Right around the time it became clear she was going to run. That was by design. Someone paid a lot of money for them to change their minds like that.

It caused quite a bit of fallout in the department I work for, but I think they’re going to keep the changes they made, because New York has already passed a similar law.

They didn’t even wait until he was out of office! I work for a research university with nearly 30,000 employees, I can tell you that our leadership and HR people were not happy about this. They were like ‘we spent a year working on compliance for this and now some judge just says actually, no?’

Yeah, but you actually get something for your taxes: universal health care, child care, loads of social services. In America, we get tax cuts for rich people and defense spending.

What do you mean the public bought them? As if that would have stopped Bush and Cheney, public opinion?

It’s fantastic. I like how the episodes are not all the same, but have a lot of similar themes. Some are downright disturbing, and some are beautiful.

How much do you want to bet the announcement on Tuesday is another bait and switch, like he has another hotel opening or something?

It’s also a false equivalencey for him to use the Iraq WMD story as some sort of proof that the CIA is wrong about Russia. The actual CIA intelligence that they had regarding WMD in Iraq was ignored and twisted by the Bush administration to make their case, like the time Cheney leaked a story about aluminum tubes that…

I’m guessing it has something to do with the high security in Times Square for NYE. I worked production for one of Hillary’s events when she was running for Senator and it was serious business.

Yeah I get that. I also have to say that as someone who now lives in the States but has lived in a number of other countries, including Australia and the U.K., I’m continually surprised at how bad race relations are here. I’m not saying these other countries are perfect or have it all worked out, but in the U.K., for…

I say this as someone who enjoys reading your comments, and perhaps I’m out of line as a white bloke, but I’ve been hearing this discussion about diversity in entertainment, not just film, for a while now, and I guess I don’t understand why it seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of attention compared to…

I think a lot of that has to do with the creators of these films/shows presenting an image of how their audiences want to see themselves, or the lives they aspire to have. Take Nancy Meyer, for example. As a working class white person, it probably feels good to see a nice white family in Santa Barbara with their…

I have been asking this question for nearly eight years and have never received a satisfactory answer: “seri, people, what did Michelle Obama ever do to you?” “Hey, maybe it would be cool if we could get our kids to more healthy foods...” “fuck you! Don’t tell us what to do! We will feed our kids junk food all day…

I thought as much, thanks! I think I need to go back and read the series again.

Wasn’t he The Man In Black in the first few books, and then the Crimson King in the last few? Or was The Man In Black a servant of the Crimson King? I have to go back and read up a bit!

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That part is cool, but I think Iowa gets too much attention and sort of pre-empty you.

You need more electoral votes to make it worth our while. Thanks though.

You’re making the argument that John Kerry being critical of Israel because its government has for decades brutalized the Palistinean people and effectively created an apartheid state is somehow a greater issue than Trump making hateful statements about entire ethnicities and religions?

I get your point, but I will not do this.