C-SPAN is only active and streaming when the House is in session. This is a really important distinction. The Speaker can gavel the House out of session any time he wants, and the camera goes dark. That means that whenever any kind of dissent he wants to squash gets started, he can simply close the session and cut off…

She has a dance class every Saturday from 9am to noon.

I hear a lot of people saying “but Pence would be worse!” and I agree much more with your take. I don’t think he’d be worse. I think he’d be the same, but more easy to deal with. And less likely to blow us all off the face of the planet in a fit of impulsive rage. I am OK with fighting tyranny and oppression through…

All you need to know about military strategy is don’t blow people up unless and until there is absolutely no other option. And even then, think really carefully about it first.

The key is that you get to have sex when you want to (I am insanely jealous of that). For many couples, it doesn’t happen so organically anymore. I can’t have sex when I want to because my wife works full time, I work part time and go to law school, and we have a tween kiddo to cart here there and everywhere. We also…

This is the only reason we signed the kid up for a Saturday morning dance class. She’s out of the house from 9am to noon every week, and the Mrs. and I are at home with nothing else on the agenda. Otherwise, I don’t think we’d ever get laid.

There is something especially gross about the fact that this is Trump and that a group of women are being essentially forced to do something they don’t want to do for his benefit, isn’t there? I mean, I understand the whole “this is your job, and you have an obligation” and whatnot, but the the idea of the…

Something. Anything.

*sigh* This. Don’t give me a reason to feel compassion for a Trump!

I read a similar assessment of the meaning of “advice and consent” several months ago. I also had a conversation with my former con. law professor about the idea that the Senate’s refusal to act could be construed as consent and she agreed that the language is sufficiently vague that it’s a viable theory. The…

My favorite part was “sowing the seeds of hate...”

If nothing else, I’d be happy if he’d appoint a goddamn SC Justice. There has to be some way to get that seat filled before he leaves office. I refuse to believe that the Senate can unilaterally hijack democracy like this and he’s just going to be like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah, that’s why I thought it was a joke. Now that I know he’s serious I suspect he has some sort of mental illness.

And I would add that HIV is only treatable with long-term medications that can be extraordinarily expensive and have their own ill-effects. If someone does not have access to health insurance, they might not be able to afford those medications for the rest of their lives. And for some, the side-effects and…

Yes. All of this.

If I am wearing tights or pantyhose under a dress, I don’t also wear underwear. It seems like overkill. But I routinely go commando otherwise (although less frequently when I wear a dress without hose). I can’t stand it when my pants ride down and take my underwear with them.

Her total girl crush on Erica is adorable.

I haven’t seen the episode yet (my DVR awaits!) but from the previews and this write up, there are 2 things that I don’t get:

If it’s wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

I think she’s sad because her right nipple has gone missing.