Thanks for this great piece, and I just read your piece about running the marathon too. We’re exactly the same height and weight and while I’m fairly athletic, I always thought running was an impossibility for me. It’s really affirming for me to see your picture and realize that I probably look more like you than like…

If you want to remember how to fear, just read this 1946 New Yorker article. It’s a long read, but worth every second.

Yeah, that was my first thought too. Meghan’s written things about her parents that make it sound like she has a loving relationship with them, so I’m not sure quite what he meant? Having divorced parents doesn’t mean one doesn’t have a family.

There are bike racks everywhere in DC, and I’m sure most dockless bike riders leave them on or near a bike rack. But the minority who leave them wherever they want (i’ve seen them in the middle of the sidewalk, in the street, on a metro platform, on people’s lawns, on the grass at a park, in a fountain, and so on)…

Also a seatbelt that doesn’t strangle me. Although men under 5'4" or so probably have the same request!

Thanks! Will check out the links. I was being too lazy to google, sorry about that.

I don’t have an opinion on this because I’m totally uninformed (I can’t tolerate even mildly scary movies) but if you don’t mind answering questions, since you apparently know about movie awards, do you know what category horror movies are usually nominated in? And is the comedy category somehow considered lesser than…

I live in DC and while I can’t say from direct experience, I have definitely heard that finding thin pretexts to deny black men entry is a management-encouraged policy, not a bad bouncer or two.

If ‘taxpayer funded contraception’ was a thing that existed (because the contraceptive mandate means insurers have to provide you with contraception that you—not “taxpayers”—pay for with your premiums), wouldn’t you especially want to give it to people who have had an abortion, so they wouldn’t get pregnant again and…

I’ve met Judge Kozinski several times and it wasn’t just staffers he harassed. But these stories are 100% true, and it’s been well known in legal communities for years - he’s just entirely shameless about it, and has never faced the possibility of sanctions other than his own shame.

Made with malted milk powder instead of regular milk. Maybe this is a midwestern thing? I grew up in the 80s/90s and it’s definitely something I had, although I can’t say that I’ve had one or even thought about one for the last 20 years or so.

*googles power washing videos *

I went down a rabbit hole on this because I was so surprised by it. To recap, I learned the overwhelming majority of pumpkin sold in the US is Libby’s brand, which is made from Dickinson pumpkins, a variety of pumpkin that is less orange and spherical than Halloween pumpkins but is definitely not a butternut squash.…

We’re having salmon. Nice patriotic American fish, tastes good with sweet potatoes, cranberries, mashed potatoes, and all the other usual Thanksgiving sides. I’m delighted that I talked/bullied everyone into it.

Ooh, do I get to make the first pissing on a bed joke? Yes?

Yeah it’s fine on my iPhone 6 too. It sounds like it’s more buggy with newer devices, not older ones, which is weird.

I think - and I am not a doctor, just an ordinary queer with many trans friends - that the ‘medically necessary’ part comes primarily from a mental/emotional health perspective. Gender dysphoria is extremely harmful to many people’s mental and emotional health, and gender-affirming surgery is the necessary treatment…

Danica Roem’s district is Manassas Park City and part of Prince William County, in the DC exurbs. Mechanicsville is about 100 miles south of there.

The number of shootings in the area????

I appreciate that Althea Garrison is the first known trans person to hold a state legislative office (we don’t know if she’s actually the first trans person; she’s the first one to be outed), but does she even self-identify as trans? I’m kind of uncomfortable with this whole media story about her. It seems like the…