The Hall of Fire

I can't believe this might happen. Again. No no no no no no no. Please, God.

Not sure I'm ready to see that. . . . At least at this hour.

Also, hate & fear. Playing on emotion works for many voters. Hate & fear works. I've heard it in the 'brown/black people are going to outnumber us!' 'we will be in the minority' and now with people who may be affected by Trump's policies saying, "He's not hurting the right people."...

Bennet's generally quiet and not at all flashy. But he was basically channeling the wrath of Colorado right there and then. No one really talks about that shutdown in 2013 but we remember it. The flood waters had actually receded a month before but we were grappling with a huge mess. Clean-up had b...

Welcome, Oronin!

Very good idea!

*puts on Haydn's Creation*

*sits back to listen to chaos and darkness become light and humanity*

All this rich, dark Schadenfreude is making me a bit queasy, I have to admit.

Of course he did.

Yes! But I doubt we could afford her.

It'll still be a bigger deal than bald-faced treason, in some Americans' eyes.

I agree that he might have won against Trump in 2016, because he would have kept more men's votes; and women's enthusiasm for voting for him would be essentially their enthusiasm for voting against Trump. Mine is boundless, and I'll vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who that turns out to be.

All good points. I'm sensitive about Sanders because some of his voters really did choose him because he was a white man—and I've seen people suggest nominating him because he'll be more likely to attract non-college-educated white men, who those people seem to think are the only voters that matter—...

Maybe when Irika is older she might like it (and not be too young for the scares).

Roma is streaming on Netflix! Honestly, although I like both, these days I'm more excited about TV shows than movies. That ~2-hour time limit on movies really limits the storytelling. As someone who likes novels better than short stories, I prefer the medium that can do justice to a novel (or tell a...

So, all three seasons of The Expanse (my favorite TV obsession these days) begin streaming worldwide on Amazon (200+ countries) on February 8th. Season 4 is filming now and will also stream on Amazon. (The first two seasons are already streaming on Amazon in the US.) It's only the best science ficti...

Of the ones you saw, yov, what’s your pick? The Favourite by a huge margin. And unlike a lot of these kinds of high falutin' art movies, it's a really entertaining, wickedly funny movie. It's the (apparently mostly true) story of two women trying to get into the inner circles of the slightly buffon...

True, but four years of Trump later those same voters may choose differently—especially if, as seems likely to me, the younger and less white alternatives are also progressives.

Of the ones you saw, yov, what’s your pick?

Sanders is an old white guy at a time when old white guys are old hat. Nominating him would sap the enthusiasm of exactly the young and/or female and/or nonwhite electorate that just turned out big-time to vote against Trump's agenda. It would not win back any of the uneducated white men who still b...

Voronwë, you are as much the opposite of that piece of ... crud *she said delicately* as I can possibly imagine.