The transcript is horrifying, but listening to the actual recording is worse, especially to anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of this kind of coercive, power-tripping sexual predation. I have: I suspect a great many of us have.

I would like to track down and, yes, I admit it, do violence to the person who first came up with the ghastly neologism “baby bump.” I hate that term. I hate it. I hate it hate it hatehatehate it.

I fold.

I went to a high school in a really, really wealthy suburb (my family was really, really unwealthy), and there was a type of rich boy, all of them trust fund brats, sort of the Midwestern, North Shore equivalent of Diaper Don. They all had expensive cars and shitty attitudes. When I was young, I hated and feared them.…

Oh Jesus. I don’t think I’ve ever hated Megyn Kelly quite as much as she deserves to be hated. I’ll try harder.

Not for nothing are a handful of hedge fund billionaires buying up water rights around the world. People dying of thirst will pay a pretty penny for a sip of water: and if they’re desperate enough, they won’t even insist that it be clean and potable, which will save ever so much money on filtration, purification, etc.

Yeah, those mad, waste-wealth ingrates. They’re even demanding safe drinking water.

These are the same kind of people who’ve been persuaded by Republican agitprop artists that massive tax cuts for the super wealthy are great, because they themselves may be super wealthy some day (uh-huh), and wouldn’t it be awful to have to act like a decent human being and pay out some of your imaginary fantasy…

It’s a horrible country with some good people in it, as it turns out, and not a good country with some horrible people in it. It’s dreadfully disillusioning to realize that. There are people who always knew this about America—people of color, the poorest of the poor, the most vulnerable among us—but we always imagined…

Is there any way that Republican politicians can be compelled to do cleanup after a mass shooting? They should have to mop up the shattered body parts, scrub away the blood, breathe in the stench of death, look at the reality of it, touch it, feel the tears, look into the eyes of the survivors, instead of getting…

Republicans weren’t as bad, actually, when they worked for the corporations. General Motors and General Foods had a vested interest in a stable country with a large, thriving middle class in which people weren’t at risk of getting their brains blown out by virtue of going on a pleasant family outing to soak up the…

Anthony Kennedy is as much of a “swing vote” as I am, and I’m not actually on the Court.

He who rules the algorithms rules the world.

My gran on my mother’s side survived the outbreak only, much later in life, to develop Parkinson’s disease which progressed slowly at first, then rapidly and virulently, leaving her paralyzed and bedridden, unable even to speak in her last years. Her doctor speculated—it was mere speculation, but he was inclined to…

The biggest problem here is that the corporations that own our major news outlets are run by men who very, very much want these tax cuts to happen, and the reporters who work for them know there are lines that must not be crossed.

Study Zen Buddhism. Grow a garden, even just a window-box. Don’t hold grudges. Get on with life. Love each taste of food and each sip of wine. Love as many people as you can love, and forgive as many people as you can find it in yourself to forgive. Don’t forget about cats and dogs.

En fuego? Jesus.

Don’t smoke. Really, really, really don’t smoke. And listen to the people who are telling you to use sunscreen. Eat your veggies, get as much great sex as you can muster, and don’t fret about stuff.

Don’t forget 2018. Democrats always forget the ones in the middle, which is how we got into this horrid sticky mess in the first place.