I’m a native Californian, and I feel so fortunate to be living here during this crisis. Newsom has been amazing at acting quickly, and staying hopeful and optimistic. I’ve liked him ever since he was mayor of SF, but he’s really shining right now.

At this point, we need her in the Senate. MA governor is a Republican, and we don’t want him to appoint a GOPer to fill her seat.

I’m a big Warren supporter, but I will vote for Biden over Bernie. Sanders just seems like a lefty version of Trump.

I went through the list, and I attended mass with some of these priests. I wonder how many of my friends were potentially molested by these people. I was never sexually abused, but I was sent to schools with corporal punishment (pretty brutal — public paddling and hitting kids with rulers, etc.). I pretty much have…

I hate her so much.

If you read the passages from the book that Milan cites, the passages are objectively racist — and, at a minimum, stereotypical. Claims of immersing oneself into a culture does not protect/prevent you from writing something racist. Racism does not need to be intentional to be racist.

Yes, since there are laws about campaign finance and you have to be sure not to take money from, say, foreign nations.

Gen X here — My complaint with Boomers as a generation is that they joined with the Silent Majority and systematically dismantled the system that their parents and grandparents built given the devastation of the Great Depression. They got their virtually free higher education, well-funded schools and libraries, roads…

Apparently, Franken had inappropriately touched women while he was in office -- which makes his resignation fair.

I don’t understand how absorbing and integrating knowledge (like a pancake) is worse than keeping knowledge compartmentalized where you can’t figure out how one thing relates to the other (like a waffle). Also, now I’m hungry. And I need coffee.

She was great as the adoptive mom in Juno. And as the mom in Love, Simon.

Misogyny.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They show the turtle model in the classroom, but then nothing comes of it.

I saw this movie today (because my daughter broke up with her girlfriend and I took her to see It 2 to cheer her up). It’s long; there are too many flashbacks; it’s mostly campy, so the scary stuff isn’t really scary. The gay-bashing scene at the beginning is REALLY intense -- and doesn’t fit the rest of the movie. My…

Spoiler: At the very end of the movie, Mike learns that his parents weren’t crack addicts -- it was just Pennywise messing with him. Which doesn’t really make it better.

I believe it.

Marla raised her in California. Apparently, Tiffany rarely saw 45 and only occasionally he would call on her birthday. (I think the NYT reported on this during the campaign.) It’s probably why she’s in law school and not such a completely soulless person.

So, when I first heard this story, I wondered why he offended by a Lord of the Rings character....

My child has been in a serious mental health crisis for the last year. In California, RTCs run $3,000/day, PHPs are $2,000/day, and IOPs are $1,000/day. And that doesn’t include the cost of full hospitalizations. We are lucky because we have really good insurance. Otherwise, she would be home and we’d be trying to…