Just watched it and yeah, he just totally seemed to forget where he was or why he was there when that question was asked. It was like he was suddenly transported to a cocktail party or talent show.

Neither can I, especially not if Alexis Bledel is still playing Rory. Now, had Liza Weil had gotten to be Rory (supposedly that’s who she auditioned to play), I could believe Mädchen Amick as her mother.

I couldn’t make it through the whole clip—why was she shouting? She also struck me as extremely well-coached. She had sales figures and ran through a list of branded products that her company sells. To be honest, I feel a little sorry for her. I don’t think it’s possible to be this good at being a brand at her age and…

Yeah, my mind jumped to the Katy Perry thing, too: “Wait, didn’t they split up because he wanted kids right away?” It sounds to me like she dodged a bullet.

The films about this administration that will be made ~20 years from now (assuming that the country manages to recover from this administration in that time) are going to be amazing. There are going to run the gamut from serious Oscar-bait dramas to extremely silly comedies (virtually no artistic license would be…

I was also reminded of a friend who was in this situation at the BBC. To compound her problem, she initially got her job on a post-study work permit (for hot the five minutes that those existed), but couldn’t get her bosses’ attention about sponsoring her for the necessary (and more long-term) work visa until it was…

It’s such a weird trade-off, when you think about it. The “access” they all covet isn’t getting anyone any special insight or point-of-view. They’re all reporting exactly the same obfuscations; it’s only the editorial spin that changes. And anyone who wants to leak information will be contacting press offices, not…

Every member of the White House Press Corps should ask the same questions Acosta did and refuse to ask anything else until they are answered. Dare Trump to ban all of them. I wouldn’t put it past him to do it, but the news media are going to report on him regardless of whether he speaks to them directly or not, and he…

It’s a good price, isn’t it? Hundreds of dollars, as opposed to the thousands that a hospital or licensed midwife would cost—but it’s actually not that far off from $1000. I bet a lot of thought went into choosing that price.

Free Birth Society is part of the broader free birth movement, which is, much like the home birth movement, “rooted in a dissatisfaction with the current obstetrical model,” as the Daily Beast puts it. That model includes a 30 percent cesarean section rate for mothers in the United States. Free birthers also point…

Exactly. Something my husband was saying the other night: if it weren’t a US state, but instead a country like Russia, the press wouldn’t be so shy about calling Kemp what he is.

Exactly. What’s more, even with the Democrats taking control of the house, it’s not exactly a bloodbath. Plus, now Trump’s complaints about obstructionist Democrats preventing him from doing anything will have the ring of plausibility (not that it ever mattered to his supporters). In any case, I imagine that they were…

I agree. So many people have strong opinions about which way the permanent move should go: “I want noon on the clock to correspond to the solar noon!” vs. “I want to have a few hours of daylight when I finish work.” I don’t care—I just don’t want to have to adjust my clocks (both physical and internal) twice a year.…

Yep. He’s the white man, therefore the only people allowed to be bigger, stronger, smarter, and more accomplished than he is are other white men. Although he has so much invested in being the intellectual force behind the “alt-right” that I think he’d struggle to admit that anyone is smarter or more accomplished than…

It appears that she holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto. I have a pet theory that Richard Spencer quit his Ph.D. at Duke because he either failed his preliminary exams or knew he was going to fail them—in other words, he jumped before he was pushed. My guess is the fact that she succeeded where he failed…

This is my reaction as well. I have to keep taking breaks because I can’t stand Grassley’s rants, but from what I’ve seen, she hasn’t been unnecessarily hostile or antagonistic, and any editorializing she’s done has been in the form of jokey back-and-forths with Dr. Ford. I can’t imagine how awful the tone and…

I’m skeptical that it’s Pence, unless the New York Times is lying that this person’s job would be in danger if his or her identity were known. As The New Yorker’s piece on Pence points out, the Vice President cannot be fired.

So where did the rumor that Dr. Luke raped Katy Perry come from? And why?

Yeah, central/eastern European spellings and pronunciations often throw those of us who are used to western European languages. I join you in hating Dr. Luke’s guts.

What exactly are you objecting to? If it’s “Lukasz”, it might interest you to know that Łukasz (or “Lukasz”, if you don’t have access to the Ł character) is the standard form of “Lucas” in Poland, which is where his father is from. There are plenty of things that are contrived about “Dr. Luke”, but the spelling of…