I think the Quinn and Gillibrand takes so soon after the announcement are direct results of Cuomo’s prodding. If she could have waited without its becoming awkward, I’m sure she would have. Cuomo is reasonably vindictive and won’t be put off. I’ve got a friend who was a democratic state delegate pledged to Carl…

Also important to put a picture of Nancy Pelosi up front. ‘Cause she’s the problem. She’s too conservative, too controlling, too much of a San Francisco liberal, and doesn’t have enough control of her caucus. I can’t quite remember the last time a politician was put in the position of simultaneously being a…

He looks kind of bloated. I didn’t even think male celebrities could get away with that kind of body anymore. He’s looking like Adam West era Batman in those photos.

Lock ‘em up!

I feel like “Netflix for racists” is a niche that someone with an MBA is furiously pitching right now.

Prudence said that she really couldn’t hang on to the nanny.

I feel really torn about this. I really want someone to replace Cuomo who has embraced amoral expediency as a virtue. I like Cynthia Nixon’s policy instincts, but I was kind of hoping that Hillary Clinton would run and be such a big figure that she could clean Albany and state government up and set the state on a new…

When my kids were babies, the synagogue’s cleaning person once washed my potluck dish, and I almost weapt with gratitude. There’s a dear Prudence advice question where a working mom asks if she can keep the nanny who just slept with her husband. It went something like, “I’ve kicked out my husband. The nanny realizes…

I was heading down Eastern Pkwy today, and a guy walked straight into traffic at Utica. Car stopped and honeed at him. The walker who likes to live dangerously punched the driver side window pretty hard. You could tell from the way the car drove away that s/he was shaken.

I love barre so much. I wish my neighborhood had a studio. I went to a Pure Barre in Newton, MA once though that was f-ing trifling. My ass didn’t hurt at all afterward.

True story, I met Ron Palillo, TV’s Horshack, at a staged reading in 1999. He managed to overpronounce his name in a way that afterwards, people were like, “He said his name like we should know who he is.” And somebody said, “He’s Horshack.” It remains my #1 favorite celebrity in person viewing, and I saw Joey Ramone…

There’s a particular glint in the eye they get. My wife is a rabbi and has had all kinds of gross stuff said to her by creepy old guys, “I’ve never kissed a rabbi before.” “I never knew a rabbi could be so beautiful.” Every straight female rabbi I know has had some version of it. Do the creeps go out of their way to…

I liked this movie, but I also really liked Frances Ha, so maybe Gerwig is just my jam. Anyway, was there a Slouching Toward Bethlehem thing in this movie with Sacramento and NY, or was it just that I read the book a few weeks before I saw the movie?

I think you’ve got your elevator pitch for your new consulting gig at McKinsey, Deloitte, or Accenture.

Yeah. He sounds a lot like my daughter’s math teacher who is an f-ing delightful dork who would open up his veins if he thought it would help his students. Slightly forced and over compensating won’t make you automatically hated. You also have to be an actual dick.

I’m glad she just killed it at 55 seconds instead of feeling the need to pad it.

When I lived in rural Connecticut, I saw a red-tailed hawk perched on top of my neighbor’s bird feeder. I imagine her bird feeder to be something similar. “We have this delightful bird feeder in the back that lures the little song birds for my falcon to kill. My bird feeder is also a bird feeder! Hahaha!”

Why not both?

Mueller and Rosenstein are both bound by Office of Legal Counsel rulings, so I don’t think they can indict (OLC ruled that the President can’t be indicted when Nixon was in office, not because the Constitution prohibits it with impeachment but because indictment would interfere with being President). I guess if…

I’m not sure how Mueller gets a venue to put the tape out there without the House taking up impeachment in the first place. I guess he turns his grand jury stuff over to the House? What we saw in Watergate was a complete willingness by Republicans to cover up the tapes. They were all on board to have a nearly deaf…