The younger character definitely slept with a girl, and there were allusions to the older character sleeping around.

Wasn’t Oliver a fresh postgrad in the book, like 23/24?

The book was good. Very good. But so much was in the mind of the young lead character. Action was what was in his head as it happened.

This shows a complete lack of political understanding. For one, a single congressmen isn’t going to steal your right to choose, especially a democrat. Secondly, the entire point of accepting anti-choice democrats is that they can be much stronger as a known politicians than some pro-choice politician who is unknown…

From a pragmatic standpoint, it sucks and is awful but we may well be living in an era of “everyone else vs. them.”

Because of a single issue? I think that’s being short-sighted. If you have to agree with every single issue or not be a Democrat, that’s going to limit your candidates. How about gun control? Would a pro Second Amendment Democrat be ok, or are you going to throw away that candidate too? How about a Democrat who…

To anyone bitching about this, do you want to win, or do you want to be morally superior, because you can’t be both. Do you want to watch democrats lose seats in what should be the most favorable midterm in all of history because there is no perfect candidate? You really want republicans to maintain control of…

I just don’t get how Stassa can turn an incredible blow against the Republican party on their keystone issue into a defeat for the democrats. This was a win! The Democrats won last night! What they did in attracting moderate Republicans worked! The minority party managed to stop healthcare from being repealed. …

They should have refused to court moderate Republicans so that the Republicans could pass their terrible healthcare bill and we could smugly gloat about how bad what they’re doing is for the country while knowing it’s not our fault.

I think it’s the latter. I don’t think the ending is as pat as some of the rest of the narrative is; the movie is more interesting in that these two tendencies (conventional love story/character study of Ned Kynaston) are constantly pulling against each other. I don’t find the love story between them all that…

I may hate them more than Trump supporters. Shall we start a list?

“I don’t know why you’re making this about Emanuel”

I think the difference is that he’s not just threatening the politicians. He’s threatening the PEOPLE of that state, in public. It’s pretty terrifying stuff.

The film Kate refers to the open with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes is Stage Beauty (2004), and I think it’s underrated also. Though it’s quirky, incomplete, and blindingly anachronistic (the film suggests that the introduction of female actors instantly turned everyone onto “naturalistic” acting), I refer my students…

“Clinton lost- get over it! It’s that simple!”

“Today the president of the United States accidentally strolled into a giant wood chipper” is one of the few headlines absurd enough to sum up an end to this administration.

I was in the room when Garfield was being interviewed and to see everything he said taken in a very strange out of context way is incredibly bizarre. He said those things, but his tone and the context of the interview matters. For example, he said on his only days off he’s become obsessed with having RuPaul parties.…

Oh you wait. When this shit starts really blowing up Fox and right media et al will dump Trump and Co. and begin salvaging the rest of the GOP. There will be plenty of think pieces about it being the fault of Hilary and the DNC for not running more competent campaigns. Why didn’t Obama use his last days to stop the…

You would prefer a war with Russia?

It was classified intelligence from a partner source, an allied nation that would have to approve the declassification of the info because their agents in place would be at risk of serious harm if the info got out. And of course Trump didn’t declassify the intel, he babbled pridefully to his Russian handlers. …