Just wait. Somehow this will be Huma’s fault. “Why hasn’t she taken her son and left?” “A good mother would have left the campaign trail and come home.” “Benghazi!”

don’t worry, Huma is still getting blamed PLENTY for having a job and expecting the father of her child to parent her child.

Talking about this with a friend this morning, we speculated this might be a good thing for Huma. She works full-time in what’s clearly a pretty demanding job, while he’s basically a SAHD. In theory, Weiner could make a solid argument for primary physical custody with Huma paying him child support. Which would…

This is bad but my first thought was “finally a father’s bad parenting is getting some outrage.”

Pretty sure the issue is that the cops did a thing.

Why is that an “issue,” though?

It looks like she totally did and I find that adorable.

I honestly can’t figure out what the problem is supposed to be here. Apparently we’re meant to be upset that she’s holding hands with a cop, and that cops made a goofy reference to her lyrics.

They have escorted the BeeGees, The Rolling Stones, Cher, Aerosmith, The Beatles, David Bowie, Boy George, etc. and now this is an issue?

When I saw her perform in August, she seemed so warm, happy and loving to all types of people. She had just celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary and told a few stories about that. Every story she told left her as the butt of the joke. I came away thinking there couldn’t be a mean bone in her body. That’s always the…

So asking about how she’s an advocate means that you then pick apart how she described her advocacy because she may not have used the ‘correct’ tone or terminology and she talked too much about herself? This is why people who come from a place of privilege (through money, gender, race, or orientation and/or all those…

You know, not all allies are gonna be perfect and use the perfect words and be 100% humble. I think there are a lot of other 70 year old people out there being excused for their ignorance and I think it’s rad that instead, Dolly is using her platform and relative security to help. She's a hero to a lot of people that…

Is it self-aggrandizing? Sure, perhaps a little bit. But she’s answering a question; she was *specifically asked* about it.

But in this instance, she was asked a specific question: “Because you’ve always been so LGBT-affirming, are you a safe place for them to open up about their sexuality?”

FIRST DANCE AT MY WEDDING.

Really? Because I think country music in particular needs to hear a lot of this. There are still millions of young people who are at risk of violence, homelessness, and self-harm because of their shitty parents, family, and peers. People using their platforms to support others is just about the best use of celebrity I…

Tough to do when an interviewer is only asking about your politics and views on the LGBTQ community.

Hopefully I’m able to help.

Well, to be fair, I don’t think any young man in American could really be in the closet anymore after his parents find a Dolly Parton CD under his bed. So I guess she’s kind of right.

She released a song called “Potential New Boyfriend.” It might or might not have helped gay men come out, but it certainly entered the gay male lexicon. Talking to a friend in a gay bar: “Excuse me, I’m going to go over there. I think I see my potential new boyfriend.”