Maybe it is just because I am a grouch who hates people, but it seems like it must be exhausting to spend so much of your time worrying that people like you. And not just certain people: everyone. And then having a melt down when it turns out that, in a country of some 320 million people, some of whom you’ve spent…

This was my point to my father (who is generally cool) when Trayvon Martin was killed. I said that when I was a teenager, wearing a hoodie as I usually did, if some nut in an unmarked car pulled up beside me and started bothering me while I was walking, I would have done exactly what Martin did. I would have been…

Thank you for sharing. It mostly says a lot about society. With abortion you get the misplaced moral outrage but there’s shame associated with anything female especially anything that is female that isn’t associated with male enjoyment, which anything medical would fall under. Periods, breast feeding, child birth,…

Baldwin’s reaction is like that republican lady who got all mad at Ana Navarro for saying pussy on the news when she was quoting Donald Trump - same misdirection, same reduction of the word to the single, most recent instance of it’s use while blatantly ignoring the referenced, and far more significant, use.

I read this yesterday and had such rage. I mean, he has no message other than hate and anger. So what’s he gonna do? Spend all four years traipsing around the country holding rallies to promote a non-existent “message.” Being president is not about holding rallies so you can continue to masturbate your own ego. That’s…

Exactly. There’s a NY Times article on how intricate and delicate relating to and communicating with all the moving parts in politics is, and how you have to be excellent at working with people who secretly hate you and who you hate and disagree with, but you make it work because you need each other to get things…

Probably because he absolutely knows it’s best for the country, including all those that voted for him. And he’s a decent person.

There is no simple answer, but as simple as I can make it here is this:

I posted this on a different thread, but am re-posting it here with a slightly different ending, given Kara’s excellent article:

I guess the great crime here is that Hillary failed to offer up impossible and worthless platitudes to these folks. I don’t look down on working class people, my father certainly falls into that category. However, you’re selling snake oil to these people if you try to convince them that manufacturing is coming back as…

Spoiler alert: it’s not going to get better for them. It’s been downhill for them since the Reagan administration, but they keep voting for the folks that ship their jobs overseas, bankrupt their pensions, pull their social safety nets, etc. Asking for sympathy while shooting yourself in the foot really only…

Don’t forget he also said that the minimum wage needs to go because its killing jobs.....SO say bye to miminum wage, marriage equality, women’s rights to choose, 5% unemployment, religious freedom unless your religion is christian and probably a 100+ trillion dollar national debt when we build a wall and have to pay…

“I voted for Clinton but regret it because someone who works for her used to be married to someone who texted a picture of his junk to my teenaged daughter and she maybe checked her email once on her husband’s computer. Hillary didn’t know anything about any of this until last week, and she has never mentioned my…

I get that people compare Madonna and Gaga because Gaga has released songs that seem to have been “inspired” to say the least by Madonna’s music. However, constantly comparing the two is unfair to them both. Do people compare male pop stars constantly? Because this is a trend when it comes to female celebrities.

A gif of Bee yelling “Partial Birth Abortions Aren’t a Thing” into a bullhorn felt like a good candidate for entry into the Jezebel pantheon.

Her while segment in the debate was beautiful. I watched it three or four times. She really captures that under current of anger a lot of women have about rape culture and sexism whether they recognize it or not.

Samantha Bee has been a bright spot in what has been a horror show of an election.

Shot. The man said shot. He wants her to die. And I will bet you $20 that if you ask him exactly why she deserves to be shot he won’t even know. That’s the infuriating part. They have no idea what crime to even accuse her of.

Kids are the worst!

My daughter has never been afraid of the dark, so this shouldn’t have surprised us, but it used to happen a lot.