Fun fact, my dad picked up The Turtles (“So Happy Together” band) from the airport in college. I couldn’t hate the trailer because of my intense personal connection to the song.

Gorilla channel is the best satirical WH take I’ve read. Everything in this administration is so insane and awful that it’s really tough to do satire that’s funny and not immediately overrun by reality. The thing where he talks to the gorillas in the set“Good. You hit him good.” is so easy to picture. 

Yeah. I find I get more mileage out of the minor ones, like meeting Tubbs from Miami Vice and Horshack from Welcome Back Cotter. For the story to work, you either need to see someone Beatle-level famous or a c-lister.

I would have missed him? The thing where he threw his wife under the bus for the spending and then it turned out he was using campaign funds to pay for affairs... I mean, that's AMAZING.

Can I “actually” that? A recent poll showed that younger folks were better able to identify factual information than older. The older people were more confident in their incorrect choices but incorrect nonetheless. It had less to do with age than getting news from television, but age isn’t actually a great predictor…

My parents just moved to this district. Effing scanners were broken (a problem around the city yesterday), and there was an hour-long line to feed ballots into the remaining machines. NY needs to modernize its voting. We need early voting. Also, which coffee shop is she talking about? My younger kid’s school is in…

We should also be terrified that with a 7-9% vote margin, Democrats in the House did slightly worse than Republicans in the House did in 2016 with a 1.1% win margin. It’s not as extreme as the Senate where soon a super majority of US citizens are represented by 1/3 of the Senators, but we’re at a point where every…

I watched it with my teenagers a few nights ago. The younger one just came out, and both were really into Chalamet and thought Hammer was too gross to be a plausible love interest.

This reminds me of hanging out at my now in-laws place around that era, and Britney was singing on SNL. My f-i-l kept on remarking on how beautiful she was, to the point where the other three of us were getting uncomfortable. 

So we went through this in our Jewish community regarding a Jewish composer (and rabbi) who sexually assaulted women and girls. He’s dead, but many of his victims are still around. Part of the discussion was that we can’t act like some peoples’ contributions are so important that we excuse their behavior. Our removing…

I’m sorry but Hilary Clinton beats the pants off of James Cox. It took the convention 44 ballots to get to him. So maybe amend your statement to least desirable candidate in 96 years?

My daughter and I were at a diner yesterday and two women in their mid-70s were eating next to us. One says to the other, "Today's my day without my husband, so I can get things done without his looking over my shoulder." We were like "she's definitely thought about poisoning him. He probably should look over her…

And I would be shocked if he hadn't groped someone. He just strikes me as handsy and full of sexist b.s.

My 13-year-old and I were discussing this in the car the other day. How many kindergartners could you take on at once? I was advocating for essentially infinite because they’re bad at coordinating, so I’m not sure they’d be up to swarming you until suffocation. She felt like eventually you’d select out enough cold…

I think it’s right to be equally anxious and hopeful. There’s a lot of uncertainty. A relatively modest shift in the polls away from Democrats could change the House from lean Democrat to a coin flip. That same change in the national environment would push Florida, Missouri, Nevada, Arizona, and Indiana over to…

And I know someone who McConaughey groped (at a UT party he attended), so it’s not like he never did anything. You really have to be pretty terrible to have someone report because it’s not worth the effing blow back.

This is why the climate is so scary for men. You can have five women come out of nowhere and accuse you of stuff you did, and maybe because of the whims of the news cycle, people take it seriously for a little bit, and you have to lower your profile for a while before your fellow mediocrities welcome you back into the…

“[W]hile here in America we’re still dragging our feet on the HPV vaccine in case it makes teens horny, or whatever.” Totally LOLed.

I broke up a fight on the subway once. It was crowded, and the guys started yelling at each other. When one of them swung, everyone started moving, and I was like, “People are amazing! They’re all moving to get between the guys, so they can’t fight. I will join this benevolent stampede.” Turned out they were all…

Had to take a noon MMA class because I was feeling so murdery. That was after the 8:30 a.m. boxing class. It’s possible that I’ll need to do kickboxing this evening. Anger isn’t usually motivating, but I have so many fucking feelings.