This bums me out because I’m a huge Nats fan who also hates the very vanilla, lazy fan culture in DC and at the games. I will say it’s not that way everywhere — there are plenty of die hards in the stands, lots of season ticket holders and team obsessives who pay attention and stand for strike 3. My husband and I…

Those factual gems about Phil Wood and Johnny Holiday are gold. I demand more random deep cuts!

Totally unsurprising. I mean, there’s guys like this in every city, in every industry. But you take a reasonably intelligent, reasonably attractive young white dude from a middle class or upper-middle class background, and then he works for the first viable black candidate for president, and then he works in the White…

I’m going to go ahead and say it’s worse than Clinton’s attempted dabbing, which was already pretty bad. But you can understand how Clinton wound up in that awkward position — she was on Ellen, people around her were dancing and dabbing, she stupidly attempted to emulate it. Awful, awful, embarrassing mom moment, yes.…

Why can’t both be true? Why can’t we assert unequivocally that no one ever deserves to be attacked and robbed, under any circumstances, and then also say that flaunting material wealth on social media can make you vulnerable to this kind of attack? That’s not the same as saying you deserve it — again, no one does. But…

The thing I find weirdest about the Swift #squad is that it is clearly NOT a group of truly close girlfriends. I mean, I think some of them are genuinely friends who hang out. But all those women who appear in Bad Blood? The vast majority probably barely know Swift and have only worked with/hung out with her a handful…

Somehow I both agree with Demi’s comments about Swift and think she shouldn’t have said them, and definitely shouldn’t have issued a non-apology about them. Not because I thought they were mean, really. She’s basically saying Swift and her friends are really pretty in an unattainable way, which isn’t “nice” but also…

This is a trend for people who don’t have weird initials that spell phonetic nonsense words that people will read out loud, slowly, as a question. “Eeerrfff?? What’s Erf? Is it supposed to say ‘elf’? Why would you misspell the word elf on your handbag?”

I went into the pilot very concerned about that specific issue based on the way HBO has handled other shows (The Sopranos and the first several seasons of GoT), and came away feeling far less concerned. If anything, Westworld reminds me most of the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in terms of its treatment of violence and…

Please do. This is really ambitious, interesting art. Raises all kinds of interesting questions about how we define what it is to be human, the social contract, power, the meaning of life (and death)... I’m not saying it’s a perfect show or that you’ll love it. But the idea that the show is “not necessary” because it…

Yes. There are human women in both management and rank and file at the company that runs WestWorld, and there are human women who buy tickets to WestWorld, though so far we have not seen much of the latter. There is definitely a sense that WestWorld has a strong appeal to wealthy men who want to murder, steal and rape…

A few things:

Anyone who doesn’t consider Andy Dalton a top QB over the last year can’t be taken seriously. The Bengals may never win a playoff game, but Dalton is absolutely a top passing QB. Try again.

I use both depending on whether I’m happy or unhappy about something.

It happens. I had to cast a provisional ballot in the 2010 midterm because I’d failed to change my address for my voter registration when I moved across town a few months prior. Very good chance my vote wasn’t counted.

Good advice, though I will note that the worst cat scratch I’ve ever gotten was made by one of my cat’s dull back claws. It got caught on my hand and he freaked out (understandably) and bolted. Because it was not terribly pointy, it made a literal canyon on the back of my hand. Took six months to fully heal and I…

This has more of an impact on the Os than it does teams in other divisions. The AL East has been very highly competitive as of late, in a way few other divisions are. It sucks when you’re playing better baseball than division leaders in other divisions, but your playoff chances are still in doubt because so are at…

What, you don’t love being viewed as the unpaid, unrewarded lynchpin of society, taking emotional care of everyone around you while also earning a living and, obviously, looking really, really cute at all times? But what’s not to like?

This is more garbage excuse making from Trump, but there is a part of me that would enjoy an unmoderated debate. Even better would be if it was held in a studio without an audience for Trump to shock/aggravate/entertain with his bloviating. Just the two of them in a room with a list of topics. She’d eviscerate him,…

Yeah, I didn’t go all the way through the list, but most of the people on it do seem to be entry-level in Congressional offices, which is a very low-paying, very non-glamorous job consisting mostly of constituent relations. But it can depend on the office you work in. It depends on the size of the staff, your own…