Thank you! Your work makes email bearable. I’m sorry that spammers get tilted at you; they are ridiculous.

If little girls are looking up to the spouse of the president as their ultimate role model then we are teaching them wrong. Let’s find them some role models whose status doesn’t depend on their marital status.

Cheat, and blame her. Obvs.

*sob* I miss that show.

“Now politicians and advocates can just make up their own intelligence and ignore the consensus of experts. I’m scared.”

It is standard procedure for the outgoing administration to request the resignation of each of its politically appointed ambassadors, which the Obama administration did back in November. It is also traditional for the incoming administration to grant extensions to ambassadors who request it, since it is unlikely that…

Hate and fear are easier to profit from.

The nature of intelligence work is that you get information of varying quality and conflicting bits, which various analysts, boffins and managers need to sort through and determine the veracity and seriousness. The WMD/yellowcake info was not highly rated by the intelligence agencies, but it provided the narrative…

I assumed they were boner pills too, but they are not. They are used for sores and boils, and to increase lactation and menstruation. The meat is a delicacy, a son well.

Good. It primarily benefits well off people. 70% of taxpayers can’t benefit from it because they don’t itemize, and wealthier people can take a larger percentage deduction on the same size donation because their tax rate is higher, so the middle income person gets 200 on a $1000 donation but an upper income person…

On the plus side, bar trivia will be so much easier in the future. “In what year did <<insert bad thing >> happen?”

Yes, it is flawed but endearing. Would watch again.

The thoughtful approach would be to remember this, but people seem to believe that they gave the Democrats 8 years and aren’t satisfied, so let’s go the other way. This is a deeply flawed analysis, but for the headlines only people it seems to be as far as they got.

Yep, she saw stuff. Enough to convince her catholic self that there must be a better way.

There are people who don’t qualify for subsidies whose premiums are going up and up and up. This pain is real. It exists. They have the right to be angry and frustrated that they are in a death spiral.

Gen X, the canary in the coal mine generation. Smart thinking on positioning the ruination; GenX is too small, and millennials are still in their disaffected years. Wait any longer and enough millennials will have their feet under them that they’ll shut this whole thing down.

My mom was an OR nurse in the 60s. Rich women either went abroad (I think it was legal in Canada) or they got a doctor to diagnose them with depression, because there was an exception written in the laws regarding the mental health of the mother. Note that depression can make you ineligible for jobs requiring security…

If people are asked their opinion about Obamacare it’s majority negative. If they are asked about the ACA, it is majority positive. They are the same law. Note this survey was taken before the news about increased premiums went out, so ACA opinions are probably lower now.

60% of abortions are to women in their 20s. 59% already have at least 1 child. One of the persistent incorrect stereotypes is that it’s just slutty teenagers with no impulse control.

In states where Obamacare was contentious the branding and publicity were tied to the state level implementation. Kentucky is one example; many Kentuckians don’t realize they are part of Obamacare.