I usually think it’s nice when my husband puts on some kind of scent (cologne, essential oils, perfume, nice smelling conditioner, what have you). But not long ago he bought a cologne called “Yacht” from Amazon as a surprise for me. I made him get rid of it immediately (he gave it to his brother) because it brought up…

If you structure taxes differently, the private accumulation of wealth becomes less attractive — it’s better to leave the wealth in your company and/or actually do something more publicly constructive with it. Alas, taxes on actual work are still higher than taxes on passive income, which is a big problem.

I just got home from seeing Wrinkle in Time. I can’t compare it to the book because it has been ages since I read it and I hardly remember it, but I do wish there had been a little more actual physics explaining the tessaring. Apart from that, it was gorgeous, and I didn’t mind the dreamy, ungrounded story telling or…

You make a good point that a drag queen who isn’t so flamboyant in real life can take off the makeup and dress, and go out and be a “real man”. But the reason they are celebrated by feminists is that they are eroding taboos around both male and female behavior by performing in drag. (And they are super fun too!)

I went to a “drag party” last year, where guests were encouraged to come dressed as the opposite sex. My husband likes to dress in drag for Halloween (he made an amazing Wonder Woman), but I had never done it before. It was so much fun. Just wearing male clothes, and trying to posture as masculine, was a little like a…

Gene Kelly would rise from his grave just to kill Ryan Gosling.

Ugh, I didn’t really care who was fucking who during Clinton’s presidency, and I don’t care now either. I do care that every one of these people is either utterly corrupt and criminal, or utterly inept, or both.

Or get a menstrual cup. They are the best.

Goddamn it Obama, I love you man, but this one’s on you.

I have stopped watching several times, but my husband kept dragging me back into it because he loves the zombie actors and the comics the show is based off of and is in general a huge horror- and gore-hound. Then a few episodes into season six I put my foot down for good.

I was already pissed that they (appeared to…

As a Jew, and an ally of LGBT people, I also have strong feelings about Billy Graham. Mostly that he can burn in his own awful conception of hell. Why the fuck is this guy laying in state in the rotunda?

Are you kidding? If this White House hasn’t had a single case of hanky panky in its first year I would be astonished.

I hadn’t put all those dots together. Fucking tiny-handed orange bastard.

Either way it’s bad. If it’s her own opinion — “I’m not racist, but yeah, the Jews, blacks, and Mexicans are horrible” — just wow, I don’t say this lightly, but I hope she kills herself.

If it’s that she doesn’t believe she’s racist, but she’s wondering why Spencer believes as Spencer does and has come to ask him to…

Wow. What a disgusting world view. Yesterday I spent much of the day helping out an older relative, Vera, who needed a ride home from cataract surgery. She, her husband Sasha, and their kids immigrated here in the late 1980s from Russia. They were able to immigrate here because of “chain migration”, but it was still a…

Jeezus, Jezebel, I just finished reading “What Happened” and this is pretty classic Hillary. She’s a good person, super smart and capable, and tries to do the right and generous thing — and occasionally fucks up. Is the timing suspect, and perhaps deliberate? Hell yes. Is it a “huge turd”? Not really. She made a…

Tim Allen, a man who refuses to quietly vanish like the rest of his Home Improvement castmates, is undertaking a new, deeply Tim Allen project: A docudrama called No Safe Spaces.

And you don’t get to begin history when it is convenient for you either. Not mentioned in this link is a little thing called the Holocaust, after which many European Jews were left as homeless refugees with few places to go besides Israel. It goes back and forth, back and forth. Both sides have done terrible things,…

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-confirms-hamas-planned-massive-tunnel-attack/

(And I said more about it in response to NYCproducerGuy.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-confirms-hamas-planned-massive-tunnel-attack/

So after the fact it seems like the Rosh Hashana date may or may not have been only a rumor, it’s a little hard to pin down. I originally heard about this during a sermon by my rabbi at the time. The tunnels were real, and the plan to…