Donald Trump is a smushed up caterpillar your 6-year-old brother set on fire with a magnifying glass.

My uncle was a colorful and eccentric guy, alternately a lovely person and a difficult one, and sadly gone much too young due to his relentless chain-smoking. He also used a wheelchair because he had cerebral palsy, so every bit of loathing I already had for Trump was raised to the fourth power when the latter made…

I wonder if Barron will ever escape. Being given the fake name your father used to troll journalists is not a promising start.

A few months ago, a member of my extended family — who is in her 80s — got catcalled and harassed by some drunken louts, in broad daylight, in a chain restaurant.

I hope she told his friends that he smelled like an asshole, and it wasn’t hers.

I’ve written about this before, but some asshole that I didn’t actually know once decided that a bit of sudden, unannounced frottage with me from behind was just the thing. In deep water at a public lakeside beach. With a lot of people around, including many small children. With his arm wrapped tightly around my neck.…

“We’re deeply offended and expect an apology from Nigel Farage.” — Silverback Gorillas

Between her father’s seamy sexual objectification of her and the anti-Semitism that’s common among his minions, I don’t know how Ivanka can stand him either. At the very least, now that it’s public knowledge that her father thinks of her as “a piece of ass”, I think that she and her husband are likely to distance…

I don’t think Elizabeth Holmes started her company as a deliberate scam. I think she was and still is convinced that her technology can be made to work. She’s bought into the myth that anyone who sticks to something long enough is bound to get it right. And that’s just not true; no one is going to invent a perpetual…

She’s not stupid, but she seems to be spectacularly self-unaware. Drs. Dunning and Kruger could probably write a whole ‘nother paper about her.

I don’t think her ban has taken effect yet. Not sure how that works, though.

The one thing Phelps could probably do for Lochte is to say, “Drunk, stupid, and causing international incidents is no way to go through life, son.” Then pat him on the shoulder and walk away fast.

Seconded. The only way he’d be more obsessed with his daughter is if he somehow found a way to turn a clone of himself into a woman.

I don’t know about you, but I think I’m going to wait up until — oh, 4 AM or so, logged into Twitter and holding a massive bowl of popcorn.

This election is bringing up fond memories of my mother and my uncle, both lifelong Democrats, delivering commentary while watching TV appearances by politicians they couldn’t stand. My uncle would sometimes scream out loud at Richard Nixon. My mom, who unlike her brother lived to see the age of hyperpartisan cable…

“Trump has never been known to use drugs or even drink,” Johnston recalled earlier this year. 

There are sex-hormone effects on the developing brain in utero and during early childhood that don’t have a lot to do with puberty a few years down the road. In fact, estrogen is important in brain development in both sexes, but the testicles of male fetuses add testosterone to the mix. However, like any biochemical…

That’s what I was thinking. Either a cis actor has to switch back and forth between presenting as Maura and as Mort, or else a trans actress would have to do the same.

There are two kinds of item that I buy from Lands’ End that I just can’t find anywhere else: Petite one-piece swimsuits and petite outerwear. Those are sufficient for me (a pretty stable 12P) to hope that Lands’ End is around for a long, long time.

Does this mean that This Is Us is going to be the Jack & Bobby of the 2016 season?