By sooner do you mean more than a month? Because even that sounds heavenly compared to here. I just read that Bill Clinton had wanted Hillary to declare in October like he did in 1991 and I remember him saying on Letterman than he wasn’t really active until December 1991 and that it was ridiculous how long the cycles…

No, I really don’t see where you are going. I guess I am not as idealistic as you (poor me)-I know we will never have a perfect candidate that has voted correctly on everything and been on the right side of history on everything. And I know that we will not somehow miraculously undo neoliberalism/Reaganomics and…

“I’ve said this before - if she wins, no one will be voting Dem for a LONG time after her term. “

Her campaign manager is gay and quite young.

That video put a smile on my face-I hate how bloated the election season is (I am jealous of the UK-I know they are a much much smaller country, but it would be nice to have a campaign as compact as theirs-4 to 5 months at most!) but this video is already a good sign. It’s obviously wait and see, but I hope and expect…

Sure. Theoretically. I’m black and the absolute worst teacher I had in grad school was black-sometimes I think in a majority white setting, the black teachers (or to be more accurate, it’s usually teacher-there is usually only one) bends over backward to look like he or she is not favoring the black students because…

“I’m not saying this to be overtly or casually racist, nor am I being overtly or casually sexist when I’m saying Hillary may get or may hope to get the female vote. “

I think a lot of the people already boasting that they won’t vote for her are the same actually-it’s not out of any principles-it’s just out of boredom with her and her family. Which...OK, whatever. I don’t think boredom with one woman trumps wanting a sane competent replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but I guess…

Wow-that’s a slippery slope. So when Obama won 90+% of the black vote, was that because black people were blind to anything else? And apart from race, was Obama that different from a Conservative Democrat-he and Hillary basically agreed on everything during the primary.

“she has so much baggage right now”

No one likes her...except Andy Cohen. So, she stays.

I heard someone say that Cruz is smart (very much so) but he's smart in the way a trial lawyer or a champion debater is smart-they can argue a crackpot theory that even they don't believe in into the ground. And they never change their minds or evolve. They have their debating brief and they are in it to win it. That…

Except he *has* bought into it-when he was at Harvard Law, he was notorious for saying he would only study with people who went to Harvard, Yale or Princeton undergrad. And he wasn't joking.

"Lange is an actress who sometimes sings. Why is that okay, but Lady Gaga being a singer who sometimes acts is not okay? The condescension is just so fucking unnecessary."

There was a study by some MIT researchers into Mars One and they figured, based on the information that Mars One provided, that even if the astronauts made it off the launch pad and survived the landing (a big if), due to miscalculations of how much food would be needed and lack of technology to recycle oxygen, the…

It was supposed to be Angelina Jolie in that role, but she dropped out not long before production and then they brought Jennifer Lawrence in. Strangely, the same thing happened with Gravity-Jolie was the first choice and Bullock came in after Jolie finally said no.

Everyone was friends with her parents. Seriously-that's all it was. No one knew who Cate Blanchett was or who the other nominees were. But everyone knew the Paltrows. The quality of her performance was irrelevant.

I don't know about Cannes specifically, but I tend to take the critics association awards (New York, LA, Boston) more seriously than the Oscars at this point.

No. It wasn't nominated for Best Screenplay at all.

Thank you.