I read it as, “My own father failed to present a positive masculine role model, so I’ve banded together with other man-children in this fraternity. Please save me from them and myself. I would love to call you ‘Daddy,’ given that your daughter appears to be very put together and to need less attention now that she’s…

I’m not sure “same physical standards” really makes sense unless the physical standards truly reflect what you need to be functional for combat. E.g., the pull-up requirement is really tough for taller women soldiers, but you’re only doing pull-ups to show you can climb out of ditches, up walls, etc. The taller women…

I didn’t know who she was; but I just googled, went to the blog, and saw the picture of the “peach chia seed smoothie.” It looks SO much like diarrhea! Anything title other than, “Try this peach chia smoothie even though it looks like diarrhea” for the blog piece strikes me as a deep form of denial.

I know you’re reversing the Amy Schumer thing, but my wife seriously said after the movie, “What did she see in that guy? He’s fine good looking but too boring. She would never date a guy that boring in real life.”

Yeah. I’m married, and this happens all the time. We’re naked, and it’s cold or there’s a noise or whatever and my wife is like, “Eh. Nope. Not feeling it.” We then stop having sex. I don’t get the whole “I still have a boner” thing. Nothing kills a boner like “I’m not into sex with you right now.” No boner left after…

There really is something quite Jungian about it. A bit of the Manticore?

Yeah. I think it’s the same set of guys who rated pictures of women whose faces had been altered to appear drunk/ otherwise mentally impaired as more attractive than the unaltered photos. If I remember the study correctly, those guys scored low on questionaires measuring empathy. It’s a relatively small percentage of…

Wait. There are vitamins that make you poop regularly? Please tell me they work! I’m pretty regular, but I’m always looking to “up my game.”

Thank God! I HATE her in everything. Sex, Lies, and Videotape is another one where the rest of the movie has to work hard to make up for her terribleness.

Also so you can hear the accent in your head. I used to work with a Nigerian database engineer, and this taxonomy of women coming out of his mouth would have sounded HILARIOUS (though unlikely given that his wife is a doctor, and he was generally considered a mensch in terms of working with and promoting women).

Nice. Though I will admit that I’d watch Kim Cattrall playing Peggy Noonan.

I have a feeling that this got pitched as “Gail Collins and Lily Tomlin,” (which is a show I would watch all f-ing day) and got MASSIVELY downgraded. Dowd and Cummings was the last stop before Douthat and Carrot Top or Friedman and Gallagher.

I also heard third hand that Motumbo would walk around his dorm (at Georgetown?) in a towel pointing with both fingers to his pens saying, “who’s going to sex Dikembe tonight?”

Oh my God. The trial happened when I was in high school (all boys Catholic school), and we started talking about it in English class. All these dudes came out like, “she’s totally lying.” I was amazed that people could see it so differently because I was like, “That lady is brave as hell for coming forward and DOES…

“It feels better that the nipple is not in Biden’s mouth.” works for so many contexts.

I think there is also a market for this post marriage as I heard a ton of dudes say to me, "According to my wife, I'm supposed to be more like you." when my kids were babies. The voice was "Fuck you for ruining it for the rest of us" if that wasn't already obvious.

My kids will be super psyched for this. They've read all the silver age Super Girl comics. Will Krypto and her cat also be in the show?

In fairness to the "do you want me to call the police?" lady, kids get stranger danger warnings and are told that police are exceptions to "don't talk to strangers." She likely was bringing it up as, "I can find you someone you're comfortable dealing with." Admittedly it's not as deft as "are you good?" but I can see…

If you do, don't just get an up-front fee, get a slice of the royalties if the book sells past a certain number. I temped in the office of a celebrity book agent, and Susan Powter's ("Stop the Insanity") ghost writer would call once a month threatening to sue if she didn't get royalty money, but her contract was pure…

I kept my last name, but our two kids have my wife's. We're Jewish, and my last name is super goyish (convert), but my wife's is strongly identifiable. I couldn't take her last name because there are no Jews of my generation who go by my first name. It would have made people reading it think I was 40 years older than…