Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center just got a donation from me, and Pence just got three thank-you notes. I hope he chokes on them, that motherfucker.

What part of that isn't true?

Ha! That would have been funny. Also, completely out of character.

"Future"?

I bet he thought it was not unlike being Queen of England. Mostly ribbon cuttings and tending to the corgis while other people go about the boring business of keeping an entire country from going over a cliff.

I'd be with you if I had any faith that people would actually care enough to get off their asses and vote in a midterm. I'm so deep into cynicism right now (which of the five stages is that?) I can't see out of the black hole that promises to be the next four years.

I had several thoughts while reading this:
1. Jaysus, all nine episodes? You're seriously taking one for the team.

Man, I almost hope he actually abuses this. There's nothing that would turn even the most ardent supporters off the president-elect circus peanut than a constant stream of group texts they can't get out of.

You don't have to be drunk to quote The West Wing to great effect. I tend to shout "TEMPTING FATE!" a lot.

My favorite part of the episode is him wrapping his injured foot up in bubble wrap. And then Jim compulsively leans over to pop the bubbles.

I truly don't get how Aaron Sorkin could have created such great shows like Sports Night and The West Wing, and then turned around to write dreck like The Newsroom. That show really sucks. And I'm in the media, so you'd think I'd love it but it's just an abomination.

Everyone says the fifth season is the weakest, but for my fellow workers in the media, it's the one we watch the most because it's so depressingly familiar. It's like picking at a scab. We know it won't end well but we just can't help it.

Mad Men is the only TV series for which I own the DVD for every season. It's just eminently watchable for all the reasons you cite.

I loved The Wire, thought it was brilliantly brutal and David Simon one of the best storytellers around, but I'm not sure I'd ever willingly choose to watch it again. I still remember the gutted feeling I had at the end of Season 1, watching Wallace die. My husband and I were watching it together in bed and had to…

Also The West Wing, which I love and had been rewatching until the election. Now it's just too painful.

Elijah is also really enjoyable to watch. He's so snotty in his first appearance but subsequently, I found I could only watch episodes in which he appeared.

Twin Peaks is still an unmitigated joy to watch, possibly because I have good memories of all my college buddies getting together on Friday nights with coffee and pie to make it a party. Also, the quirkiness and laugh-out-loud weirdness is undiminished.

I'm a journalist, and watching the city editor at the Sun fight the good fight but still get mowed over in the end makes me both sad at the state of the industry and grateful I work at a publication where the top editors have also watched The Wire and make an effort not to act like their Wire counterparts.

Episodes is SO good! My husband went looking for a cellphone ringtone just like Matt LeBlanc's because just hearing it made us dissolve into giggles. Every time.

It's a great show to have on in the background while folding laundry because it's still comforting noise but you don't have to pay that much attention to it.