Haha. Yeah, I’ve been tempted to say he deserves it. But on principle, I just can’t. If anyone did that to Bernie or Hil I would NOT be happy about it. Me defending Trump on this is like the ACLU defending the KKK. It’s not out of desire to protect them or their message!

You couldn’t pay me enough to read Purity. After Franzen’s bizarre New Yorker article about Edith Wharton not being a great writer because she wasn’t sufficiently sexually attractive to men.....dude is dead to me. Freedom was bland and forgettable. It isn’t a tenth the book as House of Mirth.

her questions were fair in that if she asked them in a one on one interview, there’d be nothing wrong with it. but it’s bogus as hell that she tried to railroad him (or anyone)in a debate that was supposed to be “fair and balanced” lol. if she asked other candidates cheapshot questions, then ok, but she didn’t. i hate…

Creepy. She does look like his type though. Still, don’t most female fox news anchors look like her? I don’t watch Fox, but I remember that meme that had all their pictures- and they were all thin, pretty, white, long-haired blondes.

That's probably it then. He seems like the sort of man who would never forgive a woman doing anything that might lead to his embarrassment.

I think he is attracted to her. You how first grade boys tease a girl they like? I think this is just like that. He is obsessed with her, but doesn’t know the words to express his feelings.

Love the carnivorous plant opening- great as usual. His general misogyny is unsurprising, but I'm interested in his continued obsession with Megan Kelly. What's that all about? Why does he keep attacking her, specifically?

only half??? only half?? whats wrong with rest of you people???

I also known this for many years...

I don’t think they make judicial robes in “Dad Polo” styles, though.

Perhaps a destination party? Victoria Day sounds lovely or we could do Memorial Day in the US. Late May is beautiful in the northeast.

Would you like to be co regent? We can have a magnificent garden party and Putin is not invited.

I move to give the US its own queen and I nominate myself for the position.

France also has a unified head of state and government. But you're right, it's unusual.

That would have made for some very nice pictures. I wonder if it would have been a bit much for a US appearance, though, since they’re so uncommon here. Sophie might not have wanted to coordinate her dress to one, either.

we just call her “the spouse of the prime minister of canada”.

it’s super catchy, eh?

Absolutely adore the color of the whatever-the-Canadian-word-is-for-First-Lady’s dress.

Alas, I strongly suspect the hair is flame-retardant, so I guess we’ll have to settle for having heaved Steve last October 19th.

Sadly, Jack Layton was so ill by then he probably never would have made it to the state dinner even if he had been elected.

If at the next debate, he tears off his jacket and shirt and reveals a Lovecraftian mass of tentacles comprising his torso and begins to speak in a dead language that somehow all humanity understands...nope, still won’t vote for him. Not unless Nyarlhotep is his running mate.