I am completely serious. Driving is dangerous and anytime a pregnant woman gets behind the wheel for a nonessential activity she’s putting her fetus at an unnecessary risk.

Should pregnant women abstain from all car rides unless they are necessary? No driving to dinner with friends. No driving to the movies. No driving to a park. No driving to the museum.

If I had some wine while I was pregnant it doesn’t mean I don’t care about my child’s welfare or that I blanch at changing my behavior. It means that I considered all of the information out there and I made a calculus about the likelihood of a negative outcome and I came to a reasonable if not universally held…

I know. There’s so much research about how malleable our memories are, especially old memories. But I’m also so uncomfortable denying someone account of having been abused.

Dylan says she was abused, and even though I have suspicions that it might be a suggested memory, I’m also really uncomfortable denying a person’s account of having been molested. So I’m giving Mia the benefit of the doubt that she didn’t falsify the abuse charges and therefore she is less awful. But I also don’t…

I mean of course Woody is a gross awful human. Mia is less awful. But she’s still awful. It is just compared to Woody’s grossness that she seems like the normal parent.

According to this memorable and fascinating digest of the whole family, Mia Farrow and her family alternately told interviewers she was learning disabled and too dumb to know what she was doing with Woody and that she was a sociopath who seduced Allen? It sounds like she’s been surrounded by assholes her whole life.

I agree with everything in the Times essay, but it wasn’t really a report. It was an op-ed.

I’m almost 40 and I use “I feel like...” all the time and I *don’t* feel like getting lectured at about a benign verbal tick. I’ve taken a lot of the stuff about women providing apologetic preambles to heart and I’ve been careful to speak more forcefully but if this isn’t gendered speech, then who gives a fuck?

“I hope someday it can be the daughter of someone who’s not rich, who’s not married to someone who was a president, that that can happen in this country.”

Who doesn’t want safe vaccines? It is a straw man argument that implies vaccines aren’t safe but they are.

Anti-vaxxers actually think that they don’t really vaccinate their children. They think that Mark Zuckerberg’s video about getting his daughter vaccinated was a lie to convince people that vaccines are safe but he knows that they aren’t.

But also, the relationship between thimerosal is like the relationship between drinking alcohol and rubbing alcohol.

I babysat my neighbor’s baby with a SIDS alarm that would go off if the baby stopped breathing. They forgot to tell me. Of course it went off and my husband and I (whose kids pre-date such devices) couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so we just took it off her. Parents get home and they were so sorry they forgot to…

Way better than this piece of... art?

Sanders supporters are always complaining how he has been ignored by the media but they don't realize that's actually how he got this far.

In 2004 she and Tim Robbins cut to the front of a line snaking out the door of the McBurney Y all the way to 14th Street in order to vote.

Jon Lovitz sounds like an unpleasant man. But when I was in my early twenties I dated an overweight balding man who was in his late 40s. I really liked him and that can count for a lot.

When I was 16 and I went to visiting day at my little brother’s sleep away camp, my mom was straggling behind us a little at check-in, and the counselor checking families in thought I was his wife. My dad was 50.

Sort of. Like I see his picture and I have this unsettling spike of nostalgia. I mean... at least he wasn’t a vulgarian? But then my conscious mind takes over and I use him as a standard to measure Cruz and Trump against and I know they would be worse and I panic. What about you?