Exactly. My wife and I, after 12 years, are still very much into each other, but we’re also at that point in our careers where we’re just busy as shit. We don’t have kids, but we work at the office, we work at home some nights, we maintain a household, we have pets. We also have a social life, volunteer, have hobbies,…

My cat of 17 years who I had raised from 6 weeks died a week before I got back from Shanghai in 2014, where I was taking students as I do every summer. My wife, who had known her for 10 years, had to put her to sleep by herself. It was fucking agony for her and for me. Kitty had been slowly declining from kidney…

Ha! That’s funny that Davis’ own county voted against Bevin. Thanks for the info. I truly appreciate it. Based on the numbers, I had a hard time believing that this guy represents some sort of consensus or referendum on Kentucky politics, and what you say confirms that. It also seemed that Conway expected to sleepwalk…

Yep. It’s enough to fuel conspiracy theories for sure. I know a lot of people have been saying it was somehow stolen. I suppose it’s possible, but another possible, simple solution is that people didn’t want to vote for Conway and left it blank as a protest. Whoops.

Yep. It was insane and glorious.

I’m overseas right now, so I’ve been watching some movies on satellite at night (indulging myself because I don’t have cable at home) and I’ve seen like six movies with the The Rock in the past week. He’s comically huge standing next to other actors. Also, he’s delightful in all of them, even the ones that suck.

There’s a gerrymander merit badge.

Works for me.

Exactly. I go to brunch every Sunday at an expensive Cuban place that normally costs an arm and a leg, but for about $30 (including tip) my wife and I get a couple of Bloody Marys each and a fantastic Benedict. Win win.

Racism, plain and simple. But, I’d add to your comment by saying that he’s a massive upgrade on the last four at least. I don’t really remember Carter, so I can’t go back any further...

He won with only about 500,000 votes cast for him. I told my students at UK that when their tution starts going up by double digits every year, they can reflect on the fact that they didn’t vote.

Zing!

You made my brain ball hurt.

Nothing good has ever come from a trip to Cook Out.

Well, in my view, we can’t give her credit for good policies during Clinton’s term and not blame her for the bad. If she was an “equal partner” in Clinton’s administration, as many people claim, then she shares the blame for enacting policies that moved the Democrats further to the right. If she was out of the loop…

My crazy, uber - conservative Catholic parents actually are cool with Bernie, but they hate the Clintons. Also, surprisingly, they despise every Republican running right now. “With Bernie, at least you know what he stands for,” my mother said the other night. Flying Spaghetti Monster bless her!

I’m glad ACA has helped you and your family! And agree with you on all points. It was a mistake for Obama and for us to imagine anyone was going to play ball with this guy. The goal was making him a one term President, nothing more.

I’m not one to malign Obama. I supported him in 2008 and I think he did more in his first two years when he had a friendly Congress than most two-term Presidents accomplish in eight. He’s done great things since then. And a lot of these omnibus bills (the stimulus, ACA, etc.) really changed the direction of funding…

Dude, capital gains tax was in the 90% range until Carter (a Dem) lowered it.

While neglecting the role the Clinton’s played in continuing to tack right in the 1990's...