Gillibrand gave a good speech the day before she was the first to publicly call for Franken’s resignation (as she said afterwards, no one ever benefitted from calling for the resignation of a man who is good at his day job, but we must do it anyway), where she said we can’t look at it as a spectrum- this thing is…

I think maybe you missed the “Ninth Woman Accuses Al Franken of Touching Her Inappropriately” headlines from just a month or so ago? Repeat: NINTH. As in, only one less than double digits.

No kidding. My kid’s school does a yearly festival and one of the activities is the “ER” station, where kids can get fake injuries painted on. When it was first proposed, I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard of, and now, a few years later and oodles of kids running around the festival with fake…

As the saying goes, money can’t buy good taste, but it sure does amplify the taste one already has.

Thank you for pointing that out. I was in a rage about it yesterday and today but you make a really good point.  Some judges, they are smart.

That article she wrote was so disappointing and made me really reevaluate the rest of her work, which sucks, because I was once a big fan. Much as I was once a big fan of Al Franken, come to think of it.

I agree that it’s at least as much about attacking Gillibrand (crazy that she’s the only one who gets any flack, seeing as how many other Senators also called for his resignation), but I disagree that she’s a moderate.  Even when she was repping a very conservative district, her voting record wasn’t “that”…

Listen, whippersnapper, we Gen-Xers were reading VC Andrews while you were still in diapers.

This was a beautiful piece. I’m so sorry for your loss, and for your brother’s unhappiness about things over which he had no control. It’s so frustrating to see it in so many men- that, even in the midst of their unhappiness and insecurity, they can’t recognize that patriarchy is doing this- that it’s bad for men, to…

I’d figured out Cole was dead from the first episode when Joanie said, “I miss my dad.” Having lost both parents, I know that particular inflection.  I liked the reveal because for me, it tied into Mare Winningham’s speech to him at the end of Season 4- that he would live to be old.

“At what point does someone say: ‘Stop, we are coming across as racists?”

That KTUU piece linked in the article is pretty good. I can be skeptical of local TV news, but it hit all the right points- especially when the coach interviewed talked about the terrible things adults said about the girls.  Creeps.

I confess, I’m liking this final season. I really, really miss Joshua Jackson, though (Ruth Wilson, at least, got a great send-off), and I hope we find out how Cole’s life played out. I have grown attached to the characters, and Noah’s absolute lack of character growth doesn’t bother me, as I buy it. The other…

She’s had work done. Not that I have any issue with people having work done, but clearly work is the only way to escape the Trump chin:

I almost burst into tears the first time I watched the trailer for this and she appeared. I cannot wait.

I read that interview, too, I think. I remember the writer saying she’d grown up onscreen; she was a pro and while she could be late, she always showed up with her lines memorized and the rest of the cast, who weren’t as experienced, hated her for it.

Although he’s apparently no great guy himself, Bill Murray was awfully good at the non-profanity insult. During a fight he once called Chevy Chase, “medium talent!” and, according to Richard Dreyfuss, once shouted at him, “No one here likes you! You are tolerated!”

I think it’s a kid reaction to things, too; they just don’t tend to get weepy over fiction. I didn’t know anything about Little Women when I read it as a kid and I didn’t cry over Beth, either. As an adult, though, it gets me. But then again, the last lines of Black Beauty get me now, too. I was a stoic child but…

John Rogers.  His Twitter feed is amazing and everyone should follow it. He also coined the Crazification Factor, back when he had his Kung Fu Monkey blog.

I hope you’re not using that as an emotional support animal. I’ve heard they don’t care.