Yea, I imagine that it all just looks like a scene from “Major League.”

Fidel Castro—who is dead

Hopefully they all get their little ego boost and drop out after the first debate when it becomes obvious that they don’t have a shot at the title. I’m honestly kind of annoyed at the number of people who could be running competitive house/senate/governors races but are dicking around with the presidential instead.

I’m interested to see what happens to the polls once some of the real bottom-tier candidates get enough publicity for their book and drop out. I think Beto will survive that initial round of people leaving, but I am curious what happens to him after that. I wouldn’t place my money on him being the nominee (and I liked…

I mean, it’s possible. But based on some other evidence, I think it was equally likely that the dog just wasn’t very smart (but again, very sweet). 

My parents dog HATED the lovely old couple who lived up the street and loved the crackhead who dealt meth in town. She was a sweet dog, but not a great judge of character. 

He is also apparently unaware of how “Sandinista” is spelled.

Seriously, going out and joining some kind of club or taking a class would be a million times more effective, and also have the benefits of doing something you enjoy, even if you don’t meet a partner. 

Good lord. 

What is it with these people? If we wanted to watch movies that didn’t feature queer people being queer, WE WOULDN’T BE WATCHING MOVIES ABOUT FREDDIE MERCURY OR ELTON JOHN.

I can’t imagine getting a chance to interview Jeanette Winterson and then basically ignoring her! I love Winterson’s work so much, especially Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (and it’s more-autobiographical counterpart Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?) and The Passion.

The number of men who can’t seem to understand that really good-looking people are just as attracted to each other as the rest of us schlubs are attracted to them is insane. Like, yea, of course Ken and Barbie are going to get with each other, for the same reason you want to get with them.

I somehow doubt that there is a regulation forbidding IRS employees to comply with lawful requests from Congress.

Can’t Congress just go down the chain of command at the Treasury Dept. until they get to someone who will hand them over? Like the Saturday Night Massacre, but without firing people and actually doing their job? I mean, sure, all the top dogs are political appointees, but once you get past them it is just career bureau…

As an aside, I can almost never tell what the animals in Arthur are supposed to be. I know Arthur and family are aardvarks because we used to have some of the older books where he was still drawn with the nose, and obviously Buster is a rabbit, but the rest of them? If their name isn’t some kind of pun I literally…

One of my bosses once replied-all to a whiny email someone had cc’d him on with “Don’t cc me on stupid shit.” I feel like the judge could have gone a similar route here. 

This Wag the Dog remake sucks.

Also, studies released after the Bracero Exclusion in the 60s show pretty conclusively that wages for Americans in those fields did not go up, and unemployment did not go down. What did happen was that farmers switched crops from things that were very labor intensive to things that were easier, mechanization…

I just got her book about the War of the Roses and am super excited to read it!

I can only imagine what being in a room with Empress Maude (Matilda) and Eleanor of Aquitaine was like...