For what it’s worth, Dresden’s backstory gets explained and explored in the larger series, along with a HUGE amount of world-building. It’s actually one of the more well-realized worlds in the urban fantasy genre, warts and all. Every loose end in the first story is wrapped up by around the eighth or ninth, with new…

I appreciate you filling in your further thoughts on your point. I understand where you are coming from, even if I don’t entirely agree with you.

I know this is utterly secondary to your point, and I apologize in advance for derailing the conversation (so I’ll make it brief). Your idea that every female character in The Dresden Files is: A. a seductress, B. a damsel in distress, or C. a ball-buster; is utter bullshit. Lara Raith is definitely A. but that’s…

It gives me just the littlest bit of hope that maybe they may actually be on OUR side for the next 4 years.

I explained shade to my parents and my dad said: “There’s a word for what your mom does?” He now rejoices in pointing out shade where he finds it. He’s extremely accurate.

Not true. I was a Hillary supporter and I think there were a lot of problems with her campaign, and lots of Dems are acknowledging that.

So... celebrity endorsements are so powerful that Susan Sarandon helped Trump win yet Messing’s celebrity endorsement wasn’t enough to keep Hillary from losing?

The reason we lost the election is we ran a center right candidate. The votes are the ends of the parties. There is no center anymore.

It only took you two words to call me a dummy, and I voted for Clinton.

I prefer to call it by its now obvious name: The Idiocracy.

Half the people voting for Trump didn’t vote for Trump, they voted against Clinton. Against the crony politics, against the globalism that’s led to widespread inequality, but most of all against the professional politician class that puts out statements like the one above.

You want to know why Hillary Clinton lost? This statement from her encapsulates it beautifully:

Poor, persecuted Bernie bros.

It really floors me that Hillary supporters can be just as ignorant and ridiculous as Trump supporters. I could give you an objective list of why she was a bad Democratic candidate and you would just sit there and respond with “SEXIST REDNECK”.

Any person who doesn’t support a woman’s right to choose should be forced to adopt unwanted children.

I can’t remember the last time Texas even had the possibility of being blue. Y’all. My vote might actually count this time!

Right? I’m a little over the hero-worship that turns to contempt at the slightest mistake. Sure, she made some tone-deaf jokes a few years ago, but she’s said herself that her comedy has evolved and she’s learned. As far as that guy on her staff who defended the guy who sexually assaulted women - he didn’t even work…

What’s the weirder life? Being married to Hitler, being a favored child of Hitler or being the child Hitler doesn’t like because you don’t have the boobs Hitler thinks his daughter should have?

Fuck you, our governor came from your shit state.
We’re losing ten feet of land a day, and he bans people from even saying “climate change” and wants to keep digging for oil in the everglades.
hmmm...what overly obsessed oil state that dried up does that sound like...

How exactly is it misleading?