Ged's red, baby. Ged's red.

Exactly. It's a real chore to cram a Faulkner novel into a week.

Whenever I read a Willa Cather I feel like I should be bored, as her style and plot lines are so simple and straightforward, but I always enjoy her stuff.

I read an interview with LeGuin where she said said she hadn't put a lot of thought into making Ged 's skin red and she was surprised by the amount of correspondence she received from people of color who were psyched to read a sci-fi/fantasy novel with a non-white person as the protagonist.

Working is a tremendous book, but it was depressing to realize that the vast majority of the people in the book were slogging through jobs they didn't care about and/or hated.

I'm still working on Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, which I still think is good but overrated. I finished the Germany section, which I thought was the weakest part of the book and also featured the second thinly written husband character.

And remember, MRAs are a large powerful bloc in this country and not a handful of screwballs that most people don't even know exist.

I know, usually the shortsleeve shirt and tie combo makes guys look like a dorky substitute teacher.

That would explain how Jethro Q. Walrustitty came in ahead of Jeb Bush…

"Then I saw how the world works." Exactly the kind of attitude that guarantees the world keeps working like shit.
And I'm so old I voted for John Anderson.

Unfortunately it is more and more being reported as a Clinton win, despite her margin being only .3 percent and the fact that she went 6 and 0 in the coin flip precincts.

Bernie will appoint progressive judges too. And I'm not buying that the candidate with the negative favorable rating is more electable than the candidate with a positive one.

Or Sarah Palin.

We're kind of Monty Python mature and sophisticated. Novel Writing with Thomas Hardy one moment, The Dirty Vicar the next.

You obviously never read Blaze comments. (God knows why I do.) Blaze commenters think Cruz is a brilliant Constitutional scholar and the second coming of Christ.

Yeah but when one side is pushing for free public colleges then genuine student loan reform and ten thousand dollar Pell grants finaced by a smaller tax increase actually seem like a reasonable compromise. At this point things are so tilted to the right that it needs an over tilting to the left to pull Congress back…

The GOP has gone from being covertly anti-women, anti-minorities, anti-the working class and anti-environment to being overtly so. That makes it pretty hard to win a Presidential election, even if your opponent is as unlikeable as Hillary.

Be dispassionate and objective like me and dress up like Two-Face and flip a coin.

There's always Hulu.

"It's the Klan - we're here to save your virtue from that evil black man!"
"Could you come back in, say, an hour or so?"