Eddie Murphy used to do a bit about how everybody who gets shot says “MotherFUCKer!” He did a very funny impression of Pope John Paul II (who had survived a shooting only a few years earlier) saying “Bless you, my son...bless you, my child...bless--motherFUCKer!”

Oh, that is really disappointing. Part of what’s so heartbreaking and terrifying about the book is that the superflu is 100% caused by human hubris, blindness, weakness. And we’re constantly being reminded that even in the wake of this calamity and knowing what caused it, humanity overall isn’t going to change. This…

Apparently a lot of them expected that the Capitol attack would create “The Storm,” an uprising which had been planned for years and which would overthrow the evil pedophile Dems and install Trump as president indefinitely. (Seriously. It’s a QAnon thing.) So they didn’t think they’d face consequences. They thought…

See, but Job gets a new wife and new children, and that makes it OK. They’re interchangeable, after all.

Also God murders nearly every living creature on earth because apparently they were all sinful (even the babies?), but then he manifests a rainbow and says he won’t do it again, so it’s cool.

See, that just seems like overhandling to me.

Big city snipes, boys!

I can highly recommend a hate-rewatch of “Top Gun” just to note all the ways in which they pose Kelly McGillis so she won’t tower over Cruise. She sits on a motorcycle while he bends down to kiss her. She leans against a wall and slides down it a little so he can look down at her. She sits on a barstool while he…

Tracy Schorn, who writes the awesome “Chump Lady” blog for people whose spouses/partners have been unfaithful, describes this post-divorce peace - being in your own living space, however small and humble that place may be, but no longer being abused/belittled by your spouse/partner - as “The walls in your house sing…

And I think the letter writer has fallen prey to another common relationship fallacy: that if a relationship doesn’t last the rest of your lives, it has “failed.” Sometimes a relationship works for a long time and provides joy and comfort during that time, but then people change and it doesn’t work anymore. That’s…

And the thing is, it’s not as if you can’t get married at the courthouse now, masked, and then have a bang-up wedding reception next year. You can still dress up fancy, have that first dance, eat cake, etc. You can even do a wedding ceremony/vow renewal. No one will care a bit that it’s happening well after the actual…

My dad’s the same way. Always encouraged my sister and me to excel, and pays lip service to being proud of our accomplishments, but also thinks our husbands are the real breadwinners and heads of household. Last year for Christmas, he gave our husbands books about business negotiation, even though neither of our…

Right? Apparently the guy teaches writing, but the piece is poorly written (in addition to being sexist and ridiculous). I’m a copy editor, and I was itching to mark it up!

I also love the brows and the wash of blue eyeshadow. Very late ‘60s/early ‘70s cover model look, and it suits her face shape and strawberries-and-cream skin tone. She looks lovely.

My guess is that the anti-Semitic right-wingers don’t even know she’s Jewish. Or if they know, they don’t mind because they think, having converted, she isn’t a “real” Jew. Or they have that insidious “she’s one of the good ones” mindset that’s the “no true Scotsman” fallacy; if you’re Jewish but we like you, you’re…

And...a third of Americans identify as Republicans. Tens of millions of them just voted for Trump. If she can’t get a job with *any* of them...she’s got bigger problems than “Democrats won’t hire me.”

I’d be more surprised if there weren’t such a scheme! Of course the Grifter-in-Chief and his mini-grifters are gonna exploit every possible avenue for money while Trump is still in office.

I’ve always wondered how many secrets Trump really knows. I mean, I’m sure he knows some, but if I were in charge of any such secrets I’d keep them under wraps as much as I could. Even Trump’s supporters and sycophants who work with him closely must know he could no more keep a secret than he could juggle flaming…

Wow. It’s like an SNL parody commercial.

The “Space Mutiny” episode is also legendary for the way in which they dramatically kill off a character...and then in the next scene we see her manning her station on the spaceship’s bridge. Most hilarious continuity error ever.