This is a really shameful, horrible comment. 

Seriously, though, what other choice does she have? Who is she going to turn to? Progressive columnists who publicly talk about how she should “get out now”? Young progressive voters who disdain her for her compromises while ignoring her victories? Or this fictional “blue wave” that somehow never seems to show up on…

But but but Pelosi is Established and therefore Bad! We should back more left-leaning candidates like Beto O’Rourke. Oh, shit, did he lose?

Maybe you could tell us why the hell the Democrats would make radical moves to the left? It’s been shown, twice over, that the radical left doesn’t support them the way the right supports their candidates. It has been shown that the only thing long-term political experience gets you on the left is contempt for any and…

The Democratic Party can’t put the guy with the bomb down. The American people could, and the American people chose not to. Why do we keep acting like there is a huge progressive presence in the US that is just yearning for someone to vote for? How many elections until we get that our fantasy of America is just that,…

Why would they fight for demographics that never show them enough support to get a big win? I’m asking because I keep being told that they democrats have a huge base of motivated radical-left people and those people never seem to show up and never seem to write anything in support of democrats.

So what are they going to do? Demand the kind of power that their base again and again shows they don’t have?

Thank you very much.  It’s kind of you to say that.  Accepted.

Men are socialized to consider wives and girlfriends as extensions of themselves, but they’re not.  I’m sorry but that quote is just wrong, factually and morally.  

What are you talking about? I don’t say “abortion” because it never crossed my mind to consider abortion and child murder in the same category, any more than self-harm and child murder are the same category. Nor is it “lashing out.” It’s a medical procedure.

Yeah, but that was a truly messed up quote. Children are not “extensions” of their mothers. They are people. Child murder is not self-harm and should not be considered in the same category.

I would never deny anyone that, if they had the opportunity.

Halloween Situational Best Chris:

Honestly, #metoo seems to be the best way of gathering evidence.  Put it online.  Wait to see who else comes forward.  At around four or five women, people start believing and the police start doing something.

For the last fucking time. (I know it’s not the last time.)

I was just coming to post this. Go to 3:16 and then watch to the end, people. The question is answered.

Yeah, this seems a little mean-spirited for no reason I can understand. Except I clicked on it, which in the end is the main reason to write something on the internet, so maybe I should reassess my clicking habits.

I gotta step in here. Game of Thrones is seven doorstop-size books long and *Little Women* is a slog to get through? It’s an easy day’s read. Take a forty-five minutes a night for a week and you’ll get through it.

Complicating all of this is the fact that obnoxious, grandiose, un-self-aware people are often the ones to speak out about huge problems. They’re used to screaming and yelling, they don’t care if they make other people miserable, and it doesn’t occur to them that they’ll suffer consequences for their behavior. 

This is the problem. There is Rose McGowan, who was sexually victimized, spoke out about it, and suffered professional consequence that were utterly unfair. And there is Rose McGowan, who is by all reports is obnoxious, erratic, and seemingly has no self-awareness. And you can’t separate those McGowans! They’re the…