I was looking at an old Tom and Lorenzo post earlier which described Armie Hammer as ‘yogurt parfait’. Granted this was because he was wearing a pastel suit, but I think it’s the perfect characterisation of him in general.

Republicans only hold about 52% of registered voters and until 2010 Democrats had controlled both houses of the state legislature since the late 1800s. This is a winnable seat. I’m won’t be surprised to see Roy Moore win, but in a low turnout election with a bad Republican on the ballot, it’s winnable for Doug Jones,…

Clinton carried Prince William County by 20 points. Danica Roem won an election in an increasingly progressive part of the country filled with college-educated professionals. She did unseat a Republican incumbent, which is not nothing, but the demographics of the region are such that increased visibility and…

Said somebody who doesn’t understand the demographics of the state of Alabama. Even if I could do those things, and it’s absurdly presumptuous to suggest anybody could obviously do any of them, they wouldn’t make a bit of difference. The reason he’s going to win is not that Democrats didn’t try hard enough. He’s going…

You have obviously not ever been to Alabama, much less lived here. I live in Birmingham. Doug Jones has plenty of support. There are a lot of moderate Republicans crossing over to vote Democrat, many of them for the first time in their lives. HOWEVER, Alabama has spent the last 50 or so years vilifying Democrats…

It’s about reversing the trend of a generation of the Southern Strategy...

This is wrong thinking too. Doug Jones is a great candidate, a crusading prosecutor who is tough on crime. If he loses it won’t be because he’s not a worthy candidate or because he’s not socialist enough. It will be because Alabama Republicans are him as so liberal that they’d rather elect an known pedophile. The…

Viable candidate you say....

I mean, come on. The idea that Doug Jones would be trouncing Roy Moore if he was a “viable candidate” is laughable. Doug Jones is a dedicated public servant who served as a civil rights lawyer and who has an extremely impressive record. But you’re being willfully blind if you don’t acknowledge that a large portion of…

This is a dangerous line of thinking that we should all stay away from. The 2016 election and this joke of a race in Alabama is not indicative of how “terrible” people are, it’s indicative of how terrible the Democratic candidate is.

The idea that it’s never the voters’ fault or their responsibility to overcome their petty biases is at once patronizing and self-aggrandizing horseshit

Yep. Alabama will absolutely elect Roy Moore; a disgraced judge kicked off the bench twice for violating the Constitution, who called for a ban on gay people, asserted that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress, who was banned from a local mall for stalking and trying to date teenage girls, who called…

I had strep throat with a high fever as a teen. I swear to this day that Bette Midler was flying a plane around my room.

I also contracted it, in middle school in the 90s. I have always wondered if it messed up my heart.

Let’s tone down the glee just a tad.

I have a good friend with whom I’m really struggling. She is a self-described feminist, but keeps wanting to bring up the recent harassment news. Her theory is that only attractive women get harassed and it’s part of the price you pay for having more “value” on the dating market. (I should add that this friend…

I had this as a kid in the 80's. My dad found me frantically cramming all of my stuffed animals in a closet while chanting they were “real” because I was terrified my parents were going to burn all my stuff in bonfire in the backyard à la The Velveteen Rabbit.

I had the exact same response as this person to seeing her name everywhere this morning. Guhhhhhh.

Pocahontas wasn’t Navajo. She wasn’t Cherokee, either. Warren wasn’t present. It would have been the easiest thing in the world not to mention either woman, but apparently that’s beyond Trump.

It’s going to be like postwar Germany, where basically zero people supported the Nazis during their rise to power.