Cause God knows like most silly girls she just can't function without someone telling her how to handle herself at the ball - hands folded, not too many canapés, keep slightly aloof, a bit of cleavage but not too much, try not to prattle on and let the boys do most of the talking about themselves...

Even in the pre-debate runup I thought the news anchors were going to run the debate for her - 30 minutes of should this, should that - big shoulders to stand on.

At least his foray is a lot smaller than previous Russian adventurism, but is still every bit as clumsy. And stands to drive refugees into the hands of ISIS. The bombing that knocked out a flight from Egypt filled with Russians might make Vlad a bit hesitant to take this approach, but his tough guy ego probably can't resist anyway - like Donald, he likes to hit back hard, unappreciative of soft power. Sow => Reap => Weep.

The fuckers, 6 weeks out from the election and they're still trolling with this decades-old bullshit.

Guess it's the contest of 2 penises, and Hillary is just some kind of co-conspirator. Note to The Donald: vaginas aren't nearly as expensive as keeping dicks entertained - ask Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spritzer and Roger Ailes an Bill O'Reilly and Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards and Gary Hart. A lot of aspiring male virility washed up on the rocks.

Many more missing white non-voters - the majority - than any potential minority group - what keeps them at home? And what if Trump or other loonie actually engaged them?

I was expecting to be critical - nicely done - it's a playlist, so keep watching.

Remember the horror that Bill Clinton committed perjury over an affair? 20 years later half of America wants to elect a man who can't tell the truth even on important stuff - in court, in national debates, to the INS or IRS, anywhere. There's a special place in hell for hypocritical sons-of-bitches, and it'll look a lot like the Cleveland convention, just bigger and louder. Hillary's "deplorable" understates the problem.

For those who think Russia helping Syria out will look anything different than Chechnya....

But Trump thinks Putin is "teh Awesome"

And in other alternate universes, gravity sucks upwards, people get younger year by year, and Republicans are compassionate & intelligent human beings.

oh wait, enough gossip, time for the grownup talk.

Folks seem to forget the tried and true ways of turning a plus into a minus - think it was Rove that started a whisper campaign against a guy who built Children's Homes - that he was a pedophile instead of a do-gooder. Anyone can be brought down. Conason again tries to correct the record, but only the tried and true will notice.

What did we gain to lose our souls?

Progressive ideals running into the reality of continual jacked-up impediments. But here's where we run into the "I want it now" Veruca Salts. Are they in government? Are they citizens? Or are they just everywhere? Leave no good idea unstoned.

Read, discuss, panic.

2 Americas, 3 demographics. Hillary's been focused on the Adorables, and shunning the Deplorables, but where's the reacharound for the Plorables? Now that we have a name for them (nope, it's not the 5th TeleTubby), it's time to have a meet and greet, an accommodation, a No Plorable Left Behind moment. Kennedy set us to putting a man on the moon and launched the Peace Corps to save the world - can Hillary bring the Plorables back into the fold? Can we all be one big happy family? I'm willing to give it a go - where do we sign up?

Calling Karl Marx - what was that about controlling the levers of production? well sorry, someone else owns it before you even create it. TPP? it would extend that to the rest of the world. Just sayin'.