There is a certain edifying clarity that comes from living in these, our fallen times: you begin to see that the country is riddled, mostly through its upper (not just tippy-top) classes, with borderline sociopaths, seething misogynists, neo-monarchists, high-key racists, and outright fascists.

We’re all pulling for you, Mayor Pete. 

I refuse to accept the idea that the Clintons are a political dynasty. Bill and Hillary are a power couple, but they’re the same generation. Neither of them came from some powerful family with connections. They got to where they are together.

I am but a distant appalled foreigner who has family in Virginia, but my unrequested suggestion would be for the rapey one to resign “to facilitate a thorough investigation” and then the racisty one to appoint a replacement, ideally a black woman, and then the racisty one to resign “to work in a more supporting role as…

Obviously I don’t really care, because Melania sucks, but I wonder if she and her staff are being treated with the same respect as previous FLOTUS’. It seems they’re not, which is fine because all of these people deserve to be miserable. 

As a Norwegian, I can confidently say that you should never be proud of being any amount of Swedish.

Bitch.... Michelle O accomplished more in her life BEFORE she became first lady than you and your whole tornado bait trailer trash family have ever even read about. Double Ivy League Graduate. Lawyer. Hospital Administrator. Mother. Go getter. Accomplisher of many things, not the least of which is to be married to a…

Thanks Beth, your article serves as journalistic lodestar to the rest of this nation.

“Don’t thrust anyone over 30"

“Horton, Here’s a Poo!”

Let he who doesn’t chop his parmesan cheese with a credit card cast the first stone.

We say the same in a joking way, but I’m 3/4 serious.

1) On comparing yourself to your parents: My parents were black, Spanish speaking immigrants from Panama. They both had union jobs with good pay, time off and bought a house using a thrift loan throogh the union co-op bank. They also had a modest pension.

You are struggling compared to your parents. Real Wages have not really increased but the cost of living, taxes and inflation have never stopped rising.

“a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial,”

Incidentally, I have been buying a helluva lot more beer under this administration.

Individuals can’t burn that many calories in that amount of time

We as a society really need to get over the idea that there are two equal sides to every story. No, we don’t need to have a “dialog” about everything. The world is round, climate change is happening, humans are a product of evolution by natural selection, and racism is wrong. Period. When you treat these people like…

Acknowledging an objective truth is not “being an apologist.” I’ll go one better. I think she would have been a good president. Not in comparison to Trump, but objectively.