

This should seriously be a thing. (And by "seriously" I mean I want someone to try it so I can watch the Texas lawmakers twist themselves in circles trying to reject it while upholding the logic they used on SB1.)

Not just significant - several times larger than the Aztec or Maya. If you're only going to include one of those 3, the Inca are the runaway winners in terms of space in the map. And yeah, Spain only controlled territory in an unbroken line from the Canadian border to Patagonia...at least worth an honorable mention?

Thanks! To be fair, I thought you had summarized it pretty succinctly to begin with.