We’re FAMILY.

I often think about how Obama taught Con Law for a while, and I imagine myself in that element of the multiverse where I got to take his class (my own Con Law prof was fucking phenomenal BUT STILL).

Teachout was my property law professor last year. I don’t know how her platform compares to her competitors’ but she is an absolute badass.

Subway was my savior as a baby undergrad - the ‘veggie delite’, while not very good, was a way to get a big pile of vegetables into my belly very conveniently and very cheaply (6" used to be 2.99$!) I don’t know anybody who goes to Subway because they love it - the convenience and cheapness is key. I’m not interested…

Exactly.

Stay out of Derry. 

Completely and totally agree. Thankfully, the number of kids remaining in ORR shelters is going down day by day; due largely to the tireless advocacy of the ACLU and the many, many other organizations who have worked hard on these issues. And also, reading a bit more into Lee Gelernt’s comment that many of the kids…

The sheer lack of empathy here is staggering. There are already kids saying they want to kill themselves and sexual abuse in these kiddy prisons. It must be heartbreaking for the parents, but I can understand why they don’t want their kids sent back to somewhere that was so awful they risked everything to escape. Also…

I don’t disagree. Especially since the Emmy wins for Platt and Erivo are from Today Show performances.

I live in Maine. I see all these people talking about the Boston area as if that’s New England. Bah! That’s more like New York than a small Maine town.

If you come to Maine, plan on taking your time. Don’t plan on eating in chain restaurants and always having everything where you expect one to be. Take back roads and…

There are lots of three out of fours out there. The ones you listed are all highly likely to achieve it.

Yeah, this is an issue near and dear to my heart. I actually do understand why some of the parents might feel that way; for many, they brought their children with them to the United States primarily so that the child could escape the crushingly awful conditions, or escape specific threats. And they felt that their own…

Doesn’t matter. No amount of begging will get a Mainer to produce that syrupy, gross, mess that people in the deep south (by which I mean anywhere south of the Tappan Zee bridge) call tea.

If you’re flying in to do peeping outside of Massachusetts, try to get a rental car with anything but Mass plates (and preferably Maine/Vermont/NH).

Avoid towns and county fairs covered in confederate flags. (Last fair I went to was plastered with every type of lib-hating product you can image.)

For Massachusetts

Skip the tourist trap areas of Maine and head to my beautiful hometown of Bath. Take Route 1 up the coast, for a gorgeous drive through Freeport (LL Bean), etc.

If you’re driving on a highway in NH, slower traffic keep right. The left-hand lane is for passing and farster traffic. Get the fuck out of the way.

Live broadcasts of musicals does seem like a suspiciously designed trick to win a bunch of people EGOTs, no? Mel Brooks had to make his own damn musical to get his!

1. Tick spray.