Cereal:

You all are not doing much to make me reconsider my no-Facebook stance. I haven't logged in there since sometime last spring, I think...

Oh Sara, that sounds incredibly frustrating. Can your brother and SIL or your mom help back you up, or are they too busy with their own stuff? Also, what someone else said about discussing concerns with your mom. I can only hope this vacation turns into the same fun touve had on other family vacations, eh? :)

I am awake. But may go bak to sleep. It is so warm in my bed and so freezing outside it, I don't want to get up.

Sheesh, Jesse, I need to remember I have 11:00 tickets for Skyfall. Seats were more taken for a first matinee than I've seen in a while.

After I buy my ticket for the wedding, I clearly need to work out where I'm seeing The Hobbit, and get on that or I'm going to be SHAFTED.

But first, I need to go buy cereal. It seems I cannot keep a week's worth in the house. DELICIOUS.

And I also bout 2 taster ounces of Teavana's Youthberry flavoured white tea and I can't get enough of this. Not today, though. Well...not before the movie, anyway. Walking past Teavana on my way back to my car is proving I'm weak.

You all are not doing much to make me reconsider my no-Facebook stance.

All of my Facebook people are fine! But my family is Democrats on both sides, and I did grow up in Massachusetts, so.

And my Hitler person is someone from high school whose friend request I accepted back in the day because, why not? And then the election happened.

I'm pro-abortion. In the real world, it's a great choice for a lot of people. Of course I wish human behavior and contraception methods were perfect, but they aren't. And people I know who have had abortions don't think they were horrible.

I'm pro-abortion in the same way I'm pro-open-heart-surgery and pro-colonoscopy. I don't think everyone should run out and have one for fun this weekend, but as medical procedures go, I'm very very glad they're legal and available for the people who need them.

I only have one FB friend who posts a lot of crazy right-wing stuff. But he only started in the last two months or so.

I've been hearing anecdotes that a lot of Republicans were radicalized during this campaign.

I've only had to block a couple of people and I've a pretty large FB friends list, because of school, b.org, family and former students. Most things I don't agree with I can skip over, but really hateful stuff, I just fucking block, because it's never been from anyone I am close to.

ETA: I am firmly, strongly pro-choice. I've taken friends and one former student to get abortions and it wasn't easy for any of the people I've personally known. I don't EVEN think abortion is a method of birth control, but I DO think it is absolutely the right choice for most women who have one, and it is rarely easy. And for the women for whom it has been easy, no judgement from me; there must be some reason why it was right and easy for them, and I am glad it was safe and legal for them. I've never had to have an abortion, but I have had one serious pregnancy scare when I was in college, and I would definitely have had one then. And my parents and family would have supported me either way.

Scola,

I actually cannot wait for the series of books about this 2012 campaign. There seems to be more meat here than for the 2008 campaign.

Did you all read the Slate article by John Dickerson (who I have to say had been drinking the GOP kool-aid because his reporting this year has been a little off). Anyway, this statement

One Romney aide also included the much-debated changes to welfare requirements as a policy aimed to win over African-American voters.

You might recall how the Romney campaigned constantly about Obama changing the welfare work requirements, a claim that has been roundly refuted and described as mendacious, well I just assumed it was the campaign's cynical perspective of turning White voters against Obama. But apparently some on staff really do hold racist beliefs behind closed doors. Unbelievable. They drink their own kool-aid.

But apparently some on staff really do hold racist beliefs behind closed doors. Unbelievable. They drink their own kool-aid.

In NO way do I believe all Republicans are racist or sexist, or bad people. But Le Nub, I have never, ever thought that some Romney/Ryan staffers were not deeply racist, whether it was overt or deeply closeted even to themselves.

Note: And I'm sure this is true for members of ANY political party.