Uhhhhh, Scandal wasn’t on the air until like 3 years ago. It does not a standard make. Also, the creator of Scandal is the same creator who gave Viola Davis the lead in How to Get Away with Murder. So, definitely not a standard. In no way.

When I was 16, I went into treatment for an eating disorder, that would later come back for ten more years. However, I will always remember what a nurse practitioner said to me when I was 16: she told me that I was brave and resourceful for having found a way to cope. She said it happened to be the case that I had…

Thanks so much for this. . . . .I’m a cigarette addict, which, in many ways, in not nearly as bad as so many of the addictions a person could have. But, I do strongly feel, that it would be easier to quit if smokers were not judged so harshly. That drives us into secrecy and creates a firmer bond between us + and our…

I felt the same way. I don’t want to snark on ALL republicans. But I definitely thought, “Republicans should be embarrassed right now.”

Lowest freaking point of the evening: Anderson Cooper, REPEATING, “Do black lives matter, or do all lives matter?” Couldn’t he have thought of a better way to phrase whatever the hell he was trying to express?

agreed. though I’m almost afraid to say I agree, lest I be banned.

Really? Interesting. . .

I was totally going to try to describe it as some kind of monstrous Zack Braff/Zoeey Deshenal love child!

Mugabe ate a baby elephant once. For his b-day. And campaigned for homosexuals to be beheaded. And has used rape as a way to “win” elections. I don’t know that there’s much pressure that can be put on him at all.

I have no idea about extradition policies. . . . but given Zimbabwe’s human rights record. . . .I feel like it would have been really hard for the U.S. to send him for charges there. . . .

Except we really don’t. We need voter turn-out amongst young people and minorities. This shit doesn’t need to be determined by swing voters.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. . . . we need them

They do speak really similarly—because they both rely on extreme professional success outside of politics to make them sound “presidential”—a tactic that might only work in the United States???

Then he called on another young woman, who started, “So maybe I’m wrong, maybe you can prove me wrong, but I don’t think that you’re a friend to women. How—”

Question about the fake video. . . .does someone actually say “We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”

OK, I was gonna say, “She seems great, but not me!”

LOL.

This is perfect.

I loved the first part of the interview. . . . but then I thought it got a little interviewer-centric towards the end. . . .which always feels a little narcissistic to me

I liked one of her stories that I listened to on the New Yorker fiction podcast (which is awesome, btw), I think David Sedaris read it? Yep. Maybe that’s 1/2 the greatness: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-tur…