Nope, California doesn't vote until June. JUNE! Ugh.....

Next is Indiana.

Well, we're currently getting a preview of the general as Trump and Clinton both try to focus on each other as opposed to their primary opponents.

As you might expect, Trump's chosen the most sexist possible line of attack against Clinton, saying things like she wouldn't be winning if she wasn't a woman, and that he can't stand her shouting--another common dog whistle that implies that a women who raises her voice is too emotional to function, which is completely absurd.

There are so many legitimate criticisms of Clinton. I cannot stand when people just attack her for being a powerful woman. But I know it's only going to get worse...Trump has demonstrated so many times that he is intimidated by powerful women and being intimidated makes him vicious. He doesn't seem to view women as actual people, so this whole "women's card" scuffle is probably going to end up being a high point...

I really hope that having a California primary that actually matters will force even the GOP candidates to talk about climate change, given how severe the drought and wild fires have been in that region. It's hard to get people who benefit from the status quo in regards to energy and environmental policy to actually address climate change, especially since like most scientific matters the reality doesn't match the Hollywood image of doom and gloom and therefore its hard for some people to take it seriously, but its an issue of paramount importance. Even having a public debate between the deniers and the vast majority of the world would be beneficial.

And another thought about the current Clinton-Trump brawl, it really shows how destructive sexism and misogyny is to a society, when people are so blinded by their bigotry they can't even recognize legitimate problems because they're too worked up over someone's gender.

My feelings on the draft issue are this:

I do not support the draft. I do not support it now, I do not support it in the past and I will never support it in the future. A draft has one purpose and one purpose only--to create bodies for the slaughter, to overwhelm the enemy through sheer force of numbers.
People say, do you really want to send your daughter to the front line? Of course not. And if I had a son, I would not want to send him either. If the draft is so horrible that we need to protect our girls from it, then why the fuck aren't we protecting our boys?

Either the draft is wrong for EVERYONE, or it is acceptable in which case women don't get to shirk their responsibilities to their country.

Again, I think the draft is wrong and that no one should ever be required to sign up for military service unless they really believe in it, but if it does exist then let it be fair, at the very least.

The part of this story that boggles my mind is the fact that the bill was introduced by a Republican who thought no one would ever vote for it. He designed it as a poison pill, expecting his fellow committee members to vote against requiring women to sign up for the draft. The very idea was, to him, so ludicrous that he thought he could expose the hypocrisy of his fellow committee members--as in, oh, you believe in gender equality? But you don't think women should be drafted? Hypocrite!--but in the end it was his misogyny that was exposed.

I mean, how dumb can you be? Does he not understand what gender equality means?