I’m doing both, I can’t think it’s healthy.

The reason they got nothing is that the ACA is basically the Republican plan, similar to what Romney did in MA and based on ideas from the Heritage Foundation. Basically, Obama cut them off at the knees by making it impossible for them to go right. It’s a pity in a way, because it’s a law with a lot of problems (but…

I visit a lot of English-language news sites (UK, Canada, NZ) and then try to figure out what’s what. But for that bracing first look in the morning, I check the news services — reuter’s, AP — but honestly even they’ve dipped in quality over the last 6 months or so. The only thing I miss from giving up “the news” is…

I’m pretty sure none of those guys are big. If you know what I’m sayin here...

omg, I’m really sorry. I side-eye a lot of people these days, but generally hang with the like-minded. Good luck to you.

Thanks. :-) All these months I thought my color perceptions were awry, but no, he really does look like that, and goes out in public looking like that. That tells me all I need to know about that man’s judgement.

I’m doing that too, actually. I am a mess. I just can’t wrap my mind around the idea that such a large percentage of Americans are so willing to piss away democracy. Fuckers.

Assuming our nation survives this little hiccough, the Repubs need to put their house in order. Their followers are all angry awful people because they’ve been lied to for 40 plus years, a purely cynical ploy to allow Republicans to be voted into office, because they’d never get elected to anything if they told the…

Is anybody else drinking A LOT more than usual these days?

Normalizing divisive and hateful behavior is a creeping thing, thanks to the Republicans. I think it has to do with how much hatred there is amongst Republican voters. Like, you go to a D event, and there is criticism of the other side, sure, but there’s no hanging in effigy or racial slurs or what have you. They’re…

Actually I’d say the person who decided this was a racist event was the white man who assumed that a black boy was going to steal something and so assaulted him.

Also first in line to the throne is a divorced (& married again) man. I don’t think anybody would care at all.

She’s a shape-shifter.

Yes, he’s never let the truth of anything get in the way of his “logic” yet. :-)

He’s already blamed someone — Hillary, for not crafting better laws when she was a junior senator in a Republican controlled senate. So what if the timing is off, and that it makes no sense. Nothing can ever be his fault. He’s never taken responsibility for anything in his life, why start now?

You know how utterly tiring this ghastly election has been? And you know that assuming Clinton wins (& by damn she better win or we’re all screwed), the press and the repubs will be like honey badgers trying to tear her apart for the entirety of her presidency. And I really don’t get it. The repubs are so far out of…

The Republican party platform was changed in favor of the Russians and after the fact nobody copped to it. I think I read something to this effect by James Fallows at the Atlantic. I think? This is a potential tie-in with that, which was a bit of red flag for me at the time I read it.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that whenever Erick Erickson sees a woman he deems is dressed provocatively, he immediately thinks (& may well say, since he’s a Republican and an asshole (but I repeat myself)) “she’s asking for it.”

Yes, he was. I assumed it was talking about George Wallace given the general tenor of his remarks, but I was wrong. I had all but forgotten Henry Wallace, despite my very deep admiration of FDR.

Maybe Francona needs to manage the Cubs next so that they too can finally unjinx. He’s amassing quite a record of being able to manage miracles.