I get the impression that she actually really enjoys doing pretty broad, physical comedy. That’s not to say that she wouldn’t enjoy some variety in her roles.

I have empathy for Betty (and as another commenter complained, for Henry). Losing a parent or spouse is bound to be hard. And it wasn’t just this one scene either: when the cop comes to the door to announce that Gene is dead, Sally gets left standing out on the porch dealing with whatever feelings she has.

Two reflections:

So, were you just asleep for 14 years while active combat troops pulled 3, 4, 5 tours of duty in combat because there wasn’t anyone else to send to Iraq and Afghanistan? While they were “stop-loss”ing people? While people who had joined the Reserve were pulling multiple combat tours?

But it’s still covered by statute: A person shall be stripped of citizenship for, among other reasons, accepting, “serving in, or performing the duties of any office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof, after attaining the age of eighteen years if he has or…

I didn’t immediately think of that, but if you got this shower and didn’t use drugs, I think you’d have to start.

I’m sure there’s something awful and terrible happening in the labor conditions behind the scene, but Emirates is a pretty impeccable flying experience.

Apparently, you live in a world where moral obligations fall entirely on the laborer.

One of the many ideas that is wholly laughable here is that somehow the pittance that families getting TANF can be used to buy drugs in a meaningful amount. I represented hardcore heroin addicts who would often use a full bundle of heroin (20-25 packets) a day. That’s like a $250 a day heroin problem. The idea that…

Most of these same commentators who now want to get a detailed report on exactly what food the poors are eating are the exact same people who were caps-lock-with-italics outraged that the First Lady was promoting (not mandating, just promoting) healthy lunches at school and exercise for kids. To them, Michelle Obama…

Oh, I am happy to forgive her one drunken tantrum. I am much more responding to the apparently very calculated way she is presented in the photograph and tweet, and more generally in her publicity surrounding her buddy pic with Sofia Vergara. The public perception of Reese Witherspoon has been generally negative for a…

While I’m generally a skeptic about how much the DOD spends, these kinds of training exercises seem like comparatively good expenditures.

“I am a pleasant human person. I have a likeable persona and I do nice things. I do not scream at police officers. I single out humble municipal workers as a totally natural and not at all calculated thing. I am definitely not counting the minutes till I can go home and bathe your plebian filth off of my body. I am so…

Some people really take the whole “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” to an unpleasant extreme.

While there are some minor differences tolerated in drawing districts, most congressional districts are roughly the same size (around 700,000 people). The big difference is usually the political composition of your local district and whether it tends to be a safe district for one party or another.

Opposite-sex fraternal twins definitely exist. There are a handful of cases of documented identical twins that have arisen from unusual genetic abnormalities because, at the time the fertilized egg split, the sex-determining chromosomal information split in a bizarre way. Since clones are not created by splitting the…

Because evolution requires a substantial population including genetic variance from which the genes associated with useful traits that enhance reproduction and long-term survival emerge over many generations. There is no such thing as “evolution” happening in a sample of one person, certainly not during infancy or…

Being within a foot of the batter would almost certainly constitute interference with the batter, since the batter could not take a full swing (“Defensive interference is an act by a fielder that hinders or prevents a batter from hitting a pitch.”). If you backed up the fielders to a distance where the batter could…

Joan is 10?

Everywhere you’ve written east, you mean west. While you can get from Nepal to the Persian Gulf by going east, (or from the Persian Gulf to Texas), it’s a lot closer going west. And the LA river is certainly 1500 miles west of Texas, not 1500 miles east.