This was funny, but the teeth thing isn't. Dental care is really difficult to come by for alot of Americans.

She’s too smart not to save her seat.

To me this just means her home-state supporters are pragmatists who decided, based on apparent viability at the time, that it was more important to make their votes count than give her the win.

Sure, except that she had CHIP because of Hillary Clinton, after Hillary was unsuccessful in getting universal healthcare. Incrementalism is reality—-CHIP was the consolation prize in the 1990s, and a really important one.

Agreed. AOC often talks like her allies (democratic socialists, I guess?) are the first to take on these really big fights, when she’s standing on the shoulders of others. It’s not just that Hillary Clinton deserves credit for CHIP. It’s that CHIP was the compromise position after Hillary was unsuccessful in getting…

Because women are literally socialized to put up with this. Girls are taught practically before they can speak that when a relative or family friend wants a hug or a kiss, it isn’t nice to say no. It takes time to change society. Everyone screaming that Biden’s fine and that the women who are speaking up are wrong…

No one would think this was okay if Nancy Pelosi was doing it. Which, it can’t be stated enough, she is not.  Hillary Clinton wasn’t doing it.  Elizabeth Warren isn’t doing it.  

And let’s face it, no one gives a shit if he makes a dude feel uncomfortable with his touching. Even if he does this shit with men and women, it’s only an issue when he does it with women.

amnesia!Carol had her mentor constantly telling her to repress her emotions.  That was success, according to what she was told.  So, yeah, she wasn’t emotionally invested in anything and she was avoidant towards the emotions her repressed-memory-dreams pulled up.

#1 I read that article, it sounds like you’re making alot of a conversation—she was commenting on a picture on the wall and it sounds pretty reasonable to me.

Carol Danvers is known as Captain Marvel in more recent comics.  

A superhero film led by a woman does not need to be a woman’s empowerment film. One thing that I thought was great about this movie was that it basically didn’t matter that the lead is a woman. Since she is, and one that was a pilot in 1989 in the US, the script acknowledged the inherent difficulties in that. I…

Democrats in the Senate who publicly said Al Franken should resign who are NOT named Kirsten Gillibrand: Mazie Hirono, Claire McKaskill, Maggie Hassan, Kamala Harris, Patty Murray, Tammy Baldwin, Bob Casey, Joe Donnelly, Sherrod Brown, Debbie Stabenow, Heidi Heitkamp, Ed Markey, Michael Bennet, Maria Cantwell, Dick…

They haven’t been silent, you just have to watch CSPAN to find out that they’re doing/saying anything because it isn’t interesting enough for news/cable news to cover it.  The Parkland kids are interesting, so they do get covered.   

Kathleen Rice, the one screaming for Pelosi’s head, is also the one who would call the cops on you.

Stephen Colbert’s been on broadway-Sondheim, no less- not exactly an “average man.”

I should have said “free speech,” not “First Amendment” here. The court only addressed the free exercise argument, which also falls under the First Amendment, but it’s not what usually comes to mind. 

Two things people might be interested in reading on whether the Colorado Commission was actually hostile:

The Supreme Court very specifically did NOT say that this fell under the baker’s First Amendment rights or that designing a wedding cake is a creative act. The Court didn’t address the First Amendment argument at all. If I’m remembering correctly, Thomas’s dissent was the only opinion that addressed the First…

Unlike Rep. Maxine Waters, reclaiming his time is something he rarely has time to do.