It is the easiest way to appeal to their Christian base. It cost them nothing and it’s an issue conservatives are really stuck on. If you ask my conservative relatives what their number one issue is, they will say abortion, also because it cost them nothing and allows them to bask in their own self-righteousness. In…

They were made for each other.

As Ta-Nehasi Coates was reminding people on twitter: 3/5s of a person was already a compromise. Missouri was a compromise. Lincoln’s election platform was a compromise. The road to the civil war was paved in compromises that never managed to be enough for the slaveholders of the south.

My favorite part of the profile is its noting that she arrived at the NYT “rocking peach-colored socks featuring raccoons eating doughnuts.”

When I was younger and more fiery, I would’ve happily greeted each new story as a victory, certain we were fighting a war we could win. But now I’m older, and of course #metoo applies to me a few times over, and each new story hits me like a body blow. I can absorb them for awhile, but boy, they’re wearing me down.…

“I do understand that the temperature in the world right now is delicate.”

Marxism =/= Stalinism

She refused one million dollars...

They are the kind of famous people that make me glad I wasn’t famous in my early/mid 20s. People who manage to be famous without humiliating themselves during the obnoxious “my brain finally finished developing and now I know everything” phase truly are blessed.

Goddamn it you fucking humans.

Concerned Princess Leia and Repulsed Batgirl are all of us.

God his presidency feel so like Camelot at this point.

Remember when someone with dignity, grace, style, and genuine affection for the next generation occupied the office?

Amen, pal. I was talking to an old friend in Newport Beach yesterday, and was very encouraged by, from his telling, the disillusionment settling in there. My friend has always felt like rather a square peg, politically there, but he sees big changes coming. It could happen. 30 years ago OC was all Republican, now I…

C’mon, lay off - this is just unfair. Who among us doesn’t see an innocent child and think “is there any reason I shouldn’t insult their moms and dads, and then introduce them to body shaming in the same breath? Nope, not that I can think of.”

This is the ad Tom Steyer is running (very regularly in high-dollar California markets). Nothing about him could be remotely described as “wacky and totally unhinged” (except by those who are projecting):

You have a veryyyyyy odd view of church. I go to church. I am a super liberal female under 35 and have been going since I was 19. By myself. Not being forced by family or friends. I have gotten a lot of strength from my church community. Don’t paint such a broad stroke. It isn’t cute when it’s coming from liberals or…

Seriously, if your going to a church then you are probably already either 1) At the lower end of the IQ spectrum in the U.S. or 2) Old and about to die.