I confess it: I would buy lots of neat stuff for myself.

I had a friend who ran a wonderful nursery school for many years. She didn’t drive, so her husband drove over to pick her up at the end of the school day every day: in wet weather, he would always wait outside in the car, because the combined smell of peanut butter, pee, and small child on a rainy day was just too…

One forgets how brutally homophobic the left once was (and not so long ago, at that). It wasn’t just Joe McCarthy and the rest of the fascists on the Republican right who were outing people like crazy, or alleging “homosexual activity” against them in order to destroy their credibility or drive them out of government…

Not to defend this old fascist, but the one not-horrible thing I know about him (literally everything else is horrible, because fascism is horrible) is that he has genuine affection for these creatures.

To be fair to the whole Baby Angela Miracle Cure subplot, back in the days of orphanages, apparently healthy babies used to die off in droves: it turned out a lot of them were dying of a kind of profound neglect. Although their critical needs were met, and they were fed and kept warm, they were not held or interacted…

The sight of that little anus mouth puckering and unpuckering doesn’t get any easier.

Nonsense. He did a lovely job. Every word as crisp as toast:

The Hitler/cookies meme was kind of it. Anyone who was still willing to work with this woman after that was walking into a shitstorm eyes wide open. I mean, tittering about genocide (even if it was just to be “edgy”) may be even worse than calling someone a cunt, I don’t know.

I’m delighted to have been proven absolutely wrong.

Roseanne’s anti-Semitic attack on George Soros is as ugly as her vile, racist attack on Valerie Jarrett. The fact that ABC/Disney hasn’t spoken out and taken steps to cancel this woman’s show speaks volumes. I would wager that when they do finally speak out, it will be in generalities about “tone” and “civility” and…

Fair point, much sharper than mine, and thank you for this really very good and useful analysis. Feet on the ground and shoulders to the wheel make all the difference, especially when the stakes are high and people’s lives are touched directly. I know of several campaigns here in the US that are being managed by…

If true, this means the people of Ireland successfully pushed back against the kind of intense blitzkrieg of dark-money-funded agitprop that saddled Britain with Brexit and the poor old USA with Donald and his fascist cohort: the old Cambridge Analytica crowd, whatever they’re calling themselves now—-Kanto, in…

The Daily Mail and its horrible, reactionary, trollish readership (roughly evenly divided between desperately unattractive old Brits who want to imagine themselves back into the bad old days of Empire, rabid Americans who like to pretend to be British—they’re big on “whilst”—-and Russian agents of mischief being…

God. The 1960s. So wholesome. Ask those of us who were there. Assassinations, secret wars, de facto and de jure segregation, angry white folks screaming curses and throwing rocks at little kids for the unforgivable sin of riding a bus to a school, napalm, cops cracking the heads of student demonstrators, Nixonism, the…

I’m ready for the Counter-Enlightenment to be over. I am weary of inhabiting an era defined by the ugliest, most perverse, sickest and most malignant creations and philosophies and individuals in human history, from stiletto heels to Scott Pruitt.

Indeed, she’s getting a full-on Princess Diana remake, with articles appearing everywhere simultaneously declaring her to be warm, dignified, caring, European (but not in the bad way), and well on the royal road to being America’s Princess. They don’t quite have her deploring land mines and cuddling random babies, but…

I’m old, too, and my instinct tells me that Barbara is suffering from the depression of old age (old women carry a lot of sorrow, whether or not they want to acknowledge it: memento mori), and because she’s phenomenally intelligent and insightful and good with words she’s turned her depression into an analysis, a…

This disgusting old Bond villain, along with his three more or less equally creepy but slightly less sociopathic brothers (Freddie, the gay one, long ago driven out of the family and forced to fend for himself as an art collector and what used to be called an “extra man”; billionaire Bill, who has been involved in a…

She called out the press, which is what they’re really bitter about, and which is why they’re latching on to the Republican Outrage Machine and all this deeply bogus shit about Sarah Sanders, including all those attacks on Sarah’s physical appearance that actually didn’t happen, but never mind, these are Washington…

Journalists in October 2016: It’s amazing how Trump’s base will forgive him for anything. Including (chuckle) the P Word.They’re just not that upset about his frank talk.