I have a feeling Gaetz and Aaron Schock totally work out together

Per wikipedia she is 51, so at Fox News she might as well be dead outside too.

Personal anecdote - I had a really traumatic medical experience like 8 years ago, and it made me rethink my priorities and my life and so on. Up to that point I had never had a really serious relationship and I was totally fine with the idea that I might never get married - wasn’t even something I really thought…

Not sure what you mean. I love love love the city I live in, and made a LOT of effort to move here and build a life, because I like it so much.

I remember the trial of Colin Ferguson, the guy who shot up the LIRR in the 90s He was allowed to represent himself, and another attorney referred to the trial as “theater of the mentally ill.”

My husband’s stepfather works for the LA County sheriff’s office. The dude is a straight-up sociopath. Incredibly racist. Hates women. The fact that somebody thought it was appropriate to give him a gun is mind boggling.

I frequently have thoughts like this, about Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana to some extent, even Florida, South Carolina. . . like, am I supposed to pity these people? Fuck these people.

Cool, say that 100 times out loud and see if it magically comes true without tons and tons of work and money on the part of the party 

The only thing I would add to this is, sometimes the truth actually is a knowable thing. You learn it through this process. I generally don’t agree with people who just shrug and say well maybe everybody and nobody is right, we’ll never know! Because that’s kind of intellectual nihilism. I don’t think there’s anything…

LOL okay, you seem to have some deep seated violent anger at a very old man because you don’t like his ideas, but I can’t really help there

I just see this whole thing in the context of many similar arguments in academia that often have the same tone and contours. I’m not saying anybody is right or wrong per se.

This is what I was getting at - basically, the headline and thrust of this post (and honestly, the letter too) are a bit melodramatic.

As a 6 year old, I jumped about 6 feet off the stairs at my aunt’s house, landed on the slate floor of her front hallway, and broke my collar bone.

Not gonna lie, I temporarily forgot Helen Hunt exists 

I have weirdly mixed feelings about this. It reads a lot like an academic turf war of sorts. Like, too bad Lawrence Wright picked a scholar to interview who’s so old and out of touch, or who isn’t on the same page as this other scholar. So much of academia involves really smart people picking the living daylights out…

And then TV shows like “Mozart in the Jungle” or “Empire” come along and you realize the world at large will never really understand the music industry  

I have long been a member of my mother’s AARP motoring plan, and I’ve gotten pitch letters like that since I was about 25.

I think this might be a “both things can be true at once” situation. Ellen might be a very nice person and she also might employ assholes, or be ultimately responsible for not maintaining a good tone on her team. 

I briefly dated an 18 year old when I was 28 and some of my friends acted like I was committing a sex crime.

Her life story is BONKERS. Child actress, major career in education, then goes to Harvard Law School and becomes a civil rights lawyer, then gets elected to the assembly AND the senate before swinging around and joining the LA board of supervisors, where she currently sits, at almost 80 years old.