This guy realizes that the country has coastlines, and that most people come in via airplane, right? Uh... right?

When I’m stressed, I have a hard time eating or drinking anything. The greater the stress, the less possibility I’ll be able to choke anything down.

Everyone who isn’t an angry white dude has just been told that we don’t count as much as Americans, that we’re the problem. Never mind economic forces greater than any of us: Trump voters as a whole wanted to put a name on what they feel is holding them back, and that word is “them.”

I remember going to vote with my parents when I was a wee one. The polling places were usually in someone’s garage, and we always saw people we knew. It was all very cozy and homey and hamish*.

The Trump campaign has been using Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism as a playbook, and it scares the crap out of me.

It could be - but it seems to me like that’s what they’ve been trying to do all along. None of it’s sticking.

Heck if I know. My best guess: They really couldn’t find any reason to charge her on the emails, but hoped that calling her irresponsible with the emails would tank her. But the thing is, people made up their minds who they were voting for - or, more accurately, who they’d never vote for - months ago. The October…

I don’t generally put much stock in conspiracy theories, especially large-scale ones. There are just too many people who could spill.

There’s only one time I haven’t wanted to smack someone for “God has a plan” was at the funeral of a cousin who died unexpectedly at 49. One of his friends who spoke said, “I believe God has a plan. But I can’t even begin to imagine what he had in mind here, because it doesn’t make any sense.” I could see that he took…

Eh, they’re both self-important guys to avoid.... like most dudes with any showbiz power.

If you want to survive in the real, bleak La La Land, it helps to believe that romance and spontaneous production numbers are possible.

That doesn’t surprise me.

IMDB doesn’t list her character name. Wasn’t there a telepathic character they meet on Camazotz who turns Charles Wallace all spooky? I think the character was male, but if Zach Galifianakis can play the Happy Medium (female in the book), then Rowan Blanchard can damn well play that dude.

Yep: Derek McCabe.

My parents used to live in Echo Park. There were always coyotes here and there, but about five years ago something had the coyotes appearing in droves. So many cats went missing from people’s theoretically-safe backyards that summer. It was awful. When one of my parents’ cats didn’t come in one evening, we knew we…

Bingo. Every publisher wants to pump up the eyeballs.

Unlike in the NBA and NFL, MLB managers (and coaches, for that matter) frequently go onto the field where the game is played. That’s the traditionally-cited reason for why baseball managers wear the same uniforms as their players, and it’s as good an explanation as any.

I thought people would lay off me when I hit 40. Ha ha nope. They just tell me about their cousin’s friend who had twins at 45 or something.

Hillary/DNC didn’t have to rig the primary to win, despite the support for Bernie.

At some point in one’s life, Halloween stops being on October 31 and starts being the last weekend in October.