Oh good, another "progressive" who thinks gay rights and gun control are "silly issues" instead of things that affect millions of people every day.

As per usual, Jon Stewart says it best: https://youtu.be/e1SlWYIFPF…

There have been otherwise qualified people who missed out on cabinet positions due to squirrelly tax issues, so I don't see why the president should be held to a lower standard.

They're pretty privileged too though, I bet. I mean, not that you'd know it from the posts by our resident Stein supporter, but the Green Party platform actually has a lot to say about access to birth control and child care. Those are issues that affect all women, but take a higher priority for privileged women (and…

Oh I know, I remember hearing about that briefing. And Bin Laden had been a known threat for some time, obviously. But wasn't it determined that the main problem was a huge failure of communication between the various intelligence agencies?* I don't know that any new occupant of the Oval Office would have been able to…

Hmm. He co-wrote Spinal Tap, but didn't direct it, and if we're not talking things he directed then honestly it's The Princess Bride for me, and then Tap.

I'm a straight lady, so while I have no objection to nice-looking boobs and butts, it's true that that's not where I tend to focus. I guess I can maybe see looking at Isla Fisher and seeing Amy Adams, but I can't imagine looking at Amy Adams and seeing Isla Fisher — which I suppose has as much to do with their…

There's gotta be something there, since I can't imagine Jamie Lee Curtis putting up with an unrelenting asshole for all these years. But yeah, I wouldn't want to work with him.

Huh. I don't get it at all. Aside from both being redheads, they don't look anything alike to me.

I think Levy's immune to it by now - they've been working together for so long I can't imagine what would have to happen for Levy to be like "Okay no, that's it, I'm out."

Yeah, finding out that Isla Fisher is in it as an Amy Adams double kind of puts me off seeing it, given that Fisher's more than once informed the press that people keep confusing her with Amy Adams and she doesn't get it because she's "so much smaller." Shut up, Isla Fisher. You are a lovely woman but no one thinks…

Get on watching Veronica Mars as soon as you can. The first season, particularly, is amazing.

I like Thomas Newman's work, but it does all start to sound the same after a while.

Well, and I don't think Iraq would have happened if Gore had won. The list of horrible things that would probably have happened no matter what includes 9/11, Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 meltdown, and possibly the Patriot Act. But Gore would have left Iraq alone, and yes, the environment would have been…

Except that the Atlantic one is the only piece with an explicit link between the Clinton campaign and portraying Obama as "un-American." The rest are he said/she said. You no doubt believe that there's no smoke without some fire, and I'd be inclined to agree with you on that. But once again, you are providing links…

Matt Zoller Seitz claims he's done the same thing (at Trump's behest) and the hair is real. I'd be inclined to cut my hand off afterwards, but maybe he felt a Silkwood shower was sufficient.

The report I saw on Clinton's departure from the ceremony said it was 83 degrees in lower Manhattan at the time.

I was confused by that too. Wasn't sure who "they" was supposed to be.

She apparently was brought in as a script doctor. Dunno whether that led to her playing the doctor or if she already had the role, but think about how dire the original script must have been.

Grant was great in that. He'd spent so long playing a Richard Curtis stand-in that it was a genuine surprise to see him play a sleazebag. Of course as it turns out Daniel Cleaver is a lot more like Grant's real personality than all those bumbling nice guys.