Listen: if you gals can’t stop poppin’ babies out your pooper (or wherever they come from), it’s up to the men-folk to restore some order.

I’m going to ask a stupid question, so I apologize in advance: would there be a benefit to using both Tor and a VPN? Or do they both do the same thing?

One of my eighth graders came up to me today and said, “Mr. P., I saw Trump at the wax museum.”
Me: “Oh?”
Eighth grader: “Yeah. <leaning in closer, whispering conspiratorially> His hands really are that small.”

What the Times means is that Trump will say that, if they don’t pass the American Health Care Act, Obamacare will remain the law of the land but that, actually, if they don’t pass the American Health Care Act, Republicans will continue to try to rip healthcare from the cold, nearly-dead hands of 24 million Americans…

Oh, come now. Why can’t it be both?

I just got back from a trip in which I made a stopover in the Atlanta airport. There are giant, multi-lingual signs everywhere—bathrooms, escalators, in the terminals—warning flyers to keep an eye out for victims of sex trafficking and offering services to victims who might be in the airport against their will. It’s…

I still do.

I’m currently writing a young adult novel in which the main characters are all in eighth grade, and my across-the-street neighbor’s fourteen-year-old son, Jack, is texting me every day to ask “When are you going to finish?” In any case, one of the tidbits I’ve pulled from Jack (I’m a middle school teacher myself, but…

I’ll second that. I saw it in a theater filled with patrons aged 14-75, and everyone took something away from it. It was glorious.

Not only Mr. Peele: I hope that Mr. Kaluuya, Ms. Williams, Mr. Whitford, and Ms. Keener all have points and make a fucking mint. (And don’t forget Stephen Root, too, whose character in Get Out might finally allow him to move on from being known solely as the “Who stole my stapler?” guy from Office Space.)

It put me in mind of the end of Carrie, when Piper Laurie’s character dies with that beatific smile on her face. (Knowing Mr. Peele and his love of horror movies, that might have been his intention!)

It’s really a stunning movie. I’ll be back to see it again in the theater.

There are several jump scares, and the third act has some of the kind of gore you’d expect from a Blumhouse movie. But I was surprised: the theater tonight was filled with people aged 14-80, and I sat next to a couple in their 60s who were absolutely raving about the film. Yes, there are some parts in which you might…

It was tremendous. I caught flashes of Cronenberg, Rosemary’s Baby, Spike Lee, Keenen Ivory Wayans. There was so much good stuff going on—I’ll have to see it again. Highly, highly recommended.

Sitting in a movie theater and waiting for the 7:35 showing of “Get Out.” Finally!

Me too. Malloy’s new budget is a mess, but I think it’ll all get worked out.

Our state’s attorney, Deirdre Daly, resigned on Friday. She has done an incredible job in Connecticut, working particularly hard to end human trafficking (particularly sex trafficking of children) and to address the opioid crisis, both here in Connecticut and throughout New England. Thankfully, her replacement served…

“Eagle” is always the answer.

I have a friend who worked on Wall Street in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The stories she tells about that period of time—stories about outright sexism, sexual assault, demeaning treatment, and roadblocks to opportunity—are real and chilling. My friend was, and is, fearless in the way that this ad campaign really,…

I’m surprised they didn’t build a “phone pen,” where the little rugrats can play on Mommy’s iPhone while not watching a movie their parents paid $7.50 for them not to see.