I'm a graduate of a Jesuit high school, and I feel like the special combination of sanctimony, paternalism, and rape culture would be familiar to all of my fellow graduates. All of the allegations against him are undoubtedly true, and I would add that hard denials in the face of overwhelming evidence was also…

I think it's just a sign of how sloppy they are. The Senate can't withdraw him. Only Trump can (or Kavanaugh can withdraw himself). Trump doesn't want to look weak, and Kavanaugh is out of touch enough to think he can still get on the court. My guess is they get him to withdraw this week, but that kind of persuasion…

My mom clerked for a Federal Judge, and I would say that the head games he played were pretty brutal. She’d grown up in a rural area with parents who didn’t go to college and went to law school after about 10 years of teaching. Anyway, she ended up with a top 10 class rank at law school by working really hard and…

It feels like the already successful men are just kind of incapable of learning to not be shitty? Maybe just clear them all out and let other people have a shot? I mean, don’t kill them, but maybe just don’t give them high level positions or new projects?

My wife’s assistant made a sign with an oil derrick to put on the office door for when my wife was pumping. It was in Dallas, so people loved it.

It’s also useful in that other women he may have raped or assaulted might feel more willing to come forward now that they know they’re not alone. Other piece could be what his parents did to cover anything up. Generally the sons of prosecutors/ judges get a lot of benefit of the doubt.

I always go back to a story in the Times from when I was in college. This guy who’d been the son-in-law of a mobster and gotten into the family business turned himself in and ratted the whole organization out to the FBI. His perspective was there was no way they weren’t all getting caught because of how blatant and…

My wife also referenced the family separation policy in her Rosh Hashanah sermon. I’m guessing it was pretty widespread. When I used to teach Hebrew school, I always worried one of the kids would turn into a Bernie Madoff. Can’t imagine what that synagogue staff must think. 

Who the heck bought the ticket, so this kid could fly there? He must have been a next level manipulator to get all of these adults and friends to play along. I mean, if my friend were like, “I need you to pretend to go putt-putt, so I can ambush date this girl,” I’m pretty sure even in middle school, I’d have been…

How do we not have a day off in her honor and her face on our currency?

It was a hilariously off-base tactic. If she’d gone with, “Confidentially, your wife feels humiliated every time you leave the house looking like that. Buy some decent looking clothes.” I would have gone ahead and just handed her my credit card.

So I find their men’s clothes to be boring and not that flattering. Also, the one time I went in to try stuff on, the young saleswoman stroked my arm and said, “I love flannel. You should try our new flannel shirts.” I don’t like when strangers touch me. 

I feel like the anti-IDC vote is pretty fired up. I’m not sure that low turnout will hurt us (not that I’m advocating for lowering turnout). The better GOTV organizations (unions) are also on board with anti-IDC. What is your read on the anti-IDC races? I think Ramos will win. I just bought a house in her district,…

Ah. Comey said at some point that he knew Sessions would recuse because of information he couldn't comment on. I presume it has to do with how he actually followed up on Papadapoulos' offer of Russian help vs how he characterized it in testimony, but if he hadn't recused, I think whatever he done did would have come…

So interesting. I read it much more that Elena ends up the least deformed by her experiences (than almost any character really, not just Lila) through small bouts of luck. Not just her family being a little more open, but she was by nature a bit more conformist. She ran into romantic shits at points in her life when…

That’s interesting. I think the thing that sticks with me the most is the weight of basically punishment Lila receives for being extraordinary but being born a lower social class woman.

Oh definitely. We read them more or less as they came out, so there was a big gap between “New Name” and the next one. During that period, my wife was like, “I think things will work out with Nino,” and I was like, “He’s a lying shit. He’s never leaving his wife.” It wasn’t a fight, but it was a tense conversation…

That is completely persuasive to me.

OMG, fuck Cuomo! Cy Vance is looking so, so dirty with Weinstein, the Trump kids, etc. It’s classic Cuomo to freeze it for a few years before he kills it completely.

I feel a little uncomfortable with this as legislation. Isn’t why we have medical ethics and licensing boards? I can see if you have a case where, like with reparative therapy, the practice persists in the face of widespread professional condemnation that legislatures need to step in. In this case it feels premature…