I stopped reading after the Jaime-Claire reunion, so I am happy pretending that’s exactly where it stopped. Great series guys, just only read the first few books/watch the first 3-ish seasons!
(I’ll also admit a big part of the appeal of Outlander for me was the Scottish setting; even historic Paris was pretty…

FDR also got the New Deal passed by excluding a lot of people those farmers didn’t like, such as black folks. I can’t blame him, given the politics of the day, but like you said, let’s not rewrite history; the New Deal was built on the backs of minorities so white rural people could benefit, just like so much else of…

Yeah height really changes things. I’m 135 lbs at 5'1" and routinely get labeled as “chunky” or “plus size”* because of how extreme the weight looks on me (plus I carry it *all* in my stomach.) Women who are my looks-equivalent at taller heights usually carry far more weight proportionally. Like, 150 lbs at 5'4" looks…

“it seems weird to say you’d both enthusiastically vote for a presidential candidate with no experience (yet.)“

Come for the rants about historical accuracy, stay for the obscure historiography references!

Oh man, wait for the chapter on how the early Catholic church didn’t care much at all about The Gays. (Or better, check out the book by John Boswell: “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality.” “Cartographies of Desire” by Gregory Pflugfelder is a great one for a non-Western approach. Both of them blew my mind…

This is what drives me crazy about these kinds of comments; so much of our cultural “memory” of marriage is enshrined from upper middle class norms (usually Western, obviously straight, usually from a very specific time period). So, so many people throughout history didn’t have the same sex norms or gender…

And the New York Times, which these days doesn’t mean much. But really glad to see that the whole “I’d vote for a woman for president, just not *that* woman” thing is starting early this election cycle.

I flip that sign off every time I drive over the border. I cannot fucking believe there are still so many people who support Walker; it’s why I wasn’t surprised Clinton and Feingold lost in WI in 2016. 

“Mr. Big moved to Napa and he and Carrie have a pleasant, platonic friendship.”

This was my favorite version of Mr. Big, and his friendship with Carrie was delightful. Wish they would have kept it that way; Big as a supportive, jokey friend who lived his retirement years in bachelor comfort, and Carrie either being…

Yep. During therapy with my millennial ex, I talked extensively about how exhausted I was working a 40 hour (sometimes 50) job with an hour commute while also doing 75%+ of the cleaning, while my ex worked about 20 hours, had less of a commute, and had to be brow beaten into the little cleaning he did do. He…

Same. I’m all ready to be first in the “No Bernie in 2020" line, but this response seems measured and articulate and not bad at all.

I think Splinter is just determined to make me disagree with them about everything despite ideologically agreeing about most things on paper.

No no, Elizabeth Warren is the new Hillary Clinton. No wait, Kamela Harris is the new Hillary Clinton.

Lots of fantastic points, but the voting in particular; if the Dems who are attacking Pelosi from her right are substantial enough to threaten her leadership, how in the world is Lee going to garner enough votes? At best, you have the liberal/progressive votes splitting for Pelosi/Lee, and then the mod Dems get their…

Until she runs, *this is a worthless post.* Barbara Lee has made absolutely no movements towards suggesting she’s even thinking of going for the Speaker position, and yet all of a sudden she’s being pushed and pushed.
Also, do people really get what the Speaker *does*? Speakers corrals votes, pushes folks to support…

She was on Twitter two days ago praising Ostras-Cortez and how much she admires the passion and activism. So, yes she will.

I really, truly do not get the argument that Pelosi should step down as Speaker because of the usual political lip service paid to “bipartisan” efforts after a historic election day (best for the Dems since the 1970's!), and because she is somehow against progressive policies when she’s:
1) released an official policy…

That’s my big confusion; why are people on the left assuming Pelosi is absolutely sincere in her bipartisan remarks *the day after an election*, despite her track record (not letting a single Dem vote slip over taxes or the ACA repeal), but everyone rolls their eyes at Trump or McConnell when they pull out this BS…

Yeah the Democratic demonization is what confuses me. Like everyone is screaming for a younger (thus probably less experienced at this moment in time), progressive (how would a progressive be better at wrangling House Dem votes?) speaker, but offering few names; it’s like everybody is confused about what the speaker…

Aerie! Great fit, and almost always on sale. I get a free bra for every 5 I buy, and their T-shirt bras are frequently $20-25 online.