There *are* actually some interesting stories in figure skating this year—not that anyone will see this because Jezebel has never let me out of the greys. But, anyway—in ice-dancing after a five-year medal drought, the Shibutanis got the silver after winning the U.S. championships the first time. They won the bronze…

Yes, but Papadakis and Cizeron really are beautiful to watch. Cizeron may be the best male ice dancer—ever—. She’s good, but he’s beyond that. Much as I love the Shibutanis and their free dance, I can’t begrudge Papadakis and Cizeron their win. They’re like nobody else.

Not whites—white *men*. After all, there is no POC running on the Democratic side, but there is a white woman.

Yep, what others said, welcome to the fold (okay, I’m in the grey here, so it doesn’t matter). Think of this as a beginning not an end. Vote in the midterms, vote in the down-ticket races and get some lefties in Congress and in the statehouses. One of them will have the magic to go to the Oval Office.

I wonder if they did it then—lady voters who couldn’t stomach doing a cross-vote for Kasich might have gone for Clinton after all, giving her that surprisingly big bump.

Yeah, yeah—I know, you won’t *vote* otherwise. Can’t tell you how many Bernie supporters have stated online that they won’t vote unless Bernie’s the nominee—so we Clinton supporters should vote for Bernie if we know what’s good for us.

Now that that’s not happening, we’re supposed to be nice to you so you’ll flutter…

No, there are ordinary people who behave that way—a couple of my real-life acquaintances became BernieBros. Really kind of awful. Did not help my view of Sanders. I favored Hillary in a desultory way (I’m in California, primary season is basically over by the time we vote.) and shared a mildly pro-Hillary article on…

After reading about Bernie’s campaign having zero women among its top ten paid employees, I don’t see anything shiny and new about how Bernie does things. Equity begins at home—Hillary pays and hires more equally. I think she’s a lot more likely to walk the walk re: POC and women because she’s one of the “othered” as…

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.