Yeah, I agree with this. I’m a screaming lefty myself, but I’m a Gen-Xer so I’ve been around long enough to see how politics actually works in the USA. When push comes to shove, I’m astounded at the change that’s come about in my lifetime. Homosexuality was still recognized as a mental disorder when I was a baby.…

“The only one who got spared that was Martha Jones”

You couldn’t have been that old if you’re citing DADT as a huge failure. I remember all that, too, and I remember Clinton campaigning on allowing gays to serve in the military and I well remember him running headfirst into the massive, massive objection to that from the military brass and just about everyone else. …

“Look, I’m a Republican.”

I think we have to campaign everywhere. One of the big mistakes the Democratic Party has made in the recent past is not running candidates for every election. We relinquished areas we figured were not worth the trouble and the Right swooped in and solidified their hold (and solidified at the local level, which is,…

She’s not likely to win (McConnell siphons just enough $$ to Kentucky to keep voters happy), but that’s not the point. The point is forcing the GOP to spend $$ campaigning in states they didn’t plan on having to campaign in.

“Now that some conservatives have had a taste of not being utterly fucked left right and center by insurers, they’re going to be awfully mad when the politicians they vote for take it all away.”

Except only one of the parties is “hyperpartisan,” as he puts it. Obama bent over backwards trying to work with the GOP, and yet McConnell bragged on Day One about making him a one-term President. The GOP has been heading this way since the 1990s (probably the 1980s, really, when Reagan said no Republican should…

Yeah, I agree. The only way I can make it work in my head is that, since Fred made her a face in the campaign to get Nichole back, she’s got a certain amount of protection, since it would not look good to the outside world if the birth mother of the child they’re trying to get back suddenly vanished.

Except that the concerns are based in fear and supported by data. Overwhelmingly, research showed that white students were not negatively affected, via test scores or future earnings, by attending integrated schools, and, as adults, were more likely to have interracial friendships, romantic relationships, and be…

That’s a really, really good point you make- that Fred’s duties seem to be whatever the plot demands, whether it’s receiving foreign dignitaries or overseeing construction of the new Handmaid indoctrination center.

Right? All of this. I am so, so tired of writers introducing things that get dropped later. Whatever happened to Mexico and trading handmaids? Remember that? (another story line I found a bit over the top- the whole reason for the nation to exist is fertility, and they’re going to let their most precious resource…

I like change; I just like it being justified and proceeding as a result of events we actually get to see on screen. I feel like the writers aren’t keeping a close eye on what they’ve said before, probably because they never made it specific enough for themselves when they created it.  It’s fine for the narrator…

Way back in 2011, Melania went on TV (on Joy Behar’s show) and spouted the same birther bullshit about President Obama that Cheetolini was spouting. She’s been trash for a long time.

Yeah, I was under the impression in the first season that New England became the new capital of Gilead.

It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.  The women all lied about what happened and it’s a crime to lie to police. You’re correct that the initial incident probably would have been excused (Bonnie says as much in the first episode); the problem is that Madeline, being Madeline, instinctively lied to the police about…

She was amazing. I mean, yeah, go Team USA and all, but the best parts of yesterday’s matches were Endler’s superhero-like blocks and watching the Thai team’s reaction after they made their goal in the earlier match.

I think about how George RR Martin, prior to giving them the rights, asked D and D who Jon’s parents were, as a test for whether they “got” the series and they later confessed in interviews they only knew what to say because they’d googled ASOIAF fan sites. I feel like that anecdote shows exactly how much work they…

I’ll be surprised if Biden ends up the nominee. I remember his last two runs for the Presidency and he’s really not good in debates. Even as VP, while he was good against Paul Ryan, who’s a fucking idiot, he wasn’t all that good against Sarah Palin, who’s REALLY a fucking idiot. He’s coasting on Obama nostalgia,…

I can’t remember any of this movie, and yet I remember I saw it on a date with the boy I knew I wanted to marry, back in 1991.