Yeah, well, you’re directly responsible for Sarah Palin, who is responsible for Donald Trump. So there's that.

I hate that one of my initial reactions was, "At least he only killed one person."

From what I’ve gathered, this is a “broken clock is right twice a day” situation.

I’m in California, where we’re represented by two senators who are solid advocates for gun control. I don’t think they were there physically last night, but Feinstein wrote the legislature Murphy wanted to vote on, and Boxer has to be one of the NRA’s least favorite politicians. I left messages thanking them for their…

Hey, it worked, despite the predictions of some douchebag on Twitter who randomly decided to pick a fight with me. (He lost.)

Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania.

After the last one, I'm just happy to get back to having a VP who mostly works behind the scenes, occasionally emerging to embarrass himself. Beats blatant warmongering for profit.

I’ve been staring at my phone most of the day. So many texts. So many people to check on. What I will be doing once I’m more collected:

Yeah, I try to avoid writing profiles for straight guys in their 30s through early 50s. Not all of them are awful, but enough are that I prefer not to know what’s going on in any of their heads.

A friend of mine who was writing profiles referred me. It’s not something that had been on my radar before; I’ve dabbled in online dating since the early days, but mostly as a curiosity thing. I certainly haven’t found ~twoooo luuuv~. But I figured I’d apply, because if my friend who’d been doing it for a few months…

So true about the free sites. I’m on OK Cupid as a member, and I sometimes freelance as a ghostwriter for Match.com profiles. (Yes, this is an actual thing you can get paid to do.) The guys on OKC range from “I wanna bang someone” to “I’d like to meet someone, and if we end up together, awesome.” Most are pleasant;…

I grew up in Los Angeles, and people familiar with the city are frequently surprised that I - a smart white chick - went to my local public high school. I even remember a well-meaning relative asking my mother, “Aren’t you concerned about sending her to a school where so many students are... er... not…

I’ll take the shit-throwers over the people who are like, “I... I just don’t understand why Elizabeth Warren would do this. Why would she do this?”

Just a data point from a fellow Angeleno: Kaiser has never charged me three figures for my follow-up imaging. I just had the diagnostic mammogram/ultrasound three weeks ago, and there was no charge at all.

It is in Griffith Park, but it’s not in a position where a crowd can overflow into a grassy area. The Greek is near an outer edge of the park, a little ways up a big hill/small mountain. It’s in a natural indentation in a kind of foresty area. When I was in high school, sneaking into the Greek through the trees was…

She seems a bit rockabilly to me - though that may be more her overall sensibility than the actual music.

“The system,” whatever that is in any situation, is set up to protect itself. If it’s throwing up roadblocks at you, there’s about a 95% chance it’s throwing them up at everyone - even its supporters.

I bet the woman thought she was doing something nice for the cause, and is so used to just donating money to organizations and campaigns that she’s never thought about the logistical end. She probably spent the rest of the day grumbling, “I just wanted to send those kids some pizza. Why do they make it so hard?”

I’m getting the distinct impression that Sanders’ national campaign didn’t expect to be in it this long. If they had expected it, they’d be training volunteers to do things like Google venues.

The Hays code inspired some brilliant visual metaphors, though. One of my favorites is at the end of North By Northwest, when Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint are shown heading for their sleeper berth... And then there's a shot of the train going into a tunnel. It's not the least bit subtle, and yet it went straight…