We also have to secure our elections from interference. Voting machines have got to go. Voting is too important to leave it so vulnerable.

So I’m thinking enough time has passed and liberals and progressives need to take over the Republican Party and turn it *back* into the party of the people and let the corporatists and racists swell the paltry numbers left in the Democratic Party.

Am I the only one who hears ‘House Chaplain’ and cringe?

“Life was an entire movie about people making the absolute worst possible decisions in every situation they found themselves in.”

Huh? What? You mean if we have sex, I don’t OWN you? B-b-b-b-but..

Maybe I’m being an ass, but I was appalled by Dany’s reaction to her child being killed. Either Ms. Clarke was incapable of facial expressions (granted it was very cold), or she sucks as an actor, or was mandated by an incompetent production team to remain totally out of character during the entire scene.

I love Natalie.

Public education is UNdead. A shambling, necrotic, and sickening hulk endlessly hungering for fresh brains.

I had a horrible public school experience, especially upon entering my Senior High to find every elective I had signed up for: contract reading, civics (yes, an elective), et al REMOVED from my schedule because Bill Bennett. This was strategy. I’m convinced of it.

I think Ellen DeGeneres has her part to play in the shifting of society in this country. It’s as valid and necessary as as any of our individual parts. Integral to the success of any shift is self-determination, which engenders a deeper internalization of the requisite changes that make the shift sustainable. And that…

Reasonable discourse, which absolutely requires a basis of fact, is anathema to selling airtime. Media gets far more mileage out of telling us what to think rather than reporting data and leaving us to think for ourselves.

Ignorance and the utter lack of vetted nutritional information is rampant in our culture. Nutrition is trendy- always has been and always will be. There is little actual science to connect us with a universally ideal diet.

I thought the character development was severely lacking. The only emotionally impactful thing that happened was Han Solo’s exit, but what?- no funeral fer chrissakes?!