Yeah, I wouldn’t have called her out, probably, but she is the author of her reality. She has put herself and her children in the firing line for power and profit. I never feel sorry for Ivanka because I can never forget how she went on a long vacation with Putin’s girlfriend weeks after she gave birth.

She’s totally the First Lady to be, and sits in on highest level meetings in bids to expand her fortune. No, she wasn’t elected, and that makes it worse.

They can only grow out of it by having their lives destroyed, as happens so often with a sociopathic partner. But then it will be too late.

How do you even get yourself to the polls and vote while never having the intellectual curiosity or responsibility to get informed?

Gross. I guess this is what happens when you love being an attention-seeking asshole: if you ever need to be taken seriously, it’s not gonna go that well.

And if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a Merry Christmas. It doesn’t matter if ignoring annoying people sometimes works; the job of the staff is to get hundreds of sardine people to another place, not to practice lay psychology or litigate your issues on the plane. Most passengers tacitly understand…

He must start reenacting each SNL-response tweet from Orange, building the insult. The next skit should be Baldwin sucking the corner of his blanket, talking about a sketch show that is super unfair to him, watching SNL, and composing bizarre infantile tweets about it in the middle of the night instead of going to…

Can you send her somewhere great that might shift her perspective? Find some program volunteering in Mexico or studying art in Paris or interning with a goat herder or something? She’s got to get out of that bubble and I agree this might be your last chance to intervene. It has to be somehow transmitted to her that…

I think we sometimes need to mourn what could have been in order to get to the compassion.

Wherever did the son learn that women don’t matter? I guess we’ll never know.

Keeping hair is always creepy.

Re: co-ed grad program requirements: it mostly works really well. The only guys that are going to apply (and get accepted) to a grad program at a women’s college are *generally* pretty cool people who don’t mind being in the minority. All the guys in my grad classes were great people who, by definition, had zero…

I have no sympathy for people who voted for Trump, at all—I have sympathy for their children. I have *extra* anger for Trump voters on behalf of their children. Whatever the reverse of sympathy is, that’s what I have. Pure contempt and withering judgment, maybe.

So you “believe” it’s still open, therefore Obama was probably just conning us? And therefore both sides are basically the same? This kind of anti-factual reasoning is what gave us this national nightmare.

I love pot but I hate it in public. Same way I hate cigarettes in public, but I smoke. I just think certain shit needs to stay at home. There was a very old man walking ahead of me on the sidewalk yesterday, smoking a joint. And it bothered me! There are kids in strollers, random people all around—I think we…

Can’t think of anything that honors the spirit of a hermit more than creating a tourist attraction in her name.

“Everybody in the car... Or perhaps you don’t want to see the second largest ball of twine on the face of the earth that’s only four short hours away.”

I wasn’t sure about women-only colleges until I spoke with the admissions person at mine and she explained the facts—as you say, a very small percentage of women go to women’s colleges, but a ridiculously high percentage of women in leadership positions are graduates of women’s colleges. Asked and answered. I had…

Do we know why the tree is purple this year? Is it to symbolize our collective bruised soul?

Have you read Before Night Falls? Arenas is a rare literary genius, aside from providing a shattering true account. One of the most beautiful books.