I still think about that novel. So brutal.

“And maybe she feels really guilty for endorsing Jill Stein.”

Platforms are the past. You know who had platforms? People who ran for President before. He’s looking to the future, man.

I loved that this part of the story came right after he basically said, "It was my wife. I don't handle the finances."

The beer deliveries to the Jesuit residence were legendary in my high school. We’d watch in math class as the distributor’s delivery guy rolled several dollies full of European beers too fancy for us to even know about every week. It was only 12 guys, but I think they had people over a lot.

Doesn't As I Lay Dying begin with Cash explaining the complexity of building a coffin right because animal magnetism pulls the sides in. It's the coffin equivalent of mounding soil on a grave because his theory was that the body sucks the soil down over time and would similarly cave in the coffin sides if not properly…

This is also more equitable. It’s work to advocate for yourself. It’s work to persuade. Simultaneously doimg more caring work and doing more equality work is a turd sandwich.

I was in a cafe once, and a woman and her kids ran into an old acquaintance who asked, "How is your husband?" Answer: "We're divorced. We always fought about his not spending enough time with the kids. Now he spends Mondays and Tuesdays and every other weekend with them. We don't fight anymore."

I’m not convinced he has overwhelming party establishment support. My sense is that Booker, Klobuchar, and Harris are all competitive with him in that arena. His endorsements are with the more conservative wing of the progressive old guard, moderates, and conservatives. He's got the conservative lane to himself…

Prisons are often located in white rural areas where they boost the census population and their voting power, taking it away from the communities of color overrepresented in prison. Also, if our ultimate goal is to reintegrate folks, we would want to have them have a greater stake in society? I’m for forcing prisoners…

On the one hand, I don’t think this is the test case for candidates that did something that used to be considered fine but is now out of bounds. I mean, how out of touch do you have to be to think that approaching people from behind and touching them is appropriate? The fact that as Vice President, no one felt…

We hiked in Harriman state park outside of NYC on Saturday and ended up hauling someone else's baggy of dog shit back to Queens with us because they'd left it trail side. It was gross. I guess I'm glad they bagged it though? I mean, it's likely leaving it by the side of the trail was inadvertent since they'd gone to…

20 years ago, I temped for a celebrity “literary agent” who repped Williamson for books and speaking. He was super scummy and a raging misogynist. He had a button on his phone that could mute him, and he would “entertain” the office by calling his celebrity female clients the c-word. I only worked there a month, but…

Can he flame out sooner rather than later? I’m afraid he’ll suck up oxygen that my preferred candidates (Warren and Harris) could be using, and we’ll end up with fucking Sanders.

If “doesn’t know pop culture references” is reason 7,861 why DeBlasio shouldn’t run for POTUS, and that’s the one that makes him realize that he shouldn’t do it, I’m all for calling him out.

In fairness, the Megyn Kelly thing was as much about depriving Fox of her as it was about getting her themselves. She likely could have taken Bill O'Reilly's spot and done less damage than Tucker Carlson has, so it may be that MSNBC has gotten $69 million in value from that deal by having weaker competition.

Yeah. I would add that no one tells the abusive boss the truth. When you add “most powerful person in the world” to it, s/he will NEVER hear the truth. It’s important for the President to be able to create space to hear shit they don’t want to hear. LBJ was an abusive shit to subordinates, and no one was telling him…

Somewhere there’s a Sumatran tiger wearing a fedora typing on Reddit about how all the hot female tigers just like asshole male tigers and aren’t interested in nice guy tigers who really know how to treat a lady.

There’s maybe a bit more to the geography of his answer than what he said explicitly. I also grew up in a very white well-off section of a midwestern metro area, and I also went to Jesuit high school. There are definitely guys I went to school with who would have worn black face, but they were guys I didn’t hang out…

I’ve got a kid who feels pain intensely and a kid who feels it less intensely, and their anxiety levels during the pain increase whatever they’re feeling. Feeling pain intensely or not feeling it intensely doesn’t make you a better or worse person. Being anxious about pain or not anxious about pain doesn’t make you…