I don’t know if she was widely commended, but I thought Mira Sorvino did a good job with her statement. She copped to closing her eyes to rumors because she wanted the work; in the #MeToo aftermath, she asked Ronan Farrow for reliable reporting on his family’s case and she apologized to Dylan Farrow for being part of…

At the risk of being @ for days, if you are traveling with a large group, Cracker Barrel is the best chain for breakfast. And if you are old-ish, you can buy nostalgia candy/soda.

Same here.

Finally a diet that might work for me.

I hope he can be brought down so that his father can stop rolling in his grave, but I hope that the lesson is not that it takes a celebrity to bring down a political dynasty. My answer re polls here.

LOL, the last presidential election should have taught us to be wary of polls at any stage of a campaign. I gave a long answer to someone else that I’m not going to recreate here. I was responding to a commenter who said if they were Gillibrand they would wait for polling on Nixon before making an endorsement. I was…

I worked in politics for a long while and everyone thinks “polls don’t mean anything at this stage” all the while commissioning polls that they may or may not show to the public depending on what kind of press they can generate with it. . My response was to the “wait for some polling” comment and I was just pointing…

Unlike other state governors, Texas governors share power with other executive level politicians and, I believe, have less budgetary power. They aren’t powerless, but definitely more constrained. ETA: this relative lack of power really got played up when GWB was running for President.

Gillibrand: “You’d be a great President, but I’m going to be a better one.”

Cuomo is polling with 66% Democratic support over Nixon. I actually despise his whole schtick, but he has effectively stepped on anyone who is viable and qualified. Pretty sure the DiBlasio/Cuomo antipathy is all about political futures.

It doesn’t matter if its the intent of the law. The vast majority of women would like to have their kids in safe day care and are driven to informal arrangements because they can’t afford it. In a country without paid parental leave, laws that criminalize individual options without  appropriating money to help…

Didn’t you notice how much Claire Foy looked like the Queen at the awards shows?

It says to me that he didn’t grow up old-timey black Christian, where the only people who could be on the wall with Jesus were MLK and JFK.

Now that she is fair game, I just need to say that she doesn’t dress like someone who cares enough about appearances to be spendy on office furniture.

You are just piquing my curiosity: “Well let see how long it can hold together.”

But if the costumes cost a ton, it comes out of the woman’s salary. It’s like a rule. s/

Just out of curiosity, which anniversary are you saving it for?

This fooking country. Can’t get on the same page regarding a child care system or parental leave, but we certainly can make laws that almost guarantee sending more poor women to jail.

I also side-eyed that “ill thug” shit. In that enclave of UES young matrons and socialites, it maybe meant she went out once with a black/brown guy and she has a temper. Real Housewives material.

How do we do this, though?