It would have been—because that’s what’s really missing—what about all those captured Aes Sedai and this functional empire predicated on slavery and cut-throat politics? I’m not a fan-fiction type, but this is one universe where I just want to fill things in.

I knew this one would be up there—so much so that I wondered why Charlie didn’t use it for her illustration. The point where I decided that I just kind of *hated* Elayne was the point where I knew the whole series was sort of over the cliff—that no matter how much better it got, my experience of reading it would be…

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…

Yes, it’s why I cut them a bit of slack, though then you can wander into the issue of the lack of anglo-Indian actors—odd given that there are a number of black British actors and that the Anglo-Indian population is substantially larger and more established than the African/Carribean-British population.

I think about…

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 was actually kind of wondering, because of how problematic the whole stereotype exotic-Indian thing is in Pan why there was even a remake of the story without a better revamp? Peter and the Starcatchers handles it a bit better, but Peter Pan is just weird on a lot of levels.

Yeah, I was kind of appalled by that one until I read that an Indian actor had been cast and dropped out. Ejiofor was a last-minute sub, so I cut the movie makers a little slack—though it begs the question as to why they couldn’t find another Indian actor. I mean it’s not like there’s a shortage of Indian actors in…

Which seems to be Hollywood’s latest angle—all brown people can be subbed in for one another because the 84 percent of the world’s population that isn’t “white” is all alike.

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.