I said it above but I do actually believe that Graham is being controlled by the Russians (what a crazy sentence! what crazy times!). He did such an about-face on Trump even before there was a chance that he could replace Sessions. He acts like someone who is scared; his behavior doesn’t make any sense otherwise.

I go back and forth. The Flakes and Sasses of the world are at least human (or give a great appearance of being so), so I feel some kinship with them as opposed to say, Hatch or some of the crazies like Jim Jordan. But if they *are* human, they have a greater responsibility to actually step up to the plate and do the…

I think that’s just his face? It helps him appear credibly pained about being such an asshole, though, which I guess has been working for him?

I’m in the minority but I’ve come around on Dorit. Sure, she’s mega-annoying with her phony accent, but she adds something to RHOBH. That’s all I ask.

I was at work and had the CNN feed but was mostly listening. I do agree that he was doing the same thing with *all* the Democrats (including answering a question with a question, which wasn’t appropriate in this venue AT ALL). It just struck me that his most bilious and personally disrespectful response was to a…

Yeah, I see it more as the case that in the show’s universe, it doesn’t take much send you to The Bad Place. There are multiple ways to get there. (It’s funny that the most on-paper “bad” one - Jason the Criminal - is in some ways the most innocent and sweet-tempered.)

The word that came to mind this morning was “erased.” Dr. Ford has been erased by the Republicans from the entire narrative because she’s not useful to them. Her pain, her suffering, her story - none of those are anything they want to touch. They’ve rewritten this as a Democratic smear campaign, without acknowledging…

On some level, Flake and Sasse and their ilk bother me more than McConnell and Hatch. They pretend to be human but they absolutely cannot be counted on when push comes to shove. Ever.

I get that we’re generally supposed to accept apologies (for minor transgressions), and generally speaking I get that we are all capable of losing our tempers and saying things we shouldn’t. But an apology doesn’t erase what Kavanaugh showed about himself. Yes, he was trying to run out the clock without answering the…

Ramona makes me laugh though the vacation room routine would infuriate me, just watching it (and even knowing it was probably partly set up to infuriate viewers). I remember getting really mad years ago too when she ran out on Heather’s weekend at wherever it was that wasn’t fancy enough for her, and took a helicopter…

I like Chelsea. She’s a type I don’t always like - kind of a “guy’s girl” - but she seems to value female friendships as well.

Eh. I think Andy is the worst, always, and Bethenny sucks in general, but Carole really did herself no favors this season. Yeah, editing and blah blah blah, but she took her cool girl persona a bit too far and from what I’ve heard (I don’t follow her) it doesn’t really mesh with how she acts on social media. I think…

You back off Tinsley! She is like a beautiful, dumb, loyal Golden Retriever. She’s awesome.

I have a weird relationship with the show in which I’ve kind of hated it and always thought it was lame but for a while I used to leave my TV on channel 2 when I turned it off at night (am I the only person who has a “default” channel they turn the TV to before turning it off?). So when I got home at night and turned…

The thing is, she’s inevitably subsidizing his 37 other kids, because it’s not like you can just give the two Spears-Federline kids a “relatively even experience” without doing so.

Oh, I forgot how irritating I found her in Beauty and the Beast.

You’re right - I don’t! I once tried to make “real” pickles but I picked a time when we had a heat wave, so I couldn’t find a cool place to keep the cucumbers while they fermented. The whole thing ended up disgusting, smelling oddly of tobacco, so I threw it out. Since then I’ve made refrigerator pickles that while,…

Angela Lansbury. I will often follow this revelation with, “she knows what she’s done” for comic effect, but of course Angela Lansbury doesn’t know I exist. But I know *she* exists, and she bugs me.

I just got an Instant Pot for my birthday in August, and I’m not yet convinced of its utility.

I hate Franklin Graham so much.