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This has been quite a good day in the courts: the DC Circuit takes a do-over on Obamacare, BP is found negligent for the Gulf spill, marriage equality hits two blood red states, and Ohio gets its early voting days back in time for the midterms. This is a champagne worthy day for this liberal politics wonk.

Capaldi's got this. He was wonderful and I'm really liking the shift in tone away from romance. I'm looking forward to a new companion. Clara's just a poorly-written mess and I can't bring myself to care about her at all. The Paternoster gang is always a pleasure to me and it was nice to see Vastra and Jenny's marriage fleshed out a little bit. I found some of the comments about The Doctor's age to be way out of line. At first I was glad they nodded to the change but after a while I got tired of them acting like the doctor regenerated as a paraplegic.

I'm not sorry. I never had anything against Clara but she didn't work for me. I hated the whole "impossible girl" thing.

You're welcome to it. We've still got people here in Ohio trying to get them to bring the DNC to Columbus. If we had the RNC in Cleveland and the DNC in Columbus on top of the usual superPAC ad blitz and the visits we get from candidates, I think I will just have to stay drunk for the entire year of 2016. I barely survived 2012 because the right wing dark money was gunning for my Sherrod Brown in addition to Obama. Hilary needs to put some space between her and Obama so I'm glad to see she's starting to do it now. In fact it would actually be very good for them to have a public "split" sometime in the next year. The lefties you're talking about are the Warren/Sanders folks. I won't lie, I'm not entertaining that nonsense.Warren needs at least two more terms in Congress before she'd be anthing close to White House material. Part of the reason I'm down for Hilary is because I want a street fighter. If there's one thing the Clintons are good for it's a good, old-fashioned street fight.

What will voters rally to him for? Is he officially running for something? You're not talking about the presidency are you? Please tell me that not even Rick Perry is stupid enough to run for the White House again.

I didn't pay much attention to anything Rick Perry involved so this a nice surprise. But the case I'm waiting on is Bob McDonnel, I'm not naive enough to believe he would actually do jail time but I really hope he's convicted.

Sorry! Fangurl jubilation got the best of me and I didn't check.

I saw her last year and told her exactly that. LOL!

Renee Elise Goldsberry will be appearing on the Fey/Poehler comedy The Nest and later this season on Showtime's Masters of Sex. http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/renee-elise-goldsberry-the-nest-glen-powell-ride-along-2/

I intend to leave town during the convention. The moment the dates get set I'm putting in my vacation request at work and booking airline tickets. I work just a few blocks from what will be the convention site and I have no desire to be in town when this all goes down. My only question is whether to just leave the state or the country.

A lot of people here keep referencing Miami '72. Unfortunately, this city doesn't have the infrastructure for two conventions. As it is now, it's going to come down to the wire to fulfill half the promises we made to the RNC. It's been amazing to see what happened since the announcement came down. The city is already stepping up construction projects that were underway. My commute now has three more construction zones than it had last week.

I think around September/October. There are still people who are hoping that Cleveland can get the DNC convention too. I don't see that happening and it would be a nightmare if we did. I'm going to put my money on Philadelphia for now.

Both things are true. Cleveland's economic base was steel and auto manufacturing so the last few decades have been terrible as they have for the entire rust belt. Over the last few years we've seen growth in other tech fields, especially medical (think Cleveland Clinic).

That poor child is doomed.

This is why people need to not "compromise" on kids. If somebody doesn't want to become a parent then they shouldn't and if that ends the relationship, so be it.

I have no real problem with deporting adults (not kids who have been here their entire lives) but I consider the people at the border now to be refugees not "illegals." These people are here because they are trying to escape what is basically a war zone. We've seen this issue with other countries. Syrian refugees have flooded Jordan, Turkey and other countries. Somali refugees ran to Kenya. What we have here is a humanitarian crisis and we need to deal with it. But we can't deal with it in a responsible fashion because right wingers have decided that the best response to anything they don't like is to do nothing and scream about freedom.

Whether they think so or not, SCOTUS opened the door for a flood of religious exemption suits. They will have to deal with this issue again and IMO relatively soon.

Both of them? Wow. I wish Sherri all the best. As for McCarthy, her ignorant, damaging ass should never have gotten the job to begin with. Barbara picking her was like McCain picking Palin.

Low turnout always benefits the right wing.

The ep was garbage but it was all worth it to see Munch again. Gawd I miss him. IMO, Belzer/Munch are to SVU what Jerry Orbach/Briscoe was to the mothership.

Plus Obamacare is working in that state big time so McConnell already has that strike against him. But in the end it's going to be - as it always is - about turnout.

Republicans turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior when it's directed toward their opponents (see: James O'Keefe) so I don't know why they are surprised when it happens to them. This is what happens when you let a rabid dog off the leash. You can't control who gets bit.

What did you expect? Obamacare is working and we got decent jobs numbers so they have to dig up that dead horse so they can beat it some more.

The Fed should've put Bundy and his thugs down when they went after him but instead they decided to take the so-called high road. Those terrorists should be in jail or the ground but instead they've been emboldened. Sooner or later they're going to hurt or kill someone and that person's blood will be on the hands of the Federal agents who caved.

Acknowledging the behavior of one side isn't denying the behavior of another. That the problem with false equivalence. You're so busy looking for excuses that you skip what gets said and go right to what you imagine is being said. Bush was mocked for things he said and did. The Republicans hate Obama for what he is: young, black, Democrat. They also hate him for what he represents: a world where white men no longer call the shots. Bush got the same treatment all presidents get. He got mocked when he said and did stupid things. That comes with the territory. That is vastly different than demanding Obama's birth certificate. Especially when you consider that they wouldn't accept it even when they got it regardless of how that meant that they basically called Hawaii's government illegitimate. And don't even get me started on the Tea Party which was formed solely in reaction to a black man running for office. I'm not even going to play your little game of "Look over there!" by your trying to blame everyone else in Congress for the wars. Funny how every President is held responsible for the military conflicts during their regime except Bush. Do we blame Congress for Korea or Vietnam or any other military conflict we've gotten into? No we give the responsibility to the Commander in Chief. Only in the case of Bush do we have people who suddenly decide that Commander in Chief is a powerless position. You mean like Obama has? We can't even gets a jobs or infrastructure bill passed because the Repubs are so focused on hating him that they are willing to shut down the government than accept the existence of a law that was passed, held up by SCOTUS and approved of by the people when the guy who promised to repeal it on day one resoundingly lost. Warren in office would just be more of the same until we get Congress fixed and functional again. Besides, I think she's simply better suited to make laws at this point. Watching her go after bankers in Congress was a thing of beauty. We need more of that.