Mr. Spade’s remark that Kate “sounded happy” the day before she died prompted me to want to share. I have major depressive disorder and anxiety. I see my therapist and my psychiatric nurse practitioner on the reg. I take five medications daily, and I’m sitting in front of my light therapy box right now. Most of the…

I’m nearly 60. While the show did seem obvious, it’s straightforward in an uncommon way. The graphic novel style of Dietland makes it more allegory than realistic, so the story and the violence, which is mostly suggested rather than shown, represents emotional wish fulfillment. It’s not a pretentious and empty Marvel…

This.

For all of the ills the internet has bestowed upon us, it would be great to drag Nixon on twitter.

Not if you’ll never work again ever, in any field, if you try to publish it. No editor at the time would have run that even as some anonymous gossip.

I’m pretty sure I only know about most of that stuff because i’m majoring in history and went looking for it, which is pretty sad.

But he published lots of details about JFK that would be considered personal and separate from his public life. He discussed his lovers and had to remove parts of Darkside of Camelot about Marilyn Monroe that turned out to be based on forged evidence. (His source forged not him.)

We have known about Nixon’s abuse for a long time, now..... What it hasn’t been is widely-reported enough to be one of the salient things people remember about Nixon. It’s not common knowledge, even though the info is out there in regular over-the-counter documentaries and texts.

No. She knows it and so do people who read from various sources-often foreign- and watch documentary shows like Frontline on PBS. That’s not “we”, that’s a tiny minority of us.

Not at the time. That’s the point.

What else don’t we know? What sort of question is this? Nearly everything.

I see you.

Cue all the Americans gloating and feeling superior to Europeans “who are all pedophiles and perverts” (a sentiment I’ve seen expressed here MANY time) I guess it’s always fun to be xenophobic and to rely on stereotypes. As long as it’s not racist, right?

Did you see Abrams landslide, in GEORGIA?

Leading the opposition to Trump and his policies is the last thing Obama should be doing.

Working on getting the Obama Foundation and presidential library seems like a good use of his time to me. Also that time off? Well earned. I hope he and his family enjoyed every second of it.

Yeah, our school explained that they teach the 5 year olds to hunker down really small and be super quiet. “Pretend you’re a bunny hiding in the grass”. Jesus - what a fucking country we live in. 

I have three sons. My youngest is in 6th grade. About 6 months ago, we were in a lockdown in a mall during a false alarm linked to a reported shooting. Last night at dinner, unprompted, he started talking about how he didn’t respond to the lockdown the way he thought he would. My wife said she didn’t really think…

Christ, a few weeks ago I was at a store buying some sodas or something, and the clerk told me my total in Spanish. She quickly corrected herself in English and acted so embarrassed. I live in a pretty Puerto Rican neighborhood, so she speaks Spanish to a lot of customers, but she was crazy apologetic to me, a White…