I did the same thing several years ago. The hit to my finances was far outweighed by the benefit to my psyche. I got to take all the skills I learned in the private sector and apply them to actually helping people. It didn’t stop my depressive episodes, but pulling out of them was easier when I had that kind of…

Chaffetz acts like he’s privately scared that he’ll be investigated for influencing the election by leaking Comey’s letter aboutHillary’s emails. Not that there would be much of an investigation required, as he is demonstrably the one who did it - but then he might be held accountable for something.

Yep. Guy’s going to get us all killed by 2018.

Yeah, it wasn’t that long ago - 2012, to be exact, that the Texas GOP opposed teaching critical thinking because it might challenge students’ beliefs and undermine their patents’ rights to determine their world view. Some of the opposition I’ve seen to Common Core sounds awfully similar.

That gum you like comes back in style. A drifter spends years chewing that gum, and uses the chewed gum as the framework for what looks like a roadhouse bar swathed in blue velvet.

California hasn’t even finished its first count. There are still approximately 1.5 million ballots to be tallied. But, sure, call for a recount. That’ll tip things...

I love other people’s babies... and I love giving them back when I’m done hanging out with them.

Your family sounds so much like mine! Well, except for the having a baby by sperm donor thing. My mother stopped bringing up the possibility of my getting pregnant when I started pointing out that I inherited my fibroids from her. Fibroids don’t make pregnancy impossible, but the ablation I had sure comes close.

I kept my mother off my back for years with, “What’s the hurry? Women are having kids well into their forties, you know.” If she kept nagging, I would point out that I could barely pay for my own life. How could I possibly pay for a child as well? That did the trick.

My mother is still reeling from realizing that neither of her children want to provide her with grandchildren. Depending on day, she either feels cheated or acts like it’s a referendum on her and my fathers’ parenting.

I’m not a constitutional lawyer, nor do I have a graduate degree of any kind. I am simply an enthusiastic woman with an abiding love for the Constitution, much like Brian Fellow’s abiding love for all God’s creatures.

If you’re a little more old-school, Jaren the bartender was his nephew. If you discovered the Kitty after 2009, Jaren was that guy in that framed picture that looked like it was of a taller, sturdier Tom Hanks. (FWIW, I don’t think Tom knew about Jaren’s health until it was too late. None of us did.)

Liquid Kitty. Massive heart attack from a hereditary condition that would have been diagnosed if he’d been able to see a doctor on a regular basis. (This was pre-ACA. He couldn’t afford the insurance rates for someone with his family history.)

Colin’s done a bunch of TV, and he’s also turned into a pretty decent maker of documentaries. I quite liked All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records, which came out the same week as Bridge of Spies. Tom and Colin sort of got into it a little on Twitter. It was fucking adorable.

As far as I can tell, she picked up on a few things about his life and gave him some advice that turned out to be very on-point.

When I found out about her passing, I was at what turned out to be a bar that she and some friends would occasionally pop into on karaoke night. She is said to have belted out an amazing “I Will Survive.”

Give it time. He still has about half the cabinet to get through.

While I never made a promise to leave the country, I did promise myself that I’d make a contingency plan. I’m in a nice, pretty bubble here in California - but if the shit really hits the fan, I’m cool with running the revolution from somewhere else.

He’s just going through Mike Pence’s phone, isn’t he?

I used foo@bar.com. I doubt there’s anyone on their end who’s geeky enough to know that’s the “John Doe” of emails.