That's better than nothing.

But a normal human being with normal levels of empathy would have come to that conclusion years ago, based on being a decent person who instinctively knows right from wrong and wants innocent people to stop hurting. If this guy needs to be convinced to do the obvious right thing, that says a lot about the kind of man he is.

But hey, at least he can listen and change his mind. That's more than can be said of all the other GOP psychopaths.

I didn't think this was even possible. Been writing my reps basically every month for years now. They never respond even.

I think Smith recognizes that he dodged a bullet in this primary. He would have had a challenging time battling it out with a more left-leaning candidate in the general election if the left got its shit together.

But it didn't, and we ended up with a clown town slap fight between Melissa Chaudhry and Kshama Sawant, neither of which had the juice to win in WA-9 (which includes the ID and all parts southeast Seattle, the south half of Bellevue, and all of Renton, Kent, Auburn and Federal Way -- not exactly lefty strongholds).

I know what I'm doing this weekend