Yea, I smell a change in the air. This is pure speculation, but I also am getting a sense that “electability” voters are starting to realize that Biden is the real “Clinton 2.0" with a lot of the same vulnerabilities. And “electability” is the #1 consideration for something like 90% of black voters  over 40.

Exactly this. Why would she convince me, a white woman, when my interests have already been addressed broadly since I (mostly) benefit from the status quo? Don’t call me or invite me for a beer Liz, speak to those who truly need the representation and voice in our government at the highest level.

And I’m a white woman. She doesn’t need to work on outreach to me. I’m voting for whoever wins the nom. She does, however, need to energize young voters. And if she can’t engage with black women she’s toast. I don’t mind being ignored. Just, please, for the love of all that is decent and just, boot the carny handed…

This will change. Clinton was Queen of South Carolina, too, in 2008. When they move, they move big, and they will move soon enough.

BECAUSE she was a cop, she should be held to the highest standard, and the greatest consequences. She was entrusted by the public to protect all of us, and her recklessness, carelessness, negligence, and downright apathy of the power entrusted to her, took Mr. Jean’s life while he was chilling at home eating ice…

No I definitely think I’m better than a guy who lost money on numerous goddamn CASINOS.

I really hope at some point progressives realize that portraying Franken as a victim of the #metoo movement is NOT the hill they want to die on.

You have the right to make whatever jokes you want, but you don’t have the right to complain that the “free market” isn’t buying them.

I have been performing comedy for 4 years. You are absolutely correct. In fact, when people I’m on stage with try to blame the audience someone is always quick to say “the audience is never the problem.” Obviously, nothing is absolute, but, seriously, read a room and adjust.

You can boil that down to “freedom of speech does not equal freedom from consequences.”  Also not a new concept.

I’m all for edgy comic pushing boundaries. They can be very funny if they are good writers and pick the right material. Carlin was always an expert at that. This was just not funny though, its such low brow, frat boy, drunk asshole humour. It only appeals to other white bigots, even if the guy stayed on the cast, who…

I’m currently reading Live from New York, the oral history of SNL, and can safely say they don’t need more Shane Gillises. That “voice” has had more than its share of representation on the show over the years.

Unfortunately, it seems no one bothered to vet Gillis, or even give him a cursory Google

The world has gone to hell, so I can turn the other cheek to a lot of things these days.

Sean fucking Spicer sullying the good name of the Spice Girls is not one of those things.  

I liked it, too, but hated everything involving Boris. If they’d cut out that character and all he touched, it would have been a much more enjoyable book.

You nailed it. I loved the book (love the cerebral weirdness of Donna Tart in general), but I know I will hate the movie and am wary of books like this one being adapted to the screen in general. But you are so right on the Olive Kitteridge treatment.

I thought it was well written, even if it meandered. Tartt has a way of writing that lets the reader know exactly how a specific situation feels, tastes, smells, etc. I appreciate her talents but she needed an editor.

I actually really enjoyed the book and the meandering adventure it went on. However, I knew reading it that it would be a TERRIBLE movie. It needs the Olive Kitteridge treatment to be any good; definitely a limited series on Netflix or HBO.

The idea of the BBC finding something “too emotionally muted” made me giggle. 

I can’t believe we even have to define feminism, and yet here we are.