I am not in the military, but I know a handful of dudes who were recently in it or who work for the Pentagon now. All of them are lifelong Republicans. All of them are utterly horrified by this administration and think it will get many people (American and foreign) needlessly killed.

I don’t know if it’s a consensus…

Yup. My sense was he was trying to get her to acknowledge that “Yup. Something’s wrong here,” before he actually interrupted the show to ask, but she didn’t notice what he did and just blurted out the name and then there wasn’t much he could do.

I’m just guessing, obviously, but the “Best Actress” part is smaller and at the bottom. I question whether an old man who is not wearing his glasses could read that part. Plus, he’s expecting it to say the name of the Best Film award and with that “fact” as the default in his mind, it may not have occurred to him that…

To be fair, I feel like you could pick any random person off the street and there’s a 90% chance they would be a better president than Trump. Most of the homeless guys in my ‘hood would be better, if only because they would at least acknowledge they are in over their heads and listen to more experienced people.

In all seriousness, I think he probably didn’t want it to seem like this was one of his pranks, and bringing the Damon feud into it would make it seem like they had planned it. It was the right call under the circumstances, even if it was the less amusing one.

I’d vote for him. He gets shit done.

I’m not sure he knew *what* was wrong — just that something with the card was off and WTF do I do if the card is not 100% accurate?

The Jez article by Rich? Because he is being ripped to shreds in the comments -- rightfuly so -- for basically painting the La La Land folks as the bad guys here when they were put in an unwinnable position through no fault of their own.

Right. He clearly is aware that something is amiss, but I don’t think he knows what — does he have the wrong card, did the card mistakenly have the actress’ name instead of the producers, is something else going on? He sees it’s not fully correct, but isn’t sure *what* is wrong, so he stalls for time and tries to get…

Kimmel is a prankster, but he would not do this unless he wanted to make sure his turn hosting the Oscars was known for a massive, humiliating Flub of All Flubs, thus ensuring he never gets another hosting gig.

You expect more from Jez?

Yeah, he was the epitome of class, grace and professionalism at a moment that must have been very emotional and confusing for him. No dithering about hoping the news turns back in your favor or whatever (which, if I’m being honest is probably what I would have done). He saw it was wrong and he was ON IT.

Well, that’s just not natural.

Do you really think a three or four year old is capable of deciding they want to live life as the opposite gender? There is a big difference between “figuring out gender stuff” as you put it and deciding you are in the wrong type of body.

Yeah, I have no doubt that at at certain age kids have a pretty good idea if they are trans or not. But I’ve seen stories about kids who are 3-6 years old being identified as trans. Maybe they are. But I have an almost 3 year old who sometimes identifies as Cookie Monster or dinosaurs. I’m pretty sure that’s just a…

Community policing is great. Unfortunately, it does not work retroactively...

You understand that the cops *did* investigate and reached a dead end, yes? And that they likely have other crimes to investigate and can’t put a special task force in place to spend months looking into a single case of vandalism?

Why would you assume anyone besides the actual vandal knows? People don’t generally make a point to stare at their neighbor’s houses all night long to make sure nothing happens.

We have gas, but also in our city, all the lines are underground. We don’t lose power from weather — just from the occasional transformer blowing. I realize that makes us part of a fortunate minority. 

Eggs and milk are also things you can go through pretty fast if you do lose power without making the same thing over and over. If I make french toast for breakfast, egg salad for lunch, chocolate milk for a snack and any number of milk- or egg-involved dinner entrees I can go through a dozen eggs, most of a carton of…