Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx were covered by section 5 of the voting rights act before the Supreme Court threw it out. Disenfranchisment was focused on Puerto Ricans instead of African Americans. There are definitely neighborhoods that went harder for Trump than went for Romney. E.g., all of Staten Island,…

This! WTF? Who was more “electable” than Mondale and Hubert Humphrey? I get that McGovern was to the left of the median Democrat and lost in a landslide, but I also feel like there’s been a lot of overlearning from that example vs. all the “next in lines” who have failed to win elections by both big and small margins.…

My kids were saying that celebrities can’t go out in public, and I was like, “I’ve seen plenty of celebrities, and no one bothers them.” They were like, “Which ones?” I said, “I saw Ron Pallilo (TV’s Horschack), Tom Brokaw, Phillip Michael Thomas (TV’s Tubbs), Christopher Noth (TV’s Mr. Big), and a Ramone (going in to…

Part of me feels bad that Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour got the boot when cis-gendered, straight white men seem to get endless do-overs; but I also feel like we could all learn a lesson from the idea that no leadership is indispensable. The current group of leaders looks strong, and I’m looking forward to seeing…

Judge says she poses no further danger, but my bet is that with this slap on the wrist, she's going to have more kids just to fraudulently get them into college.

I was not expecting this. I hated her so much growing up that it's never occured to me to watch her anything new. 

The eight year wait strikes me as extremely plausible. We heard a rumor about a neighbor’s marriage falling apart at a birthday party (maybe my son’s 3rd or 4th). It didn’t actually happen until 4 or 5 years later, and that was a case with a long-term affair/secret family. When you’re 23 years in, I’d imagine that…

At the theater when we watched it, people we talked to were like, “It’s like a smart Breakfast Club.” Are the people for whom Superbad was a formative teen movie able to go to the movies? I was thinking they were all home with babies. The crowd at our theater was solidly GenX, and there was a lot of, “I’d like my…

We were talking about this at dinner, and my kids and I were team, “Twitter is all about dragging people in childish ways.” My wife was team, “Eh. Don’t compare people to bugs. It puts you in bad company.” I’m not sure whether my wife persuaded me or not. Like, I get that Twitter is really dragging everyone down, and…

We had a really good training at work that was focused on gender bias, “othering” behavior,  how to create an inclusive workplace where everyone's skills get used, etc. I was like, “harassment training has really upped its game.” 

Yeah. I was thinking it was all a ploy to force Disney to buy Sony entertainment.

Yeah. I will admit to having low mattress standards. It was a good deal relative to an even worse rip off in my past.

My wife and I bought a mattress for $900 in 2003 when we moved out of NYC and had a big enough place to not use my 3/4 width antique bed that was great for a tiny Brooklyn 1 bedroom. We had it until we had a house fire in 2012 and needed to replace (smoke stink). We went ahead and upgraded to a fancy pillow top at a…

I’ve got a kids of both genders. The results of stereotypes range from the annoying (my son went from being a neater eater as an infant to a messier one as a middle schooler because of the different gender expectations) to the destructive (neither of my kids fits the stereotype all that well, and they’ve had the range…

I’m usually suspicious of “moral hazard” claims, but I think there’s a moral hazard in rewarding grifters for running for President. We should be destroying their reputations and making it impossible for them to make money off of the run. It took 3 cycles for Republicans to get an “outsider” grifter (as opposed to…

Hugger, kisser, boob honker, butt grabber... Just totally normal and innocent stuff. How could anyone know that any of those are wrong?

I feel like it could be more sinister? The Russian bots have been pretty persistent in amplifying “American descendants of slaves” critiques of Harris and “she slept her way to power with Willie Brown” shit. Gabbard also has pushed the Russian line on Syria. Feels like the Russians feel like Harris someone who could…

My dad is a retired clergy person, and he reposted Meghan McCain’s article on miscarriage with a brief comment on how badly equipped he was as a young clergy person when a woman first came to him for counselling on her miscarriage and how he went to his only female colleague (at the time, it was the early 70s) and…

I still think about that novel. So brutal.

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