This gives me hope that one day, Barron may be a dreadlocked budtender freeganing his way through Tucson and giving long rambling interviews to whoever will buy him a beer.

I think that the point is that he has a shit ton of power and a giant wagon of money and could deliberately make great movies starring women. I read memoirs and have thought that several amazing stories about women who fought and survived the holocaust would be well told by Spielberg. And not just women in war but…

Sugarland Express with Goldie Hawn, The Color Purple, The BFG has a female protagonist, and his upcoming The Papers with Meryl Streep.

This isn’t preventing her from speaking or, given her history of racist comments, an artist lashing out at a bad review. No one has a right to the platform of theater critic for one of the major newspapers in Chicago, just as no one has a right to free theater tickets. I get that she will be out of a job, but why…

You can fuck right off with this bullshit. This isn’t just a matter of opinion. What she has said has been racially offensive. Theatre is too important, and quite frankly, too expensive to be giving an asshole free tickets. She can’t do her job? Oh, well, let me give you some news: She hasn’t done her job in 20+…

“There are so many stories about race and gender it’s sickening. Why not show a story I can relate to, like a stage adaptation of Birth of a Nation?”

Yeah, I’d be a lot more hesitant if they were calling on her to be banned from the theater, or fired from her job. Not inviting her and not giving her a free ticket? That’s pretty much the perfect response, frankly.

Ugh! Can we stop with this ridiculous idea of hoping that singers and actors are anything more than their craft? How much of this “race to be woke” is the performers’ fault versus our own consumer habits and music industry profits?

It says something about us as a people that we seem to be holding a bubblegum pop artist to a higher standard of behavior and sensitivity that we do the president.

I go back and forth on this because everything you said above is correct, but I also think there’s something to be said for just showing this graduating class, and the class that comes after, that at least applying to college is a good next step. Even if they don’t get in, even if they don’t go, even if they go and…

This is a terrifying blow to democracy and should be the top story in every major news outlet, but it will be virtually ignored by most and celebrated by many.

It’s pretty clear from the fact that her ex-husband is still an active part of her lives, and her kids love Abby Wambach and they are all co-coaching their middle-child’s soccer team this year that the kids are going to be alright. She does touch a little bit on how important it was for her to keep the family together…

NO NO NO STOP. I understand that there is a curve for government officials and this man seems intelligent and sane and anyone who can take down this shit sandwich of a corrupt administration is bangable like, by definition now, but just no. Also it is continually baffling to me how height alone is a major factor in…

That was months prior to the incident I’m talking about, which was a week before the election and was acknowledged to be against all protocol by even him.

Bullshit. Going to the public like that right before the election was completely against FBI and DOJ protocol. He wasn’t doing his job. That was against the standards of his job. He wanted to look tough to his intelligence friends.

There are days I hate the man and days that I think he’s a decent human being.

In these troubled times, our standards for “really smart” are as skewed as our standards for hot.

There was literally a moment when he was walking in the room that I thought, “Wait, is Comey kind of hot?” I think it was the height thing. But then he said his age and I was like, “Aghh, he’s almost as old as my parents, no, no, no.”

She’s not my cup of tea, but I do think her piece on the days being long and the years being short helped lots of people reconcile the grind of small children with loving those children.

I’m very late to the Momastery revolution. I read her Love Warrior book after the divorce was made public and she makes my roll my eyes so hard but then every so often there’s a little nugget that makes me think about something in an entirely new way. So I got her first book from the library and it’s really really…