It just seems like it would actually be easier to serve the American people. This evil is not even efficient.

Fun! And this will be a fiscally conservative impeachment compared to Bill Clinton because the lawbreaking is so rampant and obvious.

I mean, she said she didn’t WANT to feel that way. She didn’t say she wouldn’t power through that feeling for mad cash.

Yeah, I understand. I don’t disagree as I’ve never been a fan, and WV is so all in for Trump that he’s probably not going to last after 2018 anyway. I’m just saying there probably aren’t enough progressive Democrats who feel the way you do to get a decent Dem, and I’m not excited to find out what horrific boil of a…

Yeah, but it’s not a deal-breaker in West Virginia.

He is maybe a little... less smart? I fully believe he was running on the fumes of his own righteous indignation in this case.

I cynically think that this very soft statement about an obviously damaging attitude of Trump’s is just a tactic to make him seem more reasonable to liberals.

Seriously. I live in Georgia, and our Senators Perdue and Isaakson voted no with the speed and enthusiasm of responding to an easy jeopardy question. Our schools are generally awful, and charters and vouchers will be much harder on constituents in rural areas than those of us in falling-apart Atlanta (where there are…

Yeah, I’m wondering that too. Happy to use precious PTO, but equally happy to work from home and paint my nails. I have a couple of coworkers who can probably share valuable advice regarding getting absolutely nothing done during the workday; I will report back.

I don’t quite get the line of reasoning that without the electoral college, California would rule us all. California has a lot of votes because it is a geographically large state that is just chock full of voting American citizens, and their votes, when thrown into the pot, would count as much as everyone else’s. They…

This is great, but then I remembered that the act of believing really hard becoming an end unto itself is where forced birthers and their ilk come from. AHHHH.

Hearing earned criticism is in no way being turned away. It underscores how important it is to keep showing up now. We are behind the curve. I cannot believe you posted that.

Oh my goodness. The point of this article is to point out how white women have been failing women of color, and black women in particular, for... well basically forever. Like, Kellyanne Conway is one of us. That stings. I have been failing women of color too. That also stings. I feel ashamed, which is a shitty feeling…

Yeah, that area is a little different. I grew up really close to Ohio, though, and then lived in SW PA for a long time, and to be honest, there was still a difference. "Good ole boy" stupidity seems really tied up in the identity of many West Virginians. Like, identifying oneself as a "proud West Virginian" comes with…

If it helps (which... it won't), WV didn't bail on the Confederacy for any ideological reasons. Pretty much everyone in the state was too poor to have slaves, but there wasn't a lot of cultural opposition to it. It broke with Virginia mostly because the more affluent folks on the other side of the mountains exploited…

I hope she does run, because it would give me great pleasure to campaign against and vote against this nutjob.

But that's so haaaaaard! Let's make it about women working instead.

Aw! Thank you for following up. It actually went pretty well. Mostly she was mad at me for the way I handled it (I said something insensitive, which, fair enough) but we hugged/talked it out and things are basically fine now. Whew!

I actually told her before any of the texting happened, and she's been around every time I've hung out with the guy. I tried to talk to her about it the last time I saw her, but it was a no-go. I'm just going to wait it out, since we have a long car ride to go to a thing tomorrow, where the guy will be, so whatever,…

I see where you're coming from. This is why I like white elephant/bad santa gift exchanges—all the fun of giving/receiving, but none of the pressure and a health dose of ridiculousness.