Serious request:  Please no more close-in face shots.  My nightmares don’t need that level of detail.

Wow—that is a truly stunning amount of patience and restraint you demonstrated in rebutting this asshat. I couldn’t get past, “What the hell is this asshat talking about?”  Truly — kudos to you.

I realize this is a weird thing to say about a gay guy, but the way he talks about this woman has Gilead written ALLLLLLLLLL over it.

Word. There’s cuddly “Aw, sleeping on Daddy’s hot, man-scaped chest” pics, and then there’s “Passed out in the Lay-Z-Boy with a wee bit of spit up dried on me” pics. Guess which one is ‘Gram-worthy?

We have tons of photos of my husband (who doesn’t really resemble James Van der Beek) shirtless with the babies. Because 1) bonding and 2) in the early days, we were all of us in various states of undress most of the time.

I mean—reading this in a very literal sense—I’m sure he does hate children in general, and immigrant children particularly.

Yes. It’s obvious by now that Dictator was the job he really wanted and the job thought he was running for. You can see the disappointment in his face every time he runs up against the limitations inherent in a (semi)functional democracy under what’s left of the rule of law.

When you’re right, you’re right.

“He speaks and his people stand up in attention,” he gleefully told Fox News on the White House lawn Friday morning. “I want my people to do the same.”

“Real Housewives of the West Wing”

I’m more or less done with heels myself, but I cannot deny that stomping around in an all-caps LEWK with a hot pair of heels makes me feel powerful and sexy. So, enjoy it!

Word. You can rip my various colors of Chucks out of my cold, dead hands.

Seriously? You can’t get away with a wedge or a flat or a loafer? I’ve worked in a number of very conservative environments and plenty of women—particularly older, more senior women—wear flats.

Hear, hear! If you like heels, bully for you! But thank the goodness in the universe that heels are not mandatory. You can look professional—even highly fashionable—with a no heel policy. As my tolerance for optional discomfort has gone down, I’ve mostly traded in my heels for wedges, all of which are comfy and very…

I’m with you. I’ve got a lot going on today, so it’s hitting me in waves, but I think this one is going to stick with me for a while.

Uhh . . . it sounds from the video like she was let go.

Yes! We went there for our honeymoon. It was awesome!

That is . . . just profoundly ugly. Like, you’re expecting it to be ugly. You’re bracing for it. But you just can’t prepare yourself.

Right. There seems to be this question about whether these men can be allowed back into Public Life. I mean . . . Public Life is a big place. Full of creeps and assholes and Nazis and all manner of nastiness.

Stars. All of them.