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I love Elizabeth Warren but it annoys me to see people trying to push her into a presidential run. We need her in Congress. Her and a few hundred more like her. What good would it do to have her in the White House if she ends up with a Congress full of loons? Obama's color is just the frosting on the hate cake. They hate all Democrats. They hated Bill Clinton and tried to de-legitimize his presidency. They hate Hilary too. The fact that Obama is black just ratchets up the hatred and affects how they express it but it goes much deeper than that.

I'm loving this Cliven Bundy debacle. This guy is the perfect embodiment of tea party principles: lawlessness, violence, anarchy, racism, ignorance of history, etc... all wrapped up in one aging, bloated grifter. Sadly I'm already seeing some weak ass liberals claiming "Why are we talking about this guy? Stop giving him attention!!" The truth is we should NEVER stop talking about him. He should be thrown in the face of every Republican who mentions "personal responsibility" or wants to cut food stamps because of all the "fraud" or any gun fetishist who blathers on about the government coming for their guns. Cliven Bundy is the left's Benghazi (except he has the benefit of being a real issue.) I just hope we have the sense and the balls to use him effectively.

Tamara Tunie is appearing in an off-Broadway play called "The Library." How fabulous does this woman look? She's another one who simply doesn't age.

I can believe it. I used to work at a radio station and some of our DJs did freelance voice work for clients around the country. They didn't care what it was they were asked to say as long as the money was good.

No. It's the free market in action. Conservatives love the free market until it works against them then they cry about bullying. They better get used to it. Since SCOTUS has seen fit to decimate decades worth of campaign finance law people are going to be paying a lot more attention to who funds what causes and past donations are going to be used against people in the present.

So apparently James Franco tried to hook up with a 17 year old online. http://gawker.com/james-franco-tried-to-hook-up-with-a-17-year-old-on-ins-1557491436.

There's no way that would've passed. Single payer is still the goal but that can't happen as long as the Republicans control one part of Congress.

Watching the Republican reaction to the ACA signups has been the highlight of my day. It reminds me of the way I felt when they called Ohio for Obama in 2012. I'll never understand the political mindset that simply refuses to accept bad news. Nobody wins all the time yet the GOP can never admit when it's lost. They lost this battle. They lost it everywhere and in every way. They lost in the legislature when they tried to stop it. They lost in the courts when SCOTUS upheld it. They lost at the ballot box when the guy who promised to repeal it on day one got his ass handed to him by voters. They lost when they shut down the government to defund it. They lost when 7.1 million people signed up and every time somebody signs up they lose again. It's not like there haven't been losses on the other side: the employer mandate, the contraception mandate, etc… so the GOP needs to take the victories it got and accept reality.

I don't see it. They're turning into a family but I don't see anything romantic brewing between them. Now that we've seen Michonne describe what happened in the refugee camp, I'm going to go back and check out her flashback. And once again, Maggie fails to ask about her sister.

True and that's what the Democrats ought to be doing more of. The War on Women is a real thing in the GOP. As is the war on the poor and the war on voting. I was happy to see the Democrats finally grow a pair. That's one thing I'm looking forward to with a Hilary Clinton campaign. The Clintons are street fighters. Obama has always tried to play too nice for my taste.

I think a lot of these dire predictions are just concern trolling by the liberal (read: corporate) media. All of these reports about the Dems losing the Senate came out at the same time last week. That tells me there's an agenda being served. It doesn't help that Priorities USA has made the unfathomably stupid decision to basically sit out the midterms in order to focus on Hilary in 2016. Yes the roll out was a disaster. I don't dispute that but but there's no telling what can happen between now and Election Day. I've been following politics for too long to make predictions. Remember that Obama and McCain were fairly evenly matched in 2008…and then Lehman Brothers imploded. The real (electoral) issue with Obamacare is that there's not the kind of marketing/rhetorical push that the program needs because we don't have an equivalent to the Koch Brothers who are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads. Also the fact that Democrats are, for the most part, total pussies. </end Jon Stewart>

I couldn't care less about Maggie and Glenn being reunited. They've both been so supremely selfish about how their quests affect the people around them. Glenn sitting in that tunnel saying "If Maggie went through, I'm going through" just made me want to feed him to walkers.

Sometimes I wish I could be one of those people who doesn't care about politics.

