Never saw this on Broadway, but I showed the movie version with Meryl Streep, Christine Baranski, et al, to my daughter a few months ago and she LOVED it. Then she downloaded ABBA Gold onto her iPod and started playing it incessantly (I persuaded her NOT to download the movie soundtrack—having to listen to Pierce…

“Veep”, along with “The Good Wife”, are the two best shows for mother-daughter watching. My 13 year old and I are totally addicted.

The interesting thing about both Ron Paul and Rand Paul is that neither of them is a real ardent bible-beating Christian. Rand Paul characterizes his opposition to gay marriage and abortion as “moral issues”, but he’s not out there throwing out bible verses and quoting Leviticus every five minutes. Ron Paul was raised…

“pre-born” baby life=priceless

At least we’re not being subjected to the fucking Santorum sweater vests.

So ironic, then, that Rand Paul was named after Ayn Rand, who was so pro-abortion that she practically went on record as supporting abortion parties.

Yes, thanks for also noticing that fact. PR folks—they’re just NOT like us!

My daughter is 13, but she’s 5’ 8 1/2” and looks like she’s a sixteen year old (albeit one that doesn’t wear any makeup). Yes, boys and men constantly check her out and it’s really, really creepy (I almost decked some unshaven asshole with a case of Coors in the checkout line last year for leering at her; fortunately,…

Does anyone know whether there was a plea bargain on the table for him to just plead guilty and avoid the death penalty? I thought I saw something like that. Or maybe the Feds knew they had so much evidence they didn’t need to offer anything.

Yeah, well women thought Ted Bundy was dreamy in prison too. One of them even married him and received at least one conjugal visit. I feel so sorry for the kid that was conceived because of THAT bullshit.

When I was 6, I walked up to my mom and very firmly said, “I’m never getting married, and I’m never wearing lipstick!”

I’m 50, and I totally remember what it’s like to be a teen. I still think about it quite a bit. Now that my daughter is 13, living with my own real live teenager is bringing back lots of memories and feelings. I have a “New Yorker” cartoon on my fridge that has a mom talking to her teen daughter, saying something…

Thank you so much for writing this. I was very disappointed that Jez didn’t write a piece about Trevor Noah when this whole tweet thing first broke. I was reading a number of them to my husband one morning at breakfast, and especially the “drunk fat chick” tweets were just so fucking offensive to both of us. We winced…

Yeah, I agree with you that some people can really make that work. I’ve finally come around to the idea of it. My brother had an extremely contentious and short-lived marriage (they quarreled and almost called off the wedding, child was conceived shortly thereafter), and the divorce was a long drawn out protracted…

How about my mother when I was in high school: “I wish you could become anorexic, just a little anorexic—it would totally solve your weight problems!” (And she was a nurse!)

And then of course there was the time when I was working as a teacher in a preschool, and one of my coworkers, a really lovely woman, had recently returned to work after surgery/chemo for breast cancer. She had lost some weight, certainly, but of course we were all very protective of her because she was one of those…

I'm totally serious when I say every single song on "Blue", her all-time finest album. The songs all flow together beautifully and are inseparable from each other. Best investment you will ever make musically.

I've read about a third of it, and yes, I agree, it's amazing. But I made the mistake of trying to read it before bed while very tired and got bogged down. I need to dig it out of a pile and start trying to reread it during the day when I'm halfway lucid.

Wouldn't it be awesome if it were a multi-part thing like "The Jinx"?

Turtleneck makes the man.