I was six (EDITED because whoops math) years old when the Nader debacle happened in 2000 and even I know that this all or nothing mentality is complete bullshit.

When you care so much about progressivism but use the word "cripple," which disability activists have repeatedly pointed out is a shitty and dehumanizing term to throw around so cavalierly…at least be consistent, Jessica! I'm so glad you care so much about everybody that you're willing to let everyone suffer and die…

Depends on what kind of downbeat it is. I can handle consuming downbeat stuff when I'm already down if it's cathartic. Something like Titanic that's "sad" but in a way where you're crying and the tears feel righteous and you know you're being emotionally manipulated and you want it that way is good by me. But never…

Clueless is my go to sadness movie. Alicia Silverstone always cheers me up, even if only for those ninety minutes.

I am one of those nerd women and my violin is so tiny it is practically nonexistent. In my experience (and again, #notallnerdmen), nerdy guys want me to be into their shitty nerdy interests but have no interest in MY shitty nerdy interests. I will rip off my own limbs before I get bullied into watching someone play…

This is why I actively attempt to date for one month, then give up and watch television for the other eleven months of the year.

The trick is finding someone who is capable of enjoying nerdy shit but doesn't center their life around it, unlike the guy I (very very briefly) dated who insisted on playing Frasier in the background whenever we made out.

I am one hundred percent okay with being the resident nerd in my social circle. They push me to go outside and do "physical" "activities" from time to time, I make them all fall in love with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's a win-win.

Brunchplay? Sounds straight up nasty.

I have a friend who used to write code for the company that owns Christian Mingle. When she left, they offered her a free two year subscription to the site as a going away present. She politely declined.

I'm a nerd but I don't want to date nerds. There needs to be balance in a relationship, and I can't have any of that double nerd shit.

I only ever did extemp in high school (I was a policy kid first and foremost) but I judged a lot of high school tournaments in college to pick up some extra cash and watched a lot of depressing HI prelim rounds. I saw a LOT of David Sedaris pieces, but I think the absolute worst was a kid doing ten straight minutes of…

That was (blessedly) never a thing in my circuit, but Humorous Interpretation is the individual event from HELL.

I'd like to see Gregg Araki take on A Midsummer Night's Dream, more or less because that's the first thing I thought of.

Hey, we aren't all Orange County! Or San Diego! Or coastal LA!

That was an amazing episode of TAL, but hearing that foster mom ADMIT that she knew she was victim blaming but go ahead and do it anyway was fucking horrifying.

Her magnificent work talking about The Americans is a cherished gift. I will never get sick of reading what she has to say about that show.

It's clever, the music is appealing, it has some surprisingly incisive commentary on race and gender, it acknowledges that the founding fathers were not the pinnacle of virtue that American society likes to paint them as, and (for me personally), it's one of the only Broadway shows I've ever seen that features an…

It's a newswire—everyone hates everything in newswires.

We all like it just to hurt you.