A soap star twofer. The independent film "Every Secret Thing" will be premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. The film - produced by Frances McDormand - stars Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, and Diane Lane. (How's that for girl power? LOL!) In it Renee Elise Goldsberry (Evangeline, OLTL) plays a character who is married to one played by Jason Pendergraft, who played Dixie's frenemy Dr. Anders on AMC 2.0.

I don't see where Rick matters any more. I don't see him being the leader again. Not after the way things went down at the prison. If the rest of whatever group they end up with wants Carol to be part of the community, Rick will just have to suck it up. Which should be easy once Carol explains what Lizzie was ready to do to Judith and how far they went to protect her. The only thing Rick needs to say is "thank you for keeping my child alive."

This show needs to pick and end date and resolve to go out in spectacular fashion. This premise just isn't sustainable anymore.

A very powerful episode. I haven't read the comics but I was aware of the whole Ben/Billy thing so I was wondering if the show would go there or veer. I'm glad to see they went there. There was no place in the world for someone like Lizzie. The moment she pulled the whole "We don't always have to kill them" thing on the tracks, I knew she had to change or die. It's the reason I could never warm up to Hershel. He often did stupid [&#33;@#&#036;%^&amp;*] in the name of preserving his "humanity." That's a viewpoint on this show that makes me insane. IMO, you should always kill walkers. Every walker can create exponentially more walkers. Kill them all. Plus it's just merciful. It's a chance to finally give another person some peace. There was hope for Mika but Lizzie was just wrong. She was a threat to everyone around her. Her feeding the walkers at the prison fence helped result in the walkers bringing the fence down.

I love the hell out of my girl Kelli Giddish but the one I couldn't take my eyes off of was Sherri Saum. When she was all badass and cold, I thought to myself, "Now there's RJ Gannon's daughter." It's amazing because I watch The Fosters and she plays this all-loving earth mother type yet I had no problem seeing her as this stone cold bitch on SVU. As for the story, yeah, it was a cop out but I loved seeing Fin really trying to be there for Rollins. What the hell is up with Amaro? He's moving into this creepy stalker mode. First with Maria, then Rollins. I'd like to think that his line to Liv about being extra careful after her abduction was true but there also seems to be more going on there. We don't know what he's been doing to Maria that has made her keep calling Liv and I'm not sure how he's going to react now that he knows about it.

The Florida election wasn't about the ACA. That was a case of poor turnout. It was a special election and people just don't show up for those. They barely show up for midterms. It's the reason Chris Christie spent millions of taxpayer dollars to avoid being on the same ballot as Corey Booker. One of the things I loathe about media coverage of elections is the fixation on trying to make local elections about national narratives. When examining electoral wins and failures, look at the local first. Back when Dennis Kucinich was one of Ohio's representatives I used to see the national media constantly try to spin how and why he got elected over and over. They tried to make it about ideology or Obama or Clinton or whatever. The reason Kucinich kept getting elected was because he was responsive to his constituents (before he turned into a famewhore). When you called his office, you got a response. It didn't matter whether you were calling about pending legislation or a stuck railroad crossing. That's the reason I'm against term limits. If I'm lucky enough to have an elected official who does his job to my satisfaction then why shouldn't I be allowed to give him the job over and over?

Word. It reminds me of LOST. There was no place you could talk about that show without the Skate/Jate wars eating everything alive.

Has Maggie even mentioned her sister? With all her fixation on finding Glenn could she not just add Beth's name to the signs she wrote?

Those businesses broke state law. If they want to be bigots they need to move to a state where bigotry is approved of or find a way to become a private club that sells memberships. Yeah, the limited government mantra is a complete lie. Republicans don't want limited government they want government they can manipulate and misuse for profit and to advance an ideological agenda. They want limited government for the same reason criminals want fewer cops on the street.

For the NYC and/or theatre folks: Timothy D. Stickney (ex-RJ Gannon, OLTL) will be appearing in a NYC production of King Lear for the next two months. I'm going to be in NYC this May but unfortunately this show closes before I get there.

Both. Burning down a safe refuge made me sick especially given that the show demonstrated at the beginning how hard it is for them to stay safe in the open. You'd think that after having spent the night in a car trunk they'd be a little more grateful for that moonshiner's shack. The song was just ridiculous. I actually kept pausing the show because I thought I had a window open on my computer that was autoplaying some kind of commercial.

Has anybody actually been forced to provide a service to a gay couple? All the arguments in favor of these laws have been based on hypotheticals. Has anybody actually been forced to provide their services? I'm not talking about businesses that refused and then were punished by the marketplace. That's just the free market working the way it should.