It’s been thirteen years, and I still secretly wish the kids that sent me IMs of the same could be tried for something, too. I got out alive, but damn. That shit took a lot of healing, and I still have social anxiety issues that I’m working through.

Bottom line: fuck the bullies. And anyone who doesn’t teach their…

I will be there.

It’s an important conversation to have, but it’s also important to remember that there is a feminist argument to be made for letting Clinton’s gender tip the scale between two otherwise very similar candidates.

And, yes, he is Jewish. Although my seven year old watching television is less likely to know that just by him standing being the president’s podium. It’s certainly a milestone in its own right, but children connect more immediately with celebrities/princesses/what have you that look like them. And since childhood is…

Of course, and for the same reason I would take Bernie over Fiorina or Palin any day. The truth is, Bernie and Hillary are running on such similar platforms and I believe the practical difference in either of their presidencies to be negligible. So I’m voting for Hillary. That would be enough for me, alone, although…

Well you’re guaranteed to hear “Wait a minute, Mr. O’Malley...”

...does that count?

I disagree completely. I think a large part of evening the playing field for any underserved group is getting representatives of that group in office, not just for their actual leadership, but for the example to the next generation that they provide. Women have been equal to men on paper for forty years and still…

So Hillary supporters are either intellectually lazy or disingenuous? I don’t want to get combative, but it seems to me that we should all be able to walk the walk on engaging in intellectual discourse without dismissing the other side.

I consider myself a progressive liberal, who thinks Bernie alienates non-progressives, is unlikely to be able to work with most congressional/senate dems (as we know, GOP is a lost cause), and that therefore we end further to the left under Hillary than we do under Bernie.

If money in politics was the only issue…

So much this. I’ve scoured his website and every pro-Bernie thinkpiece I can find (because I like his policies and I like Denmark) and the most I can come up with is “Revolution.” Which doesn’t really say much. I thought WAPO had right in calling that a “deus ex machina.” “Revolution” alone isn’t an answer. When the…

It terrifies the majority of people who were alive during the cold war.... a possible explanation for why so many of Bernie’s base was born after 1989. Not that the cold war wasn’t full of downright awful red-fear-mongoring propaganda, but we can’t undo fifty years of that between now and November.

It’s a false comparison. Hillary’s electability numbers are post-Rove/Koch-machine. Bernie hasn’t been through that yet, and you know if he’s the nominee he’ll be eviscerated by his own hammer and sickle (or at least the ones GOP super-PACs will plaster over his face). The lack of scandals in Bernie’s history isn’t…

Honestly, I’m worried less about bipartisan support between Hillz v. Bern and more about democratic support. It was democrats that killed Single Payer in the ACA, and it’s moderate democrats that will ensure Bernie’s proposals are DOA. I prefer small steps in the right direction to no steps.

I’m not sure I understand how an organization clinging to life so that it can continue providing health services to the poor and disenfranchised counts as “establishment.” Unless we’re using a definition of “if it doesn’t explicitly support Bernie Sanders, it’s automatically ‘establishment/corporate media/etc. etc.…

Except the penultimate point... if you start sliding then turning your steering wheel INTO the slide for a second will help you regain traction more quickly. And then go on your merry way.

Apparently this story repeated itself in DC last night, btw. God, I am so happy I don’t live there anymore.

Let’s focus on what’s important here: they weren’t on a private email server.

Bless this post.

Because, you know, brown people?? Being a racist old white man must also make you blind.

Lizzie McGuire got me through middle and high school, no joke. All hail.

Just seeing her face makes me angry... could we cover that ish up?