You could also debate whether Franken’s resignation helped the Democrats win the Doug Jones seat over Roy Moore. And it certainly helped them have a cleaner interrogation of Kavanaugh. (Franken was on the Judiciary Committee and would have otherwise been in that room.) Franken also—despite his popularity with a…

Franken received all the due process he was entitled to, and if he didn’t, that is his own fault and no one else’s.

Amen

“Gay enough” is a straw man argument to distract from the very cogent points the piece made, eviscerating the weaponizing of identity to sell more bad neoliberalism and systemic racism.

The whole U.S. insurance model is to deny coverage, and only cover either common, well-documented type problems, or to only offer to cover something after repeated appeals.

Please, explain to the class how that is exactly

I’d vote for Voldemort over McConnell.

Hell, even a Republican exactly as conservative as McConnell would likely be somewhat less bad because they wouldn’t have seniority and likely would be less competent at political strategy. 

True that. The biggest problem with McConnell isn’t that he’s in Congress, it’s that he’s majority leader and holds a ton of power. McGrath, even if she was worse than McConnell, will not have that much power over which bills make it to the floor. I’ll take an awful person with limited power over an awful person with…

Seriously, even another conservative Republican would be better than Mitch McConnell. NIXON in his prime would be better than Mitch. She can say whatever she wants just so she gets a shot at taking that treasonous bastard down.

That’s Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her. (And no tricks, she was just born that way)

When I moved to Seattle, the neighborhood I was in had signs everywhere that said “Keep Ballard, Ballard” meaning down destroy the housing character of the community by building up high density housing. The city council is all Democrats and a Socialist. You can maintain the character of neighborhoods or you can have…

If a 737 is “dinky” you probably do not want to get on many of the planes Delta, United, American, and many others fly.

Pence because he’s “normal.”

Senate Republicans proved they have no shame over the Merrick Garland affair. It’s impossible to embarrass them into doing the right thing. There’s not a single ethical person among them.

I’m not sure your framing of Warren’s work - particularly for Traveler’s - is accurate or entirely fair. The position she took on behalf of Traveler’s could probably be criticized, but not as her “helping them dodge liability for victims of asbestos.” As I understand that case, Traveler’s, as insurer for a bankrupt…

Right. While I agree that impeachment is the Constitutional remedy for the numerous, demonstrable crimes committed by this president - and putting aside the arguments against elevating Mike Pence to the presidency - there’s still the very real concern that not only will impeachment proceedings almost certainly fail to…

This article describes how I expected Christian to be as a mentor before the show started, but not as much as how he’s actually been. I haven’t really seen him bring much of his personal experience to the show, and his advice is rather generic. In fact, I thought the reason they’ve had Marni as a co-mentor in several…

Right?  Biden is our punishment for not showing up and voting.  I am hoping that democratic primary voters come to their senses and give the other candidates a chance.

To your second point: any time I bring that up and ask them to conflate it with other costs which the small business owner cannot control (rent, costs of materials/goods, cost of shipping/transit, etc.) I typically get an earful about how I don’t “respect job creators” and how I want all minimum wage employees to be…