Regarding your first point, this is my all-time favorite quote regarding Libertarianism (to the best of my admittedly limited research the attribution is accurate)

I wonder at what point libertarians actually become crazy assholes. Like in paper “less government, more social freedom” sounds like a believable political idea. Did it just go off the rails at some point? Like Republicans used to be a real party. Then they adopted the Southern Strategy. Was there a similar path of…

Why do libertarians hate combs?

Teri for president!

This explanation makes sense:

There IS a special place in Hell for women not supporting women. It's called Fox News. And it's a very bad place.

It feels really good to do stuff like that. I've done similar things myself- confronting street harassment, etc. But some men retaliate. There are some REALY fragile egos out there walking around with a deep sense of entitlement. It can get scary fast. Sometimes best just not to engage crazy.

“I’m voting for Hillary (with some reluctance) because I think she’s a battle-tested beltway beeyotch who can clobber Republican radicals.”

Okay, first, I love to see a line up of women in politics. We don’t have enough of those. You know what would be cool though? To do a monthly feature on a woman in politics. AND NOT JUST A WHITE WOMAN IN POLITICS, although those are fine, too. There are a lot of women of color getting shit done.

One time there was a trending twitter hashtag that was like “political sitcoms” or something and I came up with “Gillibrand’s Island” and I just feel like the internet has never given me enough credit.

Susan and Carol are both on my list of “Women I Want to Be When I Grow Up”.

Any excuse to post a Bowie gif I will take.

The gifts to the nanny and the assistant are even more evidence that David Robert Jones was a oner in the best possible way.

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of…

It is a great thing that both Dem candidates have committed to this. Of course the other option is to vote for candidates (with the possible exception of Trump) who are just itching to force 10 year old incest victims to give birth.

The problem is that the Clintons have been around for so long that pretty much everyone heading the major liberal organizations has worked for them at some point. Defending the Clintons is what they do, even to the detriment of the Democratic process. PPA endorsed Clinton right around when her Iowa numbers really…

The solution to disproportionate responses by the government to persons of color is not to call for disproportionate responses by the government to white people. It’s to stop disproportionate responses against persons of color.

*sigh*