Agreed. I really don’t understand the point of this meandering essay. She never explicitly states she's socially liberal, but I guess that's what we're suppose to infer ("Hey guys, I live in San Francisco!"). Is the take away: ' hey, it's not an awful place if you ignore a lot of our stances on many social issues and…

Hmm...I can't decide if in my mind this cancels out that infamous horrific tantrum Bale had on set a handful of years back.

Remember all the early conspiracy theories regarding Trump's run about it all being a conspiracy with Hillary's camp to get Hillary elected? Good times.

Byrne was a guest once at a Crowded House concert I went to with my friend who's a hardcore CH fan. Byrne was by far the biggest highlight of an otherwise good concert. Afterward my friend and I were hanging outside the venue because she hoped to meet Neil Finn. Instead, we bumped into David Byrne who was unlocking…

I’m no lawyer but this is an area I do know well. There’s almost always carve-outs in NDAs that allows for disclosure when compelled/required/requested by legal authorities. So, it all comes down to how the wording was crafted, but I’m sure the argument will be that Constand’s disclsoure to legal authorities somehow…

I will call it Eliza with a “Z”!

Yes, Eliza does get the last word but because all of her previous songs are all in reaction to what Hamilton does and says for the whole of the previous two and half hours, her big moment felt very jarring and shoe-horned in. I understand that Miranda is handicapped by the scant biographical details of Eliza’s life…

If he follows the great Stephen Sondheim's example, Miranda will film this production for broadcasting on PBS. I doubt it'll happen because there's too much money to be made, but it would be a treasured and timeless gift for all.

Well, the opening number does tell you all you need to know about the female characters in the musical. The Bechdel Test it does not pass. Overall I’m glad I didn’t sell my tix for a small fortune, but I can’t shake the disappointment that such a smart show reduces all of its women (some of which made some great…

I did this therapy recently for 12 or so sessions. While it was somewhat helpful, it didn't address the underlying issue caused by hormone blocking. Instead of continuing with PT I decided (after consulting a few of my doctors) to use non-estrogen localized hormonal treatment. I'm cautious to even say this aloud…

What?! How in my almost 40 years never seen this bizarrely cute animal before? I want to know more about Banana and his kinkajou brethren.

I guess she’s prominately mentioned, but she’s not at all a fleshed out in the book. I’ve read the book a few times. I find it (and all stuff written about the crisis) fascinating because it’s a world I know. The book kickstarts with Meredith’s involvement as a sort of whistleblower of the impending subprime meltdown,…

I know it's absolutely impossible to point toward never having breastfeed as an absolute causual link to breast cancer, but I wonder what the number women who supposedly got BC because of an abortion vs. the number of women who died in childbirth (and/or suffered horrible complications) because they were harrassed…

Right on! The fire for my hatred of Ralph Fucking Nader is eternal. I think periodical Nader venting is healthy.

I didn’t know this. I’m glad he’s doing this, but as Trevor Noah recently discussed in this PCHH/NPR interview with Linda Holmes, there needs to be active recruitment instead of this passive kind. Noah has this very insightful and touching, to me anyway, anecdote about recently meeting up with long time black comedian…

This I know. I was being sarcastic. But I do bet that ER has seen its share of semen from unsavory individuals - billowing sheeted rooms be damned! Truly, that place is gross!

I had to spend a lovely 9 hours at Mt. Sinai's ER about two years ago. I will never go back to that ER. It's disgusting. But the quoted portions are correct in that there really was no privacy at all in that place. There are no separate rooms. It's just thin veils of billowing curtained off "rooms." I have no idea…

Oh, going down all the various Jezzie hypocritical roads will only lead to madness. My favorite Jezzie nonsensical hate-on is Dan Savage. Despite all of his activism and being a strong voice for ALL of the LGBT and all women he's reduced down to: "He said that one thing that one time. I hate him!"

I LOVE Beth and I love that she has made Howard a cat guy.

Yay, good for her! And I’m very glad she has a relatively long time to prepare and process this. One of the awful things about getting diagnosed with breast cancer is that you have such a short amount of time to decide what kind of breast surgery to have. I had a really hard time coming to my decision in short amount…