A galaxy of stars for this comment.

“Third person: he, she, it, they.”

Ugh. This stuff. Ambitious, arrogant, ugly people being ugly with each other. Good thing the snow is melting and I can go look under a rock if I want to see something gross.

I hear you, sosgemini. I try to live by Mary Oliver’s wise words: “let the soft animal of the body love what it loves.” So much discourse is about whose ideology is “right,” and who is speaking their ideology correctly. Words matter, not for the sake of ideology, but for the sake of expressing one’s own humanity with…

Yes. I love her. She is an inspiration because she stays to her own course as a woman and an artist. She doesn’t let herself be constrained by any identity or role or purpose. Wonderful.

She prefaced the whole statement with:

He assumed she would win and at the same time he needed her to know her place. His letter about the e-mail and his timing for releasing it and speaking of it drips with misogyny. How do we know? Because it sounds so normal.

Wish I could give you all the stars for this very thoughtful, workable, excellent advice!!!

Thank you for making this point. I’m so weary of listening to mostly male comics rant about any sort of criticism that might censor them from making rape jokes because everything must be fair game. The weeping and gnashing of teeth for Louis CK and Aziz Ansari, the disdain of women in the stand up world who have said…

All the stars for your father and for you sharing his clarity and wisdom.

There are several teens, some not even voting age, who are running for governor of Kansas. They are motivated by their experiences in the schools system which has had its funding gutted by the conservative state legislature over the last decade. RISE UP YOUNG PEOPLE! This 50-something aunty is on your side!

Why do you prefer it? I’ve never had it, although my neighbor who hunts does eat it. I don’t have to courage to ask my neighbor so I’m asking you. What does it taste like?

I’ve been out of the dating scene for over 5 years and yes, it’s been that long for no sex as well. In that time I’ve done a lot of growing up and healing. I keep telling myself that when I’m ready, I’ll get back into dating. I go on-line, set up a profile, browse the profiles of men who might be good matches, and…

Get a wig! You’ll be fabulous.

Stars to you.

Completely believable that if she bought it at a clinic it may have been marked up to $60. A NYTimes investigative piece on hidden charges in health care described the mark up on IV therapy. One patient, who was also an anesthesiologist, had spent time in the hospital and received six liters of saline for IV therapy.…

“without once having to start cooking meth to pay for his treatment. “

I have been thinking very deeply about the nature of open-heartedness and logic. I believe that people who claim to be on the side of social justice and then argue in their own interests with logical invulnerability deserve a wide berth. My own ex-husband was a stone cold feminist. He could site bell hooks forward and…

How did you know she was “progressive?” It doesn’t sound like that was the case at all! It’s to your credit that you had the confidence and awareness to read the situation. Unfortunately, predatory people come in all political flavors, genders, faiths, cultures, levels of education, etc.

Back in the 90s I remember listening to this show every week and enjoying the easy pot shots at midwestern culture. As a midwesterner living in LA at the time, it satisfied my need to feel superior to the place I had come from. Over time, I got over that. But one of his “News from Lake Woebegone” stories always stuck…