Mental Health Professionals Warn About Trump https://nyti.ms/2kDc21k

You are referring to the Goldwater Rule, which far predates this administration: https://www.psychiatry.org/newsroom/goldwater-rule

Lord, it's been a long time since I heard the term "refrigerator mother." Thank God this term is no longer in use, because....uugh.

Truth. Though it’s hard to see where the bad parenting ends and the organic sociopathy begins sometimes. Trump was clearly raised to be a complete narcissistic asshole and was highly rewarded for it, but something tells me he would have turned out to be pretty much the same kind of dick no matter what.

I believe it’s understood that Adam Lanza’s mother loved him very much, too. They lived together and there is a ton of evidence that she tried everything in her power to help him. (Side note: the New Yorker interview with Lanza's dad is a harrowing, heartbreaking read. It's so compelling, I revisit it a couple times a…

I subscribed to Hulu solely for St. Elsewhere. I’ve long maintained St. E is the second best television drama ever created (the first being the perfect and inimitable “Upstairs/Downstairs,” which “Downton Abbey” wishes it could be and never will...).

I’d completely forgotten about this book - I loved it from beginning to end! Thanks for reminding me about it - I think I’ll pull it off the shelf again!

Yes, though the press always tells the story about the Queen catching an early morning flight after the ball to her university to sit for an exam the following day. This kind of makes sense in that the ball is Tuesday night, in the middle of a week that holds no significance anywhere else. I don’t buy the story though…

You’re right! My mistake - I should have realized the white costume indicated Comus - thanks!

Those are the lieutenants of the Krewe of Rex. The guy in white is the Captain. They remain masked throughout the proceedings.

Nothing to see here, just pretty young ladies dancing with old guys in masks...

St. Louis: “Hey, look at our weird, creepy debutante ball.”

I was just coming to post this! Swiss cheese tastes like feet!!!!!

MAD MEN SPOILER ALERT:

I fucking hate this place. Every moment in a Chuck E. Cheese makes me feel filthy, tense and murderous.

I don’t understand the desire to have a huge party to celebrate high school graduation. This has baffled me for years, and in COVID times, it’s even more ridiculous. The only situation I can imagine where a high school graduation party might be warranted is if a young person had to overcome some huge, unusual…

This is a very good point. When the characters in 30 Rock do blackface, it’s clear that it’s meant to be super inappropriate and demonstrate the characters’ ignorance, but yet it doesn’t seem to land that way, especially now.

Two excellent cover albums: Shawn Colvin's "Cover Girl" and Nanci Griffith's "Other Voices, Other Rooms."

I hope my daughter has lots of good memories of her dad, because he really is a great parent. MY favorite, so far, is one she was too young to remember: listening to him sing “This Guy’s in Love With You” by Burt Bacharach as he bathed her in the little blue baby tub.

Excellent choices here. I also like kd lang's version of Hallelujah, and also Crying.