You know it’s bad when Iowa is making the rest of the country look like rubes.

Here is the congressional map for Iowa:

Helpful graphic: Thanks, Uncle Miltie!

It’s not even just about gerrymandering, it’s about voters being purged from the rolls thanks to crosscheck and being turned away at polling places because their precincts had been changed on them without their knowledge. There was a lot of chicanery in North Carolina directed at black voters.

Thank God this is on the docket and being heard before whatever batshit-crazy-flag-humping troglodyte former Goldman Sachs ass-monkey Trump appoints is seated on the court.

PENIS CLAUSE!!!

What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…

Definitely not the same thing, but I always roll my eyes when actors go to extreme lengths to “get real.” Oh excuse me. Method acting. Anne Hathaway starving herself for Les Mis. Dustin Hoffman denying himself sleep in Marathon Man. Jared Leto being an asshole in general on movie sets.

It’s strange to me that this is news now. I mean I’m glad it’s being talked about. But she said this FOREVER. Now people believe it because they heard men verify it?

She always looks rough. Like she should lay off the bleach, stay out of dive bars, avoid the tanning bed, get some good sleep, rough.

I’m sure Baldwin never imagined that this would be his lasting contribution to the world. 

It brings me great comfort that Alec Baldwin keeps doing this impersonation with the sole purpose of getting under Trump’s skin.

AND THE WATER FOUNTAINS WILL BE CHOCOLATE & STRAWBERRY MILK! Totes legit.

On the one hand, I do feel a smidge of pity for some of these people. On the other, fuck them. I’m a poor white person who needs change too, but I’m also neither a bigot nor a fucking idiot so I’m really over the “poor white people just wanted change!” narrative. It feels patronizing and infantalizing. The only people…

I can’t feel sorry for them either. Trump never at any point told them how he’d build the damn wall, and clearly these people have a...negative, like -% understanding of politics and diplomacy. It’s all very simplistic. It’s all very student council president: “I’m going to make the school lunch people serve us pizza…

Actually I imagine she’s like Roy Patterson in the Trash of the Titans episode of The Simpsons after Homer fucks everything up:

Basking in her 2.5 million more popular votes.

I want to make confetti with that statement and dump it on the electoral college.

She could have been president.

A few years ago, maybe 2013 or 14, Secretary Hillary Clinton came to my work (not Wall Street, tech company) for a fireside chat and to promote her book. She talked at length about her experience as SOS, and one thing she discussed was how much “small offenses” matter to so many leaders and countries around the world,…