I have no problem with it if the people in question work together and are supporting each other’s political actions. For instance, I wouldn’t have a problem with Ivanka Trump being asked about something her father had done, because she wouldn’t be being asked just because of the family relationship, she’d be being…

Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about there? I didn’t listen to the entire day of hearings. Is Trump making these blank-faced silences up out of whole cloth, or is he twisting the usual silences of people marshaling their thoughts on a complicated issue before answering and suggesting those hesitations…

And now I’m picturing representatives, between sessions, wheeling madly up and down the aisles, racing one another, and twirling one another in the chairs until they’re dizzy. Which is a great mental picture, actually.

I really think Harry seems like a good guy who is honestly devoted to his charity work. If so, I expect part of the draw of staying in the “family business” is that he can bring a lot of awareness (and funding) to people who need it. And Meghan has a history of being aware and active in social justice issues, so I…

It (pleasantly!) surprises me to hear he has a reputation for being kind and generous. I get such a snide, angry vibe from him in all his movies (even The Wedding Singer, which is a great movie but I always thought he was the weak spot for that reason; he’s supposed to be playing a basically nice guy but I still get…

This is what I thought too. If I were a doctor, I don’t care what kind of forms the patient signed, I would simply refuse to provide such information. There’s no medical reason why anybody else would need to know it. But I guess rich and famous people just shop around until they find a doctor who’s willing to sell…

This is something so many people don’t understand. I remember people saying of Bourdain’s suicide that it was awful of him to kill himself since he left behind a young daughter. But when you’re in a deep depression, you feel like everybody would be better off without you. I had suicidal ideation once during a…

Yeah, I’d have more understanding for Wilson’s choice if he just felt he was not able to parent children at all, but if he’s already an active parent to other children, cutting another child out completely is unkind. I can’t imagine how it would feel, as the child, to know he wanted her brothers but not her.

I was amused by the irony of her berating protesters for supposedly not making their parents proud...when Don Jr. obviously does everything he does in a desperate attempt to make his father proud.

Yup. And I expect it’s been a vicious cycle: Jr. isn’t intelligent and/or savvy and/or tough enough to be successful in business, so Sr. ridicules and rejects him, and then he’s even more determined to gain his father’s approval, so he puts himself in front of the media to defend Sr., but he’s too stupid to manage…

I myself couldn’t be prouder of my children if they seized the chance to be rude, disruptive, and discourteous to a member of the Trump family or administration.

It kind of looks like shapewear of some sort to me. A man-girdle. Mirdle?

Kentuckian here. Bevin also famously called Kentucky teachers “lazy,” “ignorant,” and “selfish” when they protested having their pensions cut further. (In Kentucky, teachers must pay 13% of their paychecks into a pension fund, but in recent years the state has not kept up their end of the pension bargain, partly…

YES! I’m from Lexington KY. Trump desecrated our fair city with a big rally in our downtown arena last night in support of Bevin. (Well, technically. All Trump rallies are in support of Trump.) And Bevin still lost.

I’ve read about the Broaddrick case and have seen her Dateline interview, and I think she was telling the truth about what happened in that hotel room. She told people at the time. And she was a Democrat and a Clinton admirer before that day - she wouldn’t have had a good reason to lie about it. She also didn’t come…

And I brush my own teeth! I mean, only with sparkly pink toothpaste. But still.

She does smile big sometimes, especially when talking to little kids. But she looks blank for posed pictures a lot. I don’t know if she’s trying to look like a model posing or trying not to show her wrinkles or what, or if it’s the Botox. And I’ve never seen her genuinely smile at her husband or at anything he’s said…

I think the point was that if they’d seen the same lady, she must have been supernatural, since she should have been decades older on the second “visit” and yet appeared to be in her early twenties.

A friend of mine moved into an old house with her family, including her four-year-old daughter. The daughter kept refusing to use her own bathroom, saying there was a “gray lady” who floated in the corner and stared at her there. She only wanted to use her parents’ bathroom.

If that sort of thing unnerves you, read M.R. James’s short story “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.” Its image of a faraway figure climbing strangely over the rocks, never getting any closer, has haunted me since I first read it decades ago.