WASPs aren’t all privileged—protestant work ethic and all—old family, well-mannered, usually well-educated (though not always). The money, though, can be long gone.

Nah, as a WASP I can say there really is a heritage factor—weird stuff that you take for granted as the way things are done because you have some ancestors who came over on an early boat. It’s actually kind of strange to see people like Ralph Lauren and Martha Stewart mythologize it—they make us look way prettier and…

No, he really doesn’t. If you want the nitty-gritty, check out fivethirtyeight—Nate Silver and co. break down the numbers. Basically, Sanders needs to win a higher and higher percentage of the votes in the remaining states—way higher than any polling has shown. He’s got to win states like New York (where Hillary was a…

Bernie Sanders is 74 and has done almost nothing in Congress. Furthermore, he’s shown no interest in getting enough Democrats elected to Congress to make any of the changes he’s promised happen.

Some of the changes he’s promised (specifically dropping incarceration rates dramatically) aren’t even possible (states…

Yep. I was a kid, but I remember all the way back to McGovern—and, boy, the Sanders sounds a lot like the McGovern crowd. Bill Clinton’s politics were to the right of mine, but it was clear to a lot of us after 12 years of Reagan/Bush I that we couldn’t afford to be purists.

I’ve talked to some Sanders fans—and they…

I’m white, so I’m not going to opine on the annoyance factor, but I’m just going to guess that her kid is biracial—in which case, I don’t think appropriation is an issue. I mean Barack Obama’s mother was white, but surely a guy with a Kenyan father has a legitimate cultural right to a Kenyan first name?

Since older women are more likely than younger women to be married, it seems to me the Sanders/Clinton single/married preference gap is probably explained by age, unless you’ve got a breakdown that shows otherwise. I’m sure there are single women over 40 who support Sanders, like Susan Sarandon, but I’ve not met one.…

I see the black jumpsuit as a club wear, so deliberately a little slutty and over-the-top. Compared to other clubwear, I kind of like it—you could dance in it and the fabric would move well. You could swap in and out a number of different accessories and make-up styles with it.

No, I didn’t call you anything, I did say you’d drunk the Kool-Aid—and you have.

I get it, you’re unwilling to compromise. So were the people who voted for Ralph Nader in Florida and helped get Bush elected. So were the people who insisted on McGovern and made sure war-monger and crook Richard Nixon got re-elected.

Ther…

Ferraro was a VP candidate, not a presidential candidate. Though she did face some vicious attacks from the GOP.

I haven’t called you any names, but your inability to actually address the points I brought up has been noted.

No. HRC supports choice. Reagan did not. HRC is for funding educattion; Reagan did his best to demolish public education throughout his career. Reagan was in favor of deregulating industry in a way that does not jibe with HRC’s voting record.

Hillary’s actual record in the Senate was similar to Ted Kennedy’s.

Brava! That pretty much nails it and why it’s so hard for young women to get the point—they’re too young for the glass ceiling, too desirable to be ignored.

Seven presidential elections and you’re still that naive? You’re still that will ing to throw the entire government to the party that brought us Dubya, financial collapse and an endless war?

Crap, I think Sanders would be a disaster, but if he’s the nominee he’ll get my vote just for the sake of the Supreme Court.

That’s using a slippery-slope fallacy—where did I say my only consideration when voting was gender? Oh, that’s right, I didn’t.

Mostly because their voting records aren’t that different. Bernie is to the left of Hillary—except on gun control and he’s pretty appalling there—but Hillary’s record is nearly identical to Ted Kennedy’s and Ron Wyden’s.

But then, Bernie’s way to the left of the general population—he’ll be creamed if he makes it to the…

Hillary and Bernie voted the same way 93 percent of the time. Bernie sucks as far as gun control and working with others, so not the fan of Bernie that others are.

Depends on how long you think your life will be. I’ve been waiting a long time for a female president. I’ve been waiting a long time for pay equity.

Or let me put it this way—women’s suffrage was bumped from the 14th Amendment because abolitionists were afraid it wouldn’t pass. It then took another 60 years before the…

Looks like no, on the other hand, if he left half to Iman, she’ll presumably leave her estate to her daughters.

Balinese religious practices are actually a mix of Hinduism and Buddhism—a little like how the Japanese combine Shintoism and Buddhism. In both places, the Buddhism tends to kick in when dealing with death.