It’s not that I don’t think she has a change. Any place in as evenly divided as GA has become (Trump only won it by 5 or something) has a chance of electing a Dem. I’m just wondering if she can win this outright? Because the problem for Dems in Georgia has always been the run-off where the third-party voters are…

In my shame and indolence, the only Philip Roth I own is “The Plot Against America” which is an alternate history / partial biography blend and is thoroughly chilling. I have been wanting to revisit it for years but as the subject matter deals with the subtle (then not so subtle) rise of fascism and its horrific…

Like RBG, let’s hope JCO is taking her vitamins.

I don’t either. I’m so much more worried about her. She’s 87, and she is The Queen. She stands shoulder to shoulder with any writer that’s ever drawn a breath.

Bwa ha ha. Not worthy of a triumvirate, but better her than a literary giant.

Please oh please let it be Stephenie Meyer.

Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, ...

I was just about to write “Gah, now he’ll never get his Nobel! The Great American Literary Hope is gone!”

Looks like we can finally be rid of the neckbeards kvetching about Roth not winning the Nobel every year. The award can only go to a living author.

When I first visited DC after living in NYC, I was confused and horrified by the carpet on the metro. I was like “how can this even work?!”

Either you dont know what you’re talking about or are bitter about some aspect of the race results. There was plenty of framing this race as a proxy for Bernie vs Hillary among national Democrats and donors.

All the people I’ve seen peeing on the subway at least had the decency to not expose themselves. You’ve still got a pool of urine, but at least you aren’t seeing subway dong. And none of the surfaces absorb urine (MTA knows what they are dealing with, would be a much bigger issue on the DC Metro, especially in the…

I was at a Pearl Jam concert in one of those outdoor pavilion places with seats under a roof, and then a lawn area up on a hill. This venue had just installed regular hard plastic stadium seats on part of the lawn so they weren’t under the roof of the main shed, but you no longer had to sit on grass. So I’m standing…

Oh, our gun violence is incredibly extreme. The fact that it was an axe murder is one of the reasons it’s in the news in the first place. It’s South Africa, so we have one of the highest murder rates in the world. People get shot on a daily basis all over, getting murdered with an axe is almost refreshing.

Now if this was on the MTA, no one would have noticed.

You are going to rock it. So glad you have your boy.

Mother of a boy, here, and an abuse survivor. What you’ve described is what I’ve always planned. I love him more than life itself, but if he hurts anyone else’s babies, I won’t be able to live with myself.

Speaking as a former dialysis social worker, probably not a transplant. It is possible that the trauma of surgery caused her kidney to shut down, which would require temporary dialysis - but only if the other kidney was also shut down. (Fun fact: you can do fine with just 25% function in ONE kidney - kidneys are…

An abortion.