Huh, good call. Apparently, that was his dad and this is Cyrus Vance, Jr.

Today was a bit of a bummer because Ruth Rendell died; she was a fairly prolific English mystery/thriller writer that I was deeply addicted to for years. I was never big into her main detective, Chief Inspector Wexford, but her stand-alone novels are pretty amazing. She has this amazing, gorgeous touch of thinking…

“Thanks, brah.”

In the past, Walker has made it clear that he opposes all abortions, even as a life-saving measure. A screaming twelve-year-old could be hemorrhaging to death, and as long as that fetus has a heartbeat, he’d look into her eyes and tell her, “This is what God wanted when he let your daddy rape you, honey.”

My vote is for Wallis Simpson.

Helen Mirren’s down with it.

Whoa, there!

The sad thing is that I already knew what this phrase meant because of Rennie Gibbs, the teenager who had a stillbirth due to umbilical cord strangulation, but who was charged with depraved-heart murder because she took cocaine during her pregnancy.

And yet people still think The Notebook is a romantic movie.

Also, of course, notice the Catholic hospital in the lower right-hand corner.

Let’s go black Russian for the codpiece; that always terrifies the clergy!

“We still believe that all women who use contraceptives are filthy, damned whores, so we refuse to pay for it on our employees’ insurance. Those filthy sluts can pay for it themselves and rot in hell like the filth they are. But we’re terribly concerned they’re not being respected by these nude men.”

I’ve never been comfortable with feminine clothes or femininity, and never really learned how to sit in a skirt without showing off my underwear. I can barely do makeup and, when it’s on, it’s limited to eyeliner, blush, and lipstick (which I chew off in about ten minutes). I wear varieties of subdued pants, jersey…

I would be more supportive of the school if they had turned this into a decision about next year. There’s so little time left in this school year that it seems unnecessarily disruptive to the kid’s education to make this choice now, particularly with a student who needs extra accommodation for her circumstances.…

You know they have a new CEO, right?

I was thinking, “Uh-oh, better do a head count of all the kids in the Pitt-Jolie clan.”

I genuinely cannot think of a holiday I care less about than Flag Day; it seems like a really base kind of tribalism to me. I’m perfectly happy to respect Veterans’ Day or Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, but it’s seriously a piece of cloth. That people will apparently attack you for standing on . . . but somehow…

Uh, actually, Sessions is referring to immigration. Note the “denigrate Congress” part.

It’s cracking me up that just stepping on one grossed you out. During the tenure at my janitorial jobs, I handled so very many of the things. Sometimes with gloves on, sometimes without gloves when the used condoms were in surprising places that I didn’t think I needed gloves for. Way farthest from the grossest thing…