Because the antidote to an unqualified celebrity in the White House is another unqualified celebrity?

My favorite moment from this Saturday’s SNL was in the opening where they had Lester Holt interviewing Trump and Trump admitted to something and Lester just looks at the camera and goes, “Wait, did I get him? Is that it? Are we done? What? None of this matters? Oh, ok.” and just continues with the interview. I feel…

And once again, my father, who, as I have said before on other posts, predicted Trump’s nomination, win, and Russian connections (“there are too many Russians in this campaign”), was right - he also predicted that Trump would blab top secret information to either reporters or foreign countries. He’s been right about…

Is anyone else concerned that our allies may limit the intelligence they share with us, especially now that Trump has admitted giving classified info to the Russians?

When I was in my 2o’s, I had a cute butt, perky tits and tiny waist. (But no silicone tits right under my chin.) Now I’m almost 67. After two pregnancies and a hard bout with breast cancer 18 year ago, I have a saggy ass, thick waist, poochy tummy and lopsided boobs. I still go to the gym to increase my muscle mass,…

What I think is so crazy is that by far the best chance at stopping abortion - or at least stopping a lot of abortions - is what liberals have been pushing for years. Universal healthcare so everyone can have access to affordable birth control. Sex education, so people know where to get BC and how to use it.…

What it lacks in flash, it makes up for by being rather unimpeachable.

and they’re protected by the tacit understanding that nobody is really disrupting anything.

“Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”

Even if it was true that no one ever died because they didn’t have health insurance (which is idiotic on its face), lots of people have escaped declaring bankruptcy because they DID have health insurance. You’d think this argument alone would be enough to make them vote no on their dumb legislation this week:

People do die. Lots of people. People also lose their life savings. Some decades ago I had a neighbor who moved to Honolulu to start a dream job who had a heart attack within the first six weeks he was there, before his job-related insurance covered him. Two weeks in the ICU ran the bill into the hundreds of thousands…

I’ve been wondering this too. What will be the “thing” that flips the switch?

Helen Mirren as Ariadne Oliver!

Branagh’s, I think, trying to amp up the eccentric look of Poirot, whilst also making him more youthful and athletic seeming.

This! Poirot’s fussiness would never allow him to have his tie askew, or - mon dieu! - that attached collar! He was certainly still in stiff, removable (but never ever in public) collars.

HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, 2017, AT LONG LAST
HAVE YOU LEFT NO SENSE OF DECENCY

There is a detective from the Agatha Christie oeuvre for whom Branagh’s look would be appropriate: Sven Hjerson, the fictional Finnish detective created by Ariadne Oliver (Christie’s avatar within her own novels, which is some pomo shit when you really think about it).

No, worries, mademoiselle, the oldest hipster in Brooklyn is on the case.

“But consider, Hastings. The absurd fake mustaches...the ridiculous goatee...the supremely obvious wig. Such a childish effort to alter his appearance! Could it be that we were meant to write him off, to dismiss his disguise as too obviously a disguise?”

My family has been involved in policing for generations. My great uncle was the first black police officer in the town I grew up in.