Later, the GOP tweeted out a sketch of Ted Cruz when he was a hottie.

Can anyone who knows the ins and outs explain why he’s no longer at Nerdist and its parent company? Wishful thinking to think they got wise and let him go?

No. The problem is not that girls are normal young people who want relationships. That is normal for human beings. The problem isn’t that girls just need to work harder on their self esteem. The problem is THE BOYS. THE MEN. What our society is teaching them, as well as girls, about what boys and men are owed, what…

“Me-sa gonna stick something up your butt, Christian”

I was at an event with Hoda that involved taking a bus from a meeting point to the event itself. She waited in line like the rest of us non-celebs, never complained about the wait, chatted with everyone, could not have been nicer. Very happy for her. Nice people deserve nice things to happen for them.

The Hoda I know would probably hug you. It’s best you didn’t. We shouldn’t take advantage of our beloved’s kindness. But she probably would have. Once I was in an elevator with her and she offered me a piece of candy because she was having one. I kid you not. And it doesn’t come off as broken nice or like insecure…

TRUE STORY: I work in Rock Center but NOT for NBC and a colleague of mine had a broken leg. One day she was struggling down the street on crutches past 30 Rock and Hoda walked out to get in her black car. Hoda did NOT know my colleague, but because Hoda is a dream, she gave my colleague her black car and told it to…

The biggest gift my family ever gave me was that fully 50% of each generation don’t get married and become kickass uncles and aunts, for something like four generations now. So I was raised in an environment where being an old single was never “the wrong path” or some sort of lingering doom.

There’s a lot more going on with his suicide than just him being exposed as a rapist. I say this because there is going to be an avalanche of blame (and harassment and worse) directed at his victim. Before he blessedly relieved the Earth of his presence, a local public radio station was publishing an ongoing…

According to the NY Times (as of a few minutes ago), roughly 22,000 voters wrote in another candidate. I’m assuming these voters are staunch republicans with some conscience left in them — which begs the question: what does that say about the moral compass of the 639,000 people who voted for Roy Moore?

Alabama shows it has a tiny amount of basic human decency left by not electing a child molester to the Sentate by the thinnest of margins.

i kept watching the NYT feed, which was just basically a constant “WAIT FOR IT”...

Birmingham swooping in for the save. I felt tears in my eyes when I saw it.

Holy shit. It was not fun watching Roy Moore hold a lead for the entire night. Though it was satisfying to have it reverse with less than 10% of precincts left. Huzzah for meeting some basic level of human decency in Alabama.

I had a very strange complication with my last birth: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. No one listened to me when I described my symptoms in the hospital (one of the biggest and best in the country, btw) after delivering a very healthy baby following a very healthy and uneventful pregnancy. I was discharged but at home, my…

Despite great unfortunate stuff going on with your health, you had the extraordinary response of courageously facing down a lousy legislator who didn’t have the wherewithal even to talk to his constituents except if you call employing a “goon squad” a form of communication.

Thank you for your courage and moral backbone. We all need to rise to this occasion and you are a sterling example to the rest of your fellow citizens.

Thank you. Thank you for standing up and (metaphorically) making noise. You are one of the good people making sure that the GOP *has* to be faced with their own lies and bullshit.