I confess I absolutely cannot wrap my head around the Smollett case. Like....WHY?? It’s just so astoundingly stupid if this is all true. Like, no rational cost/benefit analysis would make this even remotely feasible. Gamble your career and reputation on what, a pay raise? To be fair, I absolutely don’t get the…

Thank you for writing this - it was so lovingly written it made me cry. We have a 9 month old, and your descriptions of the slow process of becoming a parent over the course of a pregnancy were so evocative. Close friends of ours recently lost a baby to stillbirth at 30 weeks, and watching them as they moved through…

Thank you for sharing this. It’s not often that stories can fundamentally change the way I feel about a subject, but this one did. I am so grateful my wife and I did not have to go through such an experience, and am truly sorry that you had to.

Agreed. The “free Melania” meme is long dead. She’s as complicit as anyone else.

Exactly.  And people keep forgetting what she did when Julia Ioffe was being harassed by right wing trolls after writing a story on Melania’s family. Which was not to condemn the harassment but blame Julia Ioffe. She’s just as bad as he is which is why she’s the longest lasting of his wives. 

Ashley, I’m so sorry you’ve drawn this beat.

The balance really isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be. The great accomplishments of someone like this guy who I had never heard of until he croaked aren’t going anywhere. We can still recognize them while also condemning his misogyny and racism. For example, Henry Ford made the car an item for the masses…

You posted that as a response to the author, making it seem like Julianne wrote it, but I think you meant to post it to fayke-dunaway, the commenter who actually wrote the comment (meaning they may not see what you wrote). Regardless, I agree with your sentiment - it’s painfully difficult for anyone who is at the…

Men posting photos of dead animals — whatever animal is trophy hunted where they live —on their dating profiles really sounds like a national problem that needs to go away.

Kids, kitties - you do it all like it's no big thing. You rock!

I could absolutely eat the reds in this photo - fantastic! LOVE Mamiyas - I have four film Mamiya cameras.

HI Emily! Hi! Maybe you can tell me why my old account TampaBeeAtch got banned?

I took the train to Secaucus Junction and walked from there down to Howell Street in Jersey City in time for the sunset:

All the love and luck to you my friend! I hope you’re able to make it work! I think with the life events it’s worth going for. After my Mom died unexpectedly a few months ago it really had a profound effect on the way my Dad in particular approached things. He had always been very, very frugal, and always encouraged…

On behalf of the rest of the world thank you for the treasure that is Catherine O’Hara. :) 

Virginia Senator Tim Kaine would like you to know he has never worn blackface, thank you very much!

Agreed. It was delightful. I particularly loved the run she did gearing up for each wall.

As a Gen-X punk/goth type who is only a couple of years younger, ten of us in a loft that size would have been absolutely normal. I shared a small two-bedroom condo with 9-12 other people in the mid-90's. It’s almost definitely not bullshit.

I’d vote for Klobuchar in a hot second. I know she’s not “exciting”, but that’s exactly what I love about her—she’s the anti-Trump, a hard worker and common-sense believer in the virtues of public service who doesn’t make any promises she can’t keep. She’s the absolute best, and the only downside to her being…

I already aired my fears she was basically done after the whole “private apology” saga but I really think someone now needs to take Warren aside and tell her to drop the plans to run in 2020, as there’s no way she’ll get out from under this ever now and will just expose herself and her family to more prying for no…