Poor Tiffany. The Rodney Dangerfield of presidential daughters.

When my kid was around 2, I was driving with him on the interstate going to visit my mom. It was dark, and raining, and we were surrounded by semis, and because of construction the road was down to one lane with no shoulder. With about five miles to go I heard a “click” and a little laugh, and he had somehow unbuckled…

There’s a great quote from a Tony Campolo sermon: “While you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or malnutrition. And most of you don’t give a shit. And you’re more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.”

Or any underaged children of anybody, for that matter.

I’ve been wondering what all this will mean to the people who paid a kajillion dollars for their apartments in Trump Tower. What if they have a legal gun in their home? Will they have to give it up? If they invite people up for drinks, will they all have to be screened?

I think he has to fly on AF1 because it has secure communications and a military crew and stuff.

I live in a tiny blue corner of a dark red state - it’s in a part of the country I grew up in so it feels like home, but sometimes it also feels like missionary work.

I was one such too. I’d honestly given up. Now I feel like the old rocking horse in The Velveteen Rabbit.

Last night I read a post on there from a woman telling for the first time about the pre-Roe v. Wade illegal abortion she got when she was 16, one of those pieces of writing that feels like a gift.

My mantra is this: We still have a good shot to take the Senate back. And all this press about a tightening race will help Dem turnout, which will help with the Senate races.

Adorable! Your fawn-and-cream could be related to my sweet, demented guy.

When I want to feel empathy toward regular not-crazy rank-and-file Republicans, I think about how I would vote if Kanye was running as a Democrat and the Rs were running Paul Ryan or somebody. I mean, honestly, what would you do?
(Which is not to suggest that Kanye shares Trump’s nationalist/racist/misogynist…

There was a thing in I think the Washington Post specifically about his claim that he was going to roll back environmental regulation immediately after taking office, and the reality that every regulatory change has to go through a grueling process of impact studies, committee approvals, agency reviews, and public…

Good Lord - I hadn’t heard that. Now that I’m at peace that Trump’s not going to be elected, I’m really worrying about what his whipped-up supporters are going to unleash after the election.

More than the usual, even. I was reading an article the other day by a journalist who’s been backgrounding Trump (not Farenthold - maybe Eichenwald at Newsweek? - telling how he and his family had gotten death threats from Trump supporters. So here’s hoping they all have good hiding places and unlisted numbers and…

Please leave candy corn out of this. Candy corn has done no wrong.

And these are the same people who consider a single mom receiving a $300 AFDC check a freeloader.

AP allows them to be used interchangeably now. We live in dark times.

D’oh! Make that a list of THREE things.

Vinegar-based BBQ sauce and Doc Watson are North Carolina’s most priceless gifts to the world. Saluting from East Tennessee.