On the Campaign Trail in ‘72 is such a great read, I think his best work, and with how he savaged Nixon I would absolutely love to hear his take on Trump. Considering the amazing reporting he did from the belly of the “decadent and depraved” beast (Kentucky Derby, another great one) I would love to hear his take on…

I came hear to say something about that too. “Passed away” seems very, well, passive, something that happens to someone. Thompson went out on his own terms, and would one expect any less from Hunter Freakin Thompson? Some of us are not meant to grow old.

I also think, at least based on my experience, that a lot of us who may have always considered ourselves feminists learn when we have a daughter how early this stuff starts and how many ways it rears its ugly head that we didn’t know about. Before my daughter I knew some boys act entitled when it comes to girls, but I…

Is it possible to NOT love Samantha Bee? She is killing it this election season!

Good for you, go ahead and give yourself credit, because even if it didn’t click with most of them, if you got through to a couple or a few, that’s huge. A few people here and there, inspired to do public service, or at least be more engaged, can still make such a difference.

I think at that point the selling has to be done by her cabinet, and of course the never-electrifying-but-always-affable Tim Kaine.

My grandmother is 95, has been an active Democrat for close to two-thirds of a century (she has the most amazing photo collection, Bobby friggin Kennedy is in there!) and it can be so hard for this proud woman who now can barely walk and is exhausted very easily. But MSNBC is blaring from her tv and she is so charged…

There won’t be ovens, but you can see he is emboldening white supremacist hate groups. This won’t lead to camps but it will lead to violence, and if you don’t know that then you have never experienced hate violence or paid attention to those who have.

He doesn’t want to do the day to day work so Pence, who is awful, will make the bulk of the decisions along with Republicans in Congress. He’s going to just sign whatever awfulness they put in front of him, which means now we’ll have a President who signs all of their anti-voter legislation, anti-immigrant and…

So out of spite you want to watch a man assume power who promises to deny rights to virtually every minority group? You sure show us, fucking Muslims, women, African Americans, the LGBT community, Hispanics and many others because you didn’t get exactly who you want. By the way, your privilege is showing.

Except the “or else” is the reality of what would happen if Trump were president. It’s not a threat, it’s a reality check.

Because a lot of them were never as diehard pro-Bernie as they said, they projected onto him something he really isn’t. You can’t possibly have policy convictions and go from Sanders to Trump.

So you prefer the candidate who wants to ban people from the country based on ethnicity and religion? You prefer the candidate who will completely support the NRA and who thinks wages are too high? This has nothing to do with a campaign of fear, he is running a campaign that makes many of us wonder if this is what it…

They’re not sexist, it’s not about having a woman in the White House, it’s not! They would all totally vote for Elizabeth Warren, she’s the best she...wait she endorsed Hillary Clinton? They’d all totally vote Jill Stein, so they can’t be sexist, no matter what they called Warren on her Facebook page after the…

That’s almost exactly what I think Trump is going to do during his debate with Clinton.

MSNBC is still saying she’s about to announce. It’s hard because you know she didn’t want to say it while information about Germany is still coming in, but she also wants to knock the Republican convention from the top of this weekend’s domestic political onversation.

I find it’s a cycle. The first couple of days are debauched fun, then a couple of days of fun with occasional moments of missing our daughter mixed in, then I really miss her for a day or two, then we have a great weekend and I’m happy she’s not here, then days of missing her. Repeat.

I know what you mean, at that moment a nice gesture can just seem like another thing to take care of. I’m looking at my table right now and seeing some kind and generous examples.

Yeah it can be a hard tight rope to walk because people are so different. Some people would have found it perfectly normal, I’m sure, others like myself find it more of a festive gift. Some people want to be cared for and some left alone. It’s hard, but I think even when someone misses the mark the gesture is still…