Streep graduated from Yale in 1975, worked on the NY stage in the same year, and had her first Tony nomination in 1976. First Oscar nomination in 1978, first win in 1979...which is the same year the Weinstein brothers founded Miramax -as a film distributorship.

Oh, honey, your doctors do not want to prescribe anti-anxiety medication for you because it isn’t really a treatment for situational panic. Do you live near a teaching hospital? If you do, call in or get suggestions from friends for a good, young internist or even a cardiologist. Tell them that you recently started…

I’m in Texas, too. I call Cruz, and then I donate money to Beto O’Rourke. No one likes Ted Cruz, and I want to see him lose his damn seat.

Dude, I’m from Texas. Cruz, Cornyn and my rep DO NOT CARE about the country. They only care about the party and power. Calling never does any good.

Really? Mueller’s ship has been extremely tight. We only knew about the Manafort indictment like a day before. There was no word of Papadopoulos or Flynn’s guilty plea until the FBI decided we should know.

CAN’T YOU LET US BE HAPPY FOR ONE DAMN MINUTE?!?

Yes.

I was a political science major, and I have been doing a lot of thinking about what a Jones upset would mean. It’s pretty significant, and requires a fair amount of nuanced thinking. So I apologize in advance if this gets kind of dense and long, but here’s the analysis of someone who studies and thinks about this…

I hate to admit it, but SHS is really really good at her job. She can tell the lies with a straight face, and convincingly act offended when the administration gets called out on pretty much anything. I’ve rarely seen her get ruffled. I have to hand it to her for nailing the skills necessary in that position, and in…

This reminds me of that roast of Ann Coulter where so many just resorted to “lol horse face ugly lady” instead of poking at any of the incredibly low-hanging fruit that Ann Coulter offers.

#8 made me cry.

Me too; I was always the glass-half-fullest guy around. But I guess my colleagues have been noticing a change of late. So much so that I arrived at my office this morning to see this plastic sign that one of my staff had made up for me:

Does anyone think Trump has ever been to the wilderness and wondered at the beauty of nature? If he’s ever outside the city, he’s somewhere which is, or will shortly be ruined to become, a golf course.

I’m higher up, and honestly I couldn’t care less about a reduction in my tax bill. Fix public education and health care, then get to the taxes. I’d rather pay more if it leads to centralized health care and better education/college loan systems.

Democratic house selects Hillary for the speaker position, before beginning impeachment proceedings against Trump and Pence......

Trump children first, Sessions last.

My name is there for net neutrality, and somebody with my name from another state posted a form letter against the Obama administration’s “overreach” and against net neutrality.

Every time I visit home (a rare and happy occasion) there’s always a dark cloud looming above me as I look around and frown.... “How the fuck am I going to sort through all this fucking stuff, holy fuck.”

So my mom died very unexpectedly this year, and I had to deal with the 30+ years of stuff in her house. This included two entire sets of good china, a set of Christmas china, and about a thousand little knick knacks. We kept everything that had a story (“Great so-and-so carried that tea set in her lap from New York to…

One reason the Republicans are getting away with dismantling not only our democracy, but all of the regulations and protections it has enabled (from Social Security to public employee unions to fire safety regs) is that so few people are alive today who can remember the world as it was before.