i voted for gore in 2000 but told everyone i voted for nader so as not to ostracize myself from the communities of portlandia.

Of all the Clinton conspiracy theories, I’ve never understood how this one is even supposed to reflect poorly on her. Huma Abedin is very attractive and much younger than Clinton. I’d be pretty damn impressed.

I love Derren Brown! James Randi does similar exposes (and there’s a pretty interesting documentary about him on Netflix).

I saw Derren Brown live and he does the *most* amazing cold reads. He’ll know about people’s childhood dogs were called (and what breed they were), what someone’s grandmother left to them in her will, a funny story about someone’s late uncle’s beloved canary yellow Ford Capri...

Yeah, it’s truly awful. The worst part about it is how much it distracts from the very real problem of rape on campus, and gives fuel to the narrative that accusers are commonly lying about being raped.

I’m a journalist, and I’m okay with this. Making a deliberate decision not to fact-check a piece like this easily fits the legal definition of “reckless disregard for the truth.”

I have proof that the dead can’t communicate with the living. I went to see Pope Francis (see him waving to a crowd, not during Mass) wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and sneakers. My Mom was an old school Catholic and that would have made her crazy. If communication between the dead and living was possible, she’d have…

The whole concept of “mediums” just grosses me out. I believe that there are some people out there who have a more developed sense of intuition than others, but this whole business about “the spirits” actually communicating through them is utter nonsense. If there’s a hell (which I don’t think there is), there is a…

My sister was senior city director for a mayor who was like Trump - a rich business man buffoon. She would be asked to craft these major position papers knowing that he would never read them. She said to me (more than once) “if it doesn’t fit on the front of a tee shirt, he ain’t going to read it”

SERIOUSLY.

Of course she isn’t an idiot. She’s trying to help her husband win an election. And just as we do in personal relationships all the time, voters pay attention to the dialogue that they want to hear, from the candidates they want to hear it from. Trump supporters will forget the things he says that they don’t like and…

Every “victim” with a bullshit story annoys the heck out of me too. It discredits actual crime and actual victims.

Equal chance? I think that’s patently unreasonable. I wouldn’t put anything past Trump, especially when it comes to treating women poorly, but it’s like 1000:1 that this story has any merit. Known con artists, known shakedown-artists are engaging in what sure seems like a shakedown.

If you agree to have Gloria Allred or her daughter represent you, you kiss off any kernel of legitimacy when you agree to her soap opera level press conferences. For all her fame, she has a piss poor track record of winning for her clients.

This is all relatively normal for me because I deal with high anxiety quite often and generally there’s no reason for it. As far as the election goes though I’m just going to lose a little bit of my shit, just for a minute. Then I’m going to take a sedative, take a nap, and wake up strong and ready to go.

Huh? He can’t be Speaker of the House; he’s a senator.

Someone, I forget who, noted that this “voting my conscience” bullshit is the exact opposite of conscientious behavior. Conscience is what makes you serve the greater good by doing things that may or may not actually be personally gratifying to you.

No, because as a Sanders supporter, you believe there’s a secret conspiracy headed by the DNC that coerced, blackmailed or possibly even tortured Bernie into endorsing a candidate he once did everything he could to save America from. Bernie’s like a prisoner of war - his words are manipulated by the people with the li…

Damn it, that attitude is fucking dangerous. Hillary is not safe. She has not been elected. The polls are uncomfortably close, and encouraging people to pull this morally pure shit plays right into Donald’s teeny hands.

Same. I cuddled with my dog until noon reading a book last Saturday. I come home from work and relax and if I don’t want to do the dishes or laundry then I just....don’t. Honestly, that’s the biggest thing holding me back from having kids. I LOVE my free time and even though I live with my boyfriend we regularly…