I would love to have the massive self confidence that it takes to lie so blatantly and then be so completely unrepentant when caught. Or maybe it’s self delusion. Either way, I bet on a day to day basis she has less anxiety and depression than I do.

I love Banks as an actress, but I really wished Pitch Perfect 2 were better, and I’m only mildly interested in Charlie’s Angels because it looks like it won’t be very good, I didn’t like the earlier reboot, and my expectations are low because of Pitch Perfect 2 (sample of 1). But I do think women directors should be…

She’s got a point and she’s also pretty awesome. But I’m a sucker for her going back to The 40 year old Virgin and Wet Hot American Sucker so I’m hardly unbiased.

Gladwell, a hack? No way. I’ve spent over 10,000 hours studying his work, so I can assure you that I am an expert.

It’s one thing to see the misleading NTY’s tweet misquoting him and then firing off angry reactionary tweets, but it’s another to have the full context of his statement and still decide to sit down and write about it and pretend he said something he never said.

Reality bites. This is our reality. Either you vote for the person who is living in reality or you vote for the person who is selling you a pipe dream.

I might be naive (not being snarky; I’ve watched you comment for a long time and you clearly understand this stuff better than I do) but isn’t this the value of an ex-President in campaigning? I assume (again, perhaps, naively) that he’s not making actual promises on behalf of Warren or Bernie or anyone else. If he’s…

You do realize that cozying up to those people means continuing to screw over everyone else, right? Remember that these people are literally crying on live TV over the fact that Elizabeth Warren wants to redirect a tiny fraction of their wealth to the greater good where that money will actually have an impact as…

Agreed. I don’t see Obama backing down here, I see him handholding a bunch of wealthy liberal donors whose liberalism is so shaky that the prospect of a tax on even a miniscule portion of their wealth may send them fleeing across the aisle. If cozening these people is the way to keep them in the boat, roll on, Mr.…

The Democrats can’t do anything unless they get elected. And not just the White House, because if the GOP still controls the Senate after the 2020 election, Moscow Mitch will block every bill and every judicial nomination that comes along from a Democratic president and Democratic House. From someone living in the…

How do you write this blog without the rest of his quote? I mean, he literally says we should push for something greater, he’s just asking those with privilege to consider what they are asking those without privilege to risk in that push.

The comments on the original Jez article were a shameful cesspool of white feminism. SO many Jezzies were defending these white female authors piling on a grad student for suggesting that Dessen’s milquetoast YA novels may not have been the best choice for collegiate readers and that a book about discrimination in the…

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

That is absolutely just fucking gross. 

If he didn’t want to be groped, he shouldn’t have been wearing that hat.

Oh thank God. My mom and I recently saw a segment about him on CBS Sunday morning about how he loves to read and supports the local bookstores and visits one in every city he goes to. And he also reads to kids. He was sooo sweet and cute and he made us Nationals fans immediately. I am so glad to hear he is so cool in…

I really wish there was some sort of sports and politics combo to discuss this madness further! Or one take on it on the sports page, and another on the politics page!

You forgot Sean Doolittle, who is the very best of the Nationals. Doo is the best. He had the guts to state publicly why he wasn’t going. And he and his wife walk the walk and talk the talk in community activism. They hosted Thanksgiving dinner for Syrian refugees and got the community involved, when he was with…

God almighty, can you imagine if your fucking boss was like “Please don’t have sex other than with your spouse during the time we’re working on this project.”  It’s like that whole “I can’t have sex because my coach says it will hurt my performance” bullshit.

Bbecause he’s “not a racist!” But just fine with being a homophobic asshat.