He chose not to defend Prop 8, and subtly supported marriage equality later in his term. Not enough to make him a good governor, but more than enough to sink him with the Republicans.

It fizzled because he was a shitty governor.

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There was also a thing that stuck with me from a few years ago - a doc in an AZ prison was using sugar to treat an infected c-section wound. Like, just pouring sugar into the wound. In his defense, sugar was used to treat infection…in 1900, before penicillin. Apparently he felt this prison bitch just wasn't worth the…

It's increasingly a political event, though. Biden's going this year, Comey was going to go, but canceled. They've had events to boost tech startups alongside political Q&As for quite a while now.

CA was sterilizing women in prisons without their consent as recently as 2010. Jerry Brown had to sign a law expressly forbidding it, presumably while thinking "FFS, it's the 21st century, how is it possible we have to spell this out?" It's likely still happening in one or two of our lovely shitholes.

end than, the mirders began, which was awsum, bcuz draco wuz doin them.

Yeah, I should've specified. I'm so sorry about your father.

For the record, wikipedia defines addiction as a "compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences." The citation is from American Society of Addiction Medicine, and they presumably know their shit.

Skin cancer? Practically every Aussie gets a scare or six, they have no ozone layer. It's very treatable these days, especially if one catches it early like most Aussies do (they're well trained for it). I wouldn't worry too much about him, he's still pretty young and clearly quite healthy *knocks on all available…

Well, I'm glad we can not be combative. I enjoy Reasonable Discussions. I came on a little strong, and I apologize. AA has saved my mother's life; alcoholism has taken almost all of my family from me (pro-tip: don't be Norwegian and Irish if you can help it.)

Oh, that must be why she made a list she knew was horrible and knew everyone else would think was horrible three months before she would need it and then didn't keep it locked up?
And yeah, she makes the tough calls, which Monty knows. She's saved his life like a dozen times, why is he giving her shit now? And why the…

Helpful. I was wondering if there was an alcoholism subplot in Logan, since I haven't seen it. I'll assume it's just a joke about Logan's RT rating.

What does Logan have to do with it?

Nah, aliens cause a singing outbreak and several heroes have to pull together to solve it. Rebecca Bunch sings and does law for Mayor Arrow while the CW heroes fight the aliens, Kara Danvers sings and reports, the vampires sing and [I don't watch the show, insert whatever they do here. Complain?] and Betty and…

I'd agree, but I'm pretty annoyed that the female characters are being torn down. Clarke is making bush league mistakes and apparently everyone has forgotten how much she's given up for them, because they're all shrieking at her for it. Octavia's plot line is…fine, I guess, except for the aforementioned ripoff and the…

The 100 has been bad enough this year that I'd be okay if this is its last. I went from wildly excited to extremely bummed. What happened to practicality-above-all and consequences and (within reason, considering it's almost all been done before) originality? The second most recent episode, with the complete Aragorn…

I gotta say, this isn't very well written. It implies that teens are drinking hand sanitizer to get a buzz, then later says almost as a parenthetical that really it's almost entirely the under-5 set drawn in by the fruity smell. Normally I wouldn't care, but every stupid thing like this gets blown out of proportion…

Newsom's pretty and talks good game, but he's a bit of a shitheel. Brown's a better choice.

Electing Al Franken.