I get that. I started running in college when it was a big fad and kept at it doggedly through the years. Ran every day when training for marathons but dropped off in between, never as much or as fast as I wanted (but in retrospect, pretty fast). In later years I started going to the gym to even up the muscle fitness.…

I’m not going to stop punching myself in the face until you stop calling me an idiot.

“I believe the Podesta sex ring is real.”

I hate the sound of his voice, his physical gestures and his features. He’s a terrible speaker with a limited vocabulary. I can’t listen to him without being embarrassed for him. I don’t know how other people hear that as a firm commanding voice but I suppose they do.

It wasn’t the Obama administration that wanted you to take a part time or contract position. It was big business. The Trump administration is not going to tell employers what kinds of contracts they have to offer, and the new head of the Department of Labor is not going to be friendly towards labor. Workers will be…

Josh, references to the typical liberal leave me cold. There are no typical liberals or conservatives either, as the responses to HamNo show. I disagree with Yancy that the respondents are dumb (with some exceptions). Their responses were thoughtful and enlightening. They are, however, sadly mistaken.

Ha ha ha. My advice, gingerhammered: don’t do your own taxes.

No provincial or local taxes? Not arguing, just curious.

How does it feel, Curt, to know that your hero, the president-elect, will think of you as a loser if you don’t get into the Hall? Sad.

Porn is just one example of readily available images and messages that can have harmful effects: fight videos, violence in movies and video games, violent, sexist and racist language in music, racist, sexist and anti-semitic lies passed along on the internet, and vile conspiracy theories. What we need is not a fatwa…

Scratch and sniff? No. Might be a little muskie.

Woman second from left looks like she’s holding her pet carp. “I’m training him for a new attraction in Bad Hamburg — Swim with Carp. Isn’t he a liebchen?”

No, wait. What does “P.s. we can call you for the new shooting” mean if not that they are inviting you to model? Maybe for a private label calendar.

I sort of don’t understand this. They open people’s chests and separate the two halves of the breastbone with a vise (reverse vise?) during open heart surgery. Why can’t they find a similarly effective combination of sedative and anesthetic to execute someone? I’m opposed to execution, but why is this such a hard…

The conspiracy theorists are killing the children a second time with their denial, so it shouldn’t be that much of a stretch to imagine how someone could have killed them the first time.

The Russians have taught me to reserve judgment on every awful thing I see on the internet.

What if being a rich white lady didn’t disqualify you from having ideas, like creating the SPUG campaign to give workers cover for not spending two weeks’ salary on their bosses? Rich white ladies weren’t smarter than working class mothers but, like the celebrities of today, they had a bully pulpit to spread the word.…

Well said, Capers. As for Baio: “Scott, your candidate hasn’t won yet but will probably win the electoral vote. Now sit down and let the adults talk. Among other things, we’ll discuss, not what you call the ‘antics of Russia,’ but the threat of cyberwarfare on the U.S. political process and other U.S. interests.…

I see Manson as head of the CIA or other spy agency.

It feels as though accusations of sexual or domestic abuse have lost their power to shock, like too many hot peppers in one meal. Our President-elect has normalized it, and now he and the other abusers he surrounds himself with can bask in a collective glow of dignity and respect. That? Boys will be boys. Now, if you…