He did? I can’t find anything mentioning it. I’m not doubting you, the Star-Advetiser’s article on it was as deep as I would expect out of that paper (sigh) and I can’t find mention of him in the national media articles I read about her campaign launch.

Sometimes reboots aren’t just about capitalizing on the attachment people have to a brand but also to raise interest in the original. The X-Files and 24 revivals got more people watching the original seasons on Hulu.

I think one aspect of what frustrated me about Filipovic’s defense of Harris is that I felt it’s a bit of a self-fulfilling limitation. I’m sure there are a number of black female candidates who refused to go along with that and had their careers limited by white media elites deeming them not-serious. I haven’t…

Yeah, I give her a lot of credit for firing Dave Becky and am very disappointed in those who are still his client.

Er, is Maria one of those people who give you a blank look when you excitedly tell them you found a restaurant that serves breakfast for lunch and dinner? Going out for breakfast always felt like such a treat but its even better if you can get that without getting up early or having to leave the house when it’s cold…

My only hesitation is that the book was so good and I’d hate an adaptation to not live up to the book... but it’s not like the show being bad will erase the book’s existence so even that wouldn’t be so awful.

Being bi he sees something like that and thinks he wouldn’t enjoy a guy chocking him with his dick so he doesn’t like watching that happening to a female porn performer.

I’ve only seen one interview with Pete Buttiegig but he strikes me more as “Hover his cursor over Mario for a long time before declaring ‘Fuck it, I do want to be a Princess’ and picking Peach.” type.

Most of what I read about Deen was on Jezebel.

He wha... sheesh, I remember when he was being hyped as a feminist and someone women could get into watching and his scenes include gagging his costar to the point she tears up? My husband watches straight porn occasionally and he sticks to older stuff because he’s scared off by all the gagging in the previews for…

I grew up in the 80s when his legend was still big and the era was a big factor. Part of what I learned was scary about him was the idea that he seemed normal — at least long enough to get his victims in the car — was shocking, as well as the idea that he could convince male authority figures to give him a pass. Bundy…

I think he’s one of the Republicans who appears on Chris Hayes’ show and he does not have AOC’s ability to discuss an issue with clarity and enthusiasm. He’s just another Republican whose media training seemed to only consist of trying to shift the conversation back to the talking points.

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Sigh. I am so tired of how some people see politics as ‘if you’re not praising my favorite candidate you must be doing it to help one of their opponents’. I think there’s a lot of telling on themselves, there.

The Luxor in Vegas used to have a restaurant named Isis. It was an old-school fancy restaurant, the kind that served old-school high-end foods like lobster bisque and beef wellington, they brought a tray of petit fours with the dessert menu. It fit with the resort’s Egyptian theme and being named after a goddess…

Ah, thanks for the explanation! I remember when California had Domestic Partnerships but not marriage for same-sex couples and Prop 13 had to be updated to say that inheriting your home from your deceased partner was the same as inheriting it from your spouse, so I understand the issue with naming specific groups inste…

Could you elaborate on that? I think I understand the difference between a separate charge and a sentence enhancement but why would one be better than the other?

My husband and I met just as cell phones were becoming commonplace and less of a luxury and he disappeared on the last guy he dated by changing his number (he did have the excuse that his phone number had an out-of-state area code, which was still a big deal then). Ghosting is a new term but it isn’t a new thing.

I agree and I hope the people who were organizing to stop the shutdown are spending the next three weeks organizing so that they’re ready to go back right to fighting at the same level as before.

TBH, at this point I don’t have a clue what the right wing grift is about. It used to be that conservative books from people like Coultier would be mass-purchased by billionaire activists who wanted to make those ideas seem much more popular than they were but is that even necessary nowadays with Fox News in its…