No. I’m saying he’s a bad human with bad values who had agency and used that agency to choose to do horrible things. “Monster” dehumanizes. Monstrous would be fine with me. It is semantic I suppose, but I think language matters.

Yes. In fact I almost made that point too, but was on my phone and didn’t have patience to type all the little letters with my thumb.

It is important to understand that people who do horrible things aren’t monsters. They are humans who made horrible choices. I think calling them Monsters takes away their agency and their responsibility for making those choices.

That headline left me completely unclear whether “shit” was meant to be read literally. Which is not a criticism.

You misread what I wrote. I said we need to hear from mothers who regret *not* having access to abortion. Meaning women who had to have babies they weren’t equipped/ready to raise.

The important stories that we will never hear for obvious reasons are the ones from women who feel their lives were irrevocably ruined by not having access to abortion.

I remember kids I babysat for wanting to hang out in their parents’ room so we all went together. But maybe we were less formal.

Can someone explain the significance of this:

The mommy-bloggers are too. (Except the Mormon ones).

Really? After that KKK business?

Barack Obama lost the white vote in 2012 but obviously still won by carrying people of color. I have to imagine that people of color will come out in droves in support of Clinton to avoid the Trump apocalypse. (And will keep my fingers crossed that she will earn their support by following through on her commitments to…

Every time I see your name I am a little happier than the moment before.

I saw that one. It is spectacular.

But were they lobbed at her in real time while she was on camera? That’s what totally disturbs me. Especially for a woman, it can be really hard to react “appropriately” because women already are perceived to have a humor deficit.

I’m petrified she’s going to seem like a humorless old lady. I can’t possibly imagine what debate prep would be like.

I like Slate’s theory.

I’m worried that will be the case with either nominee.

That’s what I was going to say. It is a great sentiment, but it is one thing to say it on TheGrio.com or in Harlem. It would be fantastic if she put it in her nomination address in Philadelphia.

You beat me to it! I was going to forgo the multimedia option and go with:

Just today I was saying that I just wish I could vote for Obama again. And then on FB this evening I saw this Huffington Post article about the little girl weeping that Obama’s term is almost over and Obama wrote her note and I just became a puddle of tears myself.