Not to be morbid but it’s interesting to think about what would happen if Trump did, in fact, suddenly and unexpectedly pass. The way I see this situation, he is unintentionally and maybe unknowingly holding the republican party together himself through the sheer force of his personality. If he abruptly disappeared, I…

It is hilarious to me that when you visit the website and they show a little mock-up of what a profile on the site looks like, one of the first things the sample feed offers is a horoscope. 

If you think that is mediocre white male territory I honestly feel like you don’t know very many white people. Like, I’m really not sure why we are suddenly so invested in downplaying people’s accomplishments and ignoring actual experience running businesses, good education, etc just because someone looks like our…

LOL yeah sure Amazon, it’s your critics who are the ones failing to appreciate all the nuances here.

It is remarkable to me that people like McConnell and his staff would even bother to engage with celebrities and comedians, but then I realize - to a lot of McConnell’s base (i.e. completely uneducated white people in rural Kentucky), there is no such thing as getting pwned. Like, it is literally impossible to…

Uh so, as California is a two party consent state, doesn’t this mean the Weinstein company committed a crime by recording a phone call without the express consent of the other participants, and in fact lied to the other parties about the recording?

Not only were they not calling each other names, but every single one of them said at least one intelligent, meaningful thing, even Ryan and Delaney. The last round of republican debates was like 50/50 serious people and fools, and one of the fools actually fucking won.

Hear me out for a moment.

At the top of the debate, I was ready for like a MINUTE to discover my appreciation for John Delaney. I thought he came out of the gate with a good first answer, and I admit that I still have a weakness for people with actual private sector/entrepreneurial experience who then serve in elected office. I also dimly…

Jesus you didn’t handle this well.

It was pretty bad but I get really frustrated by the warmed-over nature of stuff like this and Ghostbusters and What Men Want and so on and so on. I already knew the plot very well and the whole movie is just a paint-by-numbers exercise. I also thought about how incredibly unrealistic the entire scenario is - like,…

Thank goodness we have engineered our business/financial system so far out of alignment with reality that this comment is the most accurate of them all.

I agree with you up until the point that the word “socialism” convinces you to vote republican, which is comically ignorant 

That rider is really not that big a deal. Yeah she could probably have her team bring along a halogen heater and bedside lamps, and yeah “new sheets, washed once” is a bit silly, but it’s not like she’s demanding they repaint every hotel suite her favorite shade of blue, or provide a smoothie station or $1,000 worth…

This is a really insightful comment and needs more stars. 

I happen to have a handful of friends in the entertainment industry and three of them separately posted on facebook yesterday with messages to the effect of “remember that crazy story I used to tell people/I posted on facebook/I put on my blog about an unnamed celebrity sex pest? That was Max Landis and I can…

There are a lot of “realists” who base their strategy on what works with the older generation, because the older generation reliably fucking votes. I am still pretty convinced that turnout in 2020 is only going to bump up against 65%, more or less per usual. Even the 2018 midterm didn’t crack 50%, although it was a…

That escalated rather quickly based on your inability to understand source material

Okay so she wasn’t actually forced to cheerlead for her rapist

Before I met my husband, I used to think I could never live with someone, or I would need long breaks, or maybe I don’t ever want to be in a long term relationship, etc etc.”Living together apart” was seriously the only paradigm in my head I could imagine for myself.