Meh, he’s an obese 70 year old. The Secret Service isn’t always as on the ball as we’d like, but I’m pretty sure they can beat him to her.

This is the way a five year old apologizes. “Yes, I broke that lamp after you said to stop jumping on the couch and I’m sorry. But Bobby was jumping on the couch first. He jumps on the couch all the time!” Except that with a five year old, it’s developmentally appropriate, if annoying.

Ten bucks says that he pronounces Arkansas phonetically.

Whaaaaat?! He’s 32?!?! Jesus, that’s a hard looking 32.

I have a friend whose father had an extremely minimal role in her life. She’s in her late 30s now and she still seems to be hoping that he’ll do something to prove he loves her. Her mother has flown across the country for her wedding, the births of her children, and a couple holidays a year, and my friend is always…

I feel like she has probably spent a good chunk of her life hanging onto any scrap of attention her father gave her and being desperate for his love. Writing off a distant or absent parent is surprisingly difficult.

For the summary alone, that needs to be an episode of How Did This Get Made?

Well, and Valencia. And Father Brah (sp?). I don’t think the point was that they stuck to their guns—they didn’t mention anyone wanting Josh to be a white guy. More the point was that the default of most casting directors is white. If casting directors were more careful about seeing where there was room to…

I certainly hope so. And the stuff about his charity is crazy and awful, but it doesn’t seem to be getting the traction you’d think it would. It seems like he’s been revealed as a straight up crook, but weirdly people only sorta care.

I loved Beauty and the Beast when I was a kid, so I was pretty excited to watch it with my pre-schooler. She loved it but I found myself really cringing through most of it. Especially the Gaston scenes. In my memory, Gaston was awful and overbearing and tone deaf but watching it now as an adult I found it really…

I read the article about his charity today and kind of felt like, Eh, I’d be more surprised to hear that he actually did have the necessary certifications. The stuff about his charity doesn’t seem to be sticking as much as I’d like it to, but this stuff with Machado seems to have some legs to it.

It seems like nobody wanted to go after him too hard because they didn’t want to alienate his supporters. They wanted to beat him and then claim his supporters for themselves. By the time they realized that it wasn’t going to work out quite so neatly, it was too late.

IIRC, the most common treatment for NPD is basically therapy for the people around them (spouse, children), because, yeah, treating someone with NPD is almost always a non-starter.

I heard Rachel Bloom and Aileen Brosch McKenna (the creators, writers, and in Bloom’s case the star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) on some podcast or radio show discussing diversity in television. They basically said that if you don’t specify that a character is supposed to be non-white, casting agents will just…

Could be!

I always imagine that these houses are like the White House or Buckingham Palace. Lots and lots of space that’s pretty much just for show, and then a handful of rooms tucked off to the side where people actually live. It all seems incredibly inefficient, but here we are.

That is a kitchen designed by and for people who do not cook. I cannot imagine cooking a goddamn thing in there. And for-fucking-get trying to clean the damn place. Also, just the look of it is putting me off my appetite. Ghastly.

Also, $14 million is a small amount of money, according to him. Like, peanuts. Pocket change. You guys know, right? You know how you want to buy another jet and you, like, go through your couch cushions and only come up with, like, fourteen, fifteen mil? Yeah, you know.

I feel like Carvey and Rock’s expressions suggest they’re just politely sitting for the picture and hoping these two dumb dumbs go away soon.

The thing is that UNH’s football team is not a particularly big draw for the school. They have really good hockey teams--both men’s and women’s--that take home championships reliably and draw big crowds. But their football team is...well, just a football team. If they were spending $1,000,000 of a gift on the…