I, too, found myself laughing this week. Not because anything was funny, but because it was so far from funny. “Laugh to keep from crying” is the hoariest cliché imaginable; the phrase is so threadbare that it fails to convey that it feels like claws raking the inside of my throat. Without ever having raised my voice,…

Truth. I and the women in my life routinely use “it’s fine” as a phrase that means “it’s absolutely not fine, but it’s not worth the drama that the truth will bring up.”

Screw Flake! His speeches mean NOTHING when he votes with Trump! Good luck with that presidential campaign.

Why do I keep getting my hopes up that wrongs will be righted only to have them soul crushingly destroyed time and time again.

Yeah, and I played sports in High School too. Guess what, the portion of people playing that were assholes was exactly that same as non-sports people, and none of them were changed by sports. 

I cringed so hard watching that exchange yesterday. And while he SHOULD apologize, his apology came after a 15 minute break where someone probably coached him, and made him out to be an upstanding guy. It glosses over the original exchange where he was totally out of line and frankly, extremely immature. He was trying…

It’s not so much an indictment of athletics, but the idea that his participating in athletics is somehow an argument against him being a huge asshole.

Too much power is as corrosive as not enough power. If you’ve never, ever had to be accountable for anything serious, it’s hard to suddenly learn when you’re in middle aged. If Kav had been caught and punished, even mildly, for some of this shit when he was HS or college, he might have grown up to a better person.

COMPASSIONATE ALCOHOLIC WAR CRIMINAL STOPS PAINTING PORTRAITS OF DOGS TO FLACK FOR ANGRY ENTITLED TEENAGE SEX TERRORIST

I want to believe that an investigation would matter, but I also know that the only way it would matter is if Kavanaugh withdraws his own name from consideration. The Republicans have all lined up publicly to proclaim that they were committed yes votes, and have long sense abandoned any effort at pretending this is…

LOOK AT ALL THE PRIVILEGE I WAS BORN INTO AND LISTEN TO THE PRIDE IN MY VOICE AS I EMPHATICALLY TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE PRIVILEGE I WAS BORN INTO. BITSY AND MUFFY, WHO WENT TO HOLY SACRED BLEEDING HEART OF THE BLESSED FLOWERING VIRGIN, WILL TELL YOU I’M A GOOD MAN. NOW I’LL PRETEND THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE VERY ACT…

He’s not actually that rich.  A nasty gambling habit will do that even to those with lifetime six-figure salaries.

Weepy Asshole is good/terrible name for a band.

Like a true tough guy, Kavanaugh mentioned his mom, his wife and his daughter (who happened to say Dr. Ford’s name during her bedtime prayers last night!) in the first part of his opening statement. I’m not sure if that was before or after he blamed Democrats for all of his problems because it made me so angry, I…

Right? And his life is ruined? He could have just withdrawn his nomination and gone back to his cushy job as a federal judge. He has a lifetime appointment. He’s rich. He’s well connected. Oh, and he’s an accused rapist, but that doesn’t seem like a deal breaker for these people at all. 

Sniffing is not tears. Lots of sniffing.

Is that Alyssa Milano?