Around the turn of the century, there was a version of this in Detroit. They toured local bars. My favorite character was Little Ho Peep.

Live Renditions of 1970s Anime Theme Songs for $500 please Alex.

That's as good as any theory I've heard.

"a quirky suburban teenager coming to age in a house full of men"

That's the sort of hubris that gets everyone killed, and we keep giving these people more and more control.

NO ONE EXPECTS THE— oh, I'm sorry. This appears to be the wrong house.

You can put whatever you want on your John Thomas!

Not what I said. You need to work on that. But last month, for example, I defended an assault victim on grand theft auto charges. She was trying to escape and it was the only car in the household. Don't you think she deserved a presumption of innocence? I do. But it applies to everybody, that's the only way it…

At this point you seem consumed by your need to hurt me. But you can't. Collateral sanctions are not made up, there are volumes written on them, and your hostility can't change that. It also can't change the fact that we have the same opinion about these claims. You don't care about that though. You also don't…

What do you mean by benefit of the doubt? Suspension of rights? Extralegal sanctions? I wish people would stop talking about that, but I would never presume to control what they think or say. I make my own points and defend them. I don't go after people who make different points.

I already said that I believe the claims in this article. I've also talked about how irrelevant my opinion is, given how much I know about those claims. You seem to want your opinion— not about the system but about specific claims— to be accepted as fact. First of all, our opinions about the claims are the same. …

You and the MRA folks are talking about men. I talk about the justice system when it comes up in these threads. And it always does, doesn't it? I respect your position on that, even though mine is different.

Student loan forgiveness sells… but it wasn't our candidate who proposed that, it was Trump. The public service forgiveness system that's already in place? A Bush program, not ours. But slashing welfare? That was Clinton.

Agreed. Our party should stop moving their direction. Let them look like assholes killing Obamacare, which was their idea in the first place, and then start fighting for actual socialized medicine. We can't let them make us ashamed of that concept. The shame is theirs for opposing it.

There's no equivalency. We've been getting our asses kicked. 25 years ago we capitulated on economics, allowing them to move the entire spectrum their direction. And now that their economic plan has failed, with support from both parties, they're stealing our positions and the constituencies that go with them.

I remain respectful of you and interested in your opinions, even when we disagree. Perhaps you might consider giving that a go. No pressure.

I'm from Cleveland. Oh yes it does.

"JERBS" were until recently a liberal priority. But because our new strategy is making fun of poor people, we can't even get the labor unions to support us. Without the unions we have no base, and no financial backing other than Wall Street.

So… it's got nothing to do with issues or economics? And it's not that she talked about Trump too much, the problem was the specific manner in which she focused attention on him. He insults other countries, we counter by insulting our own voters. If they don't like it, we double down on the smug until they accept…

This is elegant. I'm going to roll with this from now on.