No, smitten is correct given the contracted “she has” in the sentence. “Has smote” would be grammatically incorrect, at least by modern standards.

Unfortuantely that’s just not true. Clinton’s career has been marked by strong policies that undermine the poor. Supporting welfare reform? The crime bill? Instigating the coup in Honduras? The hundreds of children and other innocents killed in Libya? Not supporting a $15 federal minimum wage? Not wanting to push…

Let me tell you, as a black woman, her ‘isn’t unfair that there’s a corporate glass ceiling so sad I can’t make partner oh no I’m not getting paid as much as my husband (but at least they’re both employed) #whitefeminism doesn’t go over so well for me. Those are all important issues. (And I am a white collar type…

The person who was complaining about the usage of BCE/CE was doing so under the (mistaken) belief that somehow it’s a revisionist (!?!?!?) system. I think they think that late 20th century/early 21st century historians had a meeting and decided “we can’t refer to Christ because we don’t want to offend anyone, let’s…

Using “BCE” and “CE” doesn’t mean you can’t teach the origins of the Gregorian calendar. But if we want to use it as the international standard, it’s ridiculous to expect people in India, China, Iran, etc to be cool with calling this year 2016 Anno Domini and some date in their history being XYZ Before Christ.

Again, with this ‘primitive man’ horseshit... You made all of these statements almost verbatim on the article about the new storage technology and clearly haven’t learned anything since then.

I mean, really, the reason we use Common Era (even though it’s not really “Common Era”) is to find a secular fig leaf for a religious date marker that would be way too cumbersome to change now. If you really wanted a true “Common Era” designator, it would probably have to be 1492 or 1522 (when Magellan’s fleet…

Religions don’t spring up out of nowhere FSM notwithstanding. A man existed in some capacity that led to the uprising of what is now known as Christianity. He may not have been called Jesus, he may have been born in a different town, most of the pertinent facts that apply to him may be false, but there was a patient…

What with Jesus not being a name the hebrews used, nazareth not existing during the time he supposedly was there

I linked these elsewhere but here you go:

I truly wanted to engage with you but you are coming at me with a level of aggression that makes it difficult

Not denying there was some acrimony on both ends in 2008 but surely you can agree that the Clinton campaign lobbed more than its fair share of attacks? (“You’re likeable enough, Hillary” isn’t even on the same planet as ‘get a load of how Muslim-y this guy looks!’)

Fair enough; her adoption of Obama’s tactics seems to be serving her well this time around.

You know, my knee-jerk reaction was to agree with you because I don’t like things that feel like an attempt to hide from the past, but then I considered how you explain B.C. and A.D. to kids when they ask what it means, and it really does imply that Jesus was a historical fact, which is pretty unpleasant imo.

Wait there’s people who complain about BCE and CE being used to indicate years on the Gregorian calendar now? Even though BCE and CE have been used since at least 1856?!?!? Dang. I learn something new via Gizmodo comments every day. Usually about how people don’t like things.

I’m not saying he isn’t liberal, but 1. you shouldn’t even imply a Democratic socialist who is very popular with 40% of your base is anything like Donald Trump, that is just fucking stupid from a strategic standpoint (even if it is a joke) and 2. he said Sanders made him look like Trump, yet he’s the one who told a…

Ooooooof. Hillary, darling, trust me: you’re actually really funny when you get sarcastic and rip into the GOP and sexism. Do that. Honestly.

Is it a Latino making a joke at the expense of Latinos? Because that’s not the same thing as when powerful white people make POC the butt of their jokes.

Can we please discuss the line, “Get one guess, who’s the most liberal, I make Bernie Sanders look like Trump,” because that shit is ridiculous considering the “colored people time” joke that followed.