I think disrupting hate rallies is actually the ONE thing clowns might be useful for https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/opinion/comedy-protest-taxes-nazis.html

This was oddly soothing!  Thank you!  (I still don’t see how the clumps of pages stuck together between the sections that got paper towels ended up not glommed together, but at least I know where to start...)

When I read the books for the first time back in the dark ages, it seemed clear to me (as a kid) that Laura was calling out Ma’s racism by offsetting it with Pa’s more easy going attitude and her own childish enthusiasm. (I see Pa’s attitude much more harshly as an adult, obviously, but I always thought it was…

I have no idea about Metcalf, but I recall listening to an NPR interview with Goodman a couple of years ago, in which he discussed his alcoholism during Roseanne, and Roseanne was somebody who confronted him about it at the time because she saw it was killing him. I don’t think it was an intervention that moved him to…

Did he leave his family that hard up for money? I understand selling stuff you don’t necessarily care about... but diary entries?

There was one set in colonial times as well that was pretty good. I remember a main takeaway was that the body odor that we all wonder about in the absence of modern toiletries ended up being pretty much eclipsed by the much more pleasant smell of burning wood, because summer or winter, wood was pretty much always…

Impregnate a woman (become a “potential” father, whatever), and tell us how you feel. But this incredibly LITERAL rendition of a WOMAN’S experience is waaaay beyond your depth.

“Anti-forced birth”

Teenagers did as they were told in the 60s?

A coworker had an ablation 10 years ago and said it’s the best thing she ever did — hope that helps!

I wonder where suicide/assisted suicide fits in. I’m in my mid-50s, basically healthy, and starting to focus more on maintaining a fitness/health level to keep me independent in my older years. I’m from a long line of realistic folks who opt out of extraordinary means at life’s end, so I have no doubt I would opt for…

There was a story I saw the other day from one of the major national papers about how the internet has enabled all the lone wolves to form packs. Guys who historically would probably never have overcome the inertia to do more than gripe internally now spend hours a day groupthinking with like minds, feeding off each…

Where is Camille, by the way?

I served on a jury and the judge gave the same instruction even though there wasn’t any kind of audience other than the parties involved and their immediate families. We found the defendant not guilty and the accuser burst into very loud sobs and the judge asked her to compose herself or leave the room.

I think she was a lower level nurse than an RN. Like a licensed practical nurse. Not dispensing medication or doing the more rigorous patient care.

I remember Paulina Porizkova telling David Letterman about how she was bullied (usual future model gawkiness combined with being an immigrant from a communist country), and the savage relish in her voice at how they must feel looking at her now. I loved that she didn’t gloss over it or pretend that it was all water…

I’m sure. And Christiane Amanpour (she and JFK Jr were college roommates).

If we weren’t living this Presidential nightmare 24/7/365 this trial definitely would have been the top story for months like OJ. Cosby lucked out in that department.

1981 hs graduate here, and was not aware of a single gay or lesbian student in our class (obviously there were!) This was suburban Massachusetts, not exactly the bible belt, and being “out” was not remotely a consideration at the time.   Has been amazing to watch society change this rapidly in my lifetime.

Years ago Swift referred to having security on account of multiple guys who sent her detailed “what I’ll do to you once I lock you in my basement” manifestos. While it is awful that women without her resources don’t get nearly enough assistance from the police and courts, I think we can also acknowledge that female…