Yeah, sure my Black/Arab/Berber ass who voted for Bernie in the primary is a “Clintonite Corporatist.” Never mind that I wrote that I originally supported Pete or Keith before Tom...but how dare I say Tom is a also a good person and will do a good job. Never mind the fact that I pounded the pavement for Bernie during…

If you want the DNC chair election to be a general election of the entire party membership, you should run in your precinct and start working on that. Representative democracy is still democracy, even if you don’t care to involve yourself with it.

The people you elect to Congress and the Presidency also don’t have stated policies about every decision that might come up during their tenure. Like all forms of representative democracy, you vote for the people you think will best represent your interests.

Nina Turner, a Sanders surrogate, told the Post’s Dave Weigel that “the future of the Democratic Party will walk away” if Ellison loses.

I literally had to read your comment several times to try to figure out that you WEREN’T just saying “god forbid we respect the DNC chair.” Because I mean...if you’ll literally leave the party because the guy you liked (which, let’s be honest, a lot of people were fired up about Bc a dude who doesn’t even call himself…

Them not writing about the administration in the same tones as Jezebel and HuffPo doesn’t mean they aren’t absolutely hounding them.

I dunno... The NYT has been ripping pretty hard into the Trump administration. What are they supposed to do, post Trump’s picture on the front page of every issue with the headline “This Fuckstick Is Fucking Hitler, Ya Dumb Shits”?

He’s digging a hole in a major city - where there are electric and data lines, water and sewer pipes, and any number of infrastructure issues. He’s presumably doing so by sending employees to do the work - which means that those employees are entitled to a bit of legal protection to make sure they’re not getting hurt…

And it’s not just OSHA that’s concerned about excavation, considerd one of the most hazardous construction operations.

Just to be clear on this:

Depends on what permitted means doesn’t it? Permitted can mean allowed, or in construction jargon, it means building permits have been issued. As of now, it is not permitted, as in has no permit, which by default means he’s not permitted, as in allowed, to build it even if the State would otherwise allow it’s…

It’s so hard to decide, though, isn’t it! Could we put Ted Cruz into a Hall of Punchable Fame, and focus more on the three more recent guys?

I like that. I also like:

Nah it’ll be totally fine. We’ll put them on a tropical island where they can’t escape. Not that it matters because what, the raptor is going to figure out how to open a door? I don’t think so. Maybe we could even generate some revenue for research to bring back other dinosaurs by letting people pay to come check out…

Ugh. It was bad enough with Gabbard. This is why I have never completely trusted “anti-war liberals”. Skepticism is one thing. But some people turn it into an overriding ideological position that turns off their common sense.

I go to a Shia mosque and most of my friends are from the old country and Iran. None of them excuse Assad in the way that many on the far-left do.

This is absolutely the right call. There is overwhelming evidence to support that Donald Trump is compromised, and he has shown little respect to proper protocol when it comes to issues related to national security.

I always felt that Pullman’s real point was to negate Lewis’s horrid idea about little girls and the concept of innocence. In Lewis’s “The Last Battle” Susan doesn’t get to “go to heaven” simply because she became interested in makeup and boys?! It’s utter bullshit, and in the last book in His Dark Materials, I…

FWIW, since there seem to be a lot of “the books were meh” and “the important thing is Pullman’s an atheist!” remarks... I love these books. A lot. I’d put them just above Narnia and just below Tolkien. Seriously. The film adaption really blew it (though they did manage to get Coulter as Nicole Kidman right). I hope…