I’m kind of torn on this one. Should we be teaching our kids to “Be good at, and committed to, your job no longer how morally reprehensible”? I know that my younger one has tendencies toward “slacker” (Like me!) Also, he has maybe not the greatest moral compass (Like me!). I feel like my example is probably optimal in…

The clients at the West Hollywood Barry’s were pure beautiful. The instructors were borderline freakish. Barry taught a class, and I swear his arms are the same diameter as my legs. I hadn’t realized there were a couple of Barry’s in Boston now. I’ll need to go next time I’m visiting family there. I’ve been doing Pure…

Barry’s Bootcamp has a piece that’s a HIIT session on treadmills. It’s the only time I’ve been on a treadmill where I didn’t want to die of boredom. I don’t think I’d like it without also having the weight lifting part, but I can see the appeal of having a charismatic person yell at you to run as a group. Also, the…

So I temped for a while in the late 90s for her book agent (also handled her speaking fees). If we want to go ahead and nominate a huckster to run against a huckster, she’s the ticket. And this is coming from someone who genuinely believes that aspects of Trump’s rise have been fueled by destructive habits of mind…

Honestly though, do you even really want his help anymore? There are things in our labor divide that I just don’t want my wife to try and do anymore (cooking, grocery shopping, loading the dishwasher, certain school/teacher related interactions) unless I’m 100% isolated from the process/consequences because I don’t…

It reminds me of the use of “front bottom” in the musical Matilda.

That’s what I was talking about with my son’s friend. The kid just voices emotions very differently and probably in a more gender normative way than my son does. He’s a healthy kid with a great sense of humor and good boundaries and everything, and he has struggles with gender expectations not related to emotional…

I think there are two different tracks where masculinity scripts aren’t working well. First, there’s stuff that is terrible for all men, e.g., “Don’t go to the doctor when there’s obviously something fucking wrong.” My wife and I were talking this morning about a husband of a friend who ignored serious pain for like…

While Ryan never deserved the “serious person” descriptions, a bunch of Bernie’s proposals also didn’t add up (e.g., the guy who did the numbers for infrastructure assumed that a one time increase in government spending would increase GDP growth not just in the year of the increase but every year subsequently without…

I came here to post this.

Which is weird because he’s fucking grotesque. I would have thought he would be more inclined to brag about having people like Wilbur Ross and DeVos in the room: Old, rich grifters and weird-looking folks who inherited their wealth.

Yeah. I think there’s a reason that the largest left-leaning state hasn’t gotten anyone to successfully run as a Democratic nominee for President, and I think a piece of it is that the statewide consensus on criminal justice is fucking toxic. Throw folks in jail forever for non-violent offenses, celebrate the death…

I feel like McCaskill has one incredibly valid point: “Getting shit done is hard, and people get disillusioned when nothing changes.” and one super not valid point: “You attract white working class votes by having moderate policies.” Obama -> Trump voters are definitely a thing. They voted for Obama (many of them…

Eighth Grade was my favorite movie this year, but I’m pretty sure Love, Simon was instrumental in my 11-year-old’s coming out, so the soft-sell on “not too gay seeming” actually was permission giving for a certain kind of kid viewer.

She reminded me of the character Jennifer Coolidge plays in “A Might Wind.” “Thank God for the model trains, you know? If they didn’t have the model trains they wouldn’t have gotten the idea for the big trains.” She described developing the character as combining how a deaf person speaks with a Wisconsin accent. 

I have never made eggs in my instant pot. I make hard boiled eggs 2-3 times a month. I use my instant pot a couple of times a week. I do not understand instant pot = eggs? Also, I only like my soy milk without sweetener. There is no arguing taste and smell.

I read Middlemarch when I was in a part of my life where I could full-on disappear for several days, and nothing bad would happen, so I did. I know it probably wasn’t what she was reading, but even on the off chance that it was, he should probably just be killed. Better safe than sorry.

From what I’ve read of the accounts is that Arafat’s response was more complicated than either of us presented. He rejected a bunch of offers, getting a better deal each time, but he ran out of time when Barak and Gore lost. I honestly don’t think Barak was negotiating in bad faith, or in no worse faith that Arafat…

Arafat shot it down in 2000. The other deals haven’t been particularly close (but same framework). Abbas probably can’t say yes to that deal. Doesn't deal with the huge multigenerational refugee populations in Lebanon, West Bank, and Jordan. I'm not saying that Israel hasn't been poisoning the peace process, but…

That’s effing hilarious!