I’ve never been to a Planet Fitness but I would be a fan of discouraging the people who moan dramatically and then drop their weights on the floor. It’s performative and silly and then I have to rewind my podcast dammit! (wordsonawire = born persnickety) 

You are really onto something here... if we can recruit all the fired scientists to just build the Best! Ever! golf club on a satellite and name it after Trump... and tell him it’s so cool that Elon Musk wasn’t invited... this could be the way out.

Voting is crucial but in the meantime call your senators and representatives. If this is carried out the members of our society who are affected by this will be gone by 2018.

No no — he made a well-articulated, 100+ page point about this. That’s why I was hesitant to add that he himself was gay. I just wanted to add that in to make it known that he had his own personal experiences to add. It was a serious academic work.

My rescue and I went on a sunset hike last night. He’s just under a year and I got him very young, so although I don’t know about his first few months he certainly operates now like a dog who’s never known trauma. And my friends’ two dogs, who did come with a fair amount of fear and baggage, have both become so much…

In fairness... a rich girl speeding on a Segway knocked me off my bicycle and the entire street helped me up and took her down a notch. There are assholes at Burning Man but it’s not Coachella. There’s still a good culture that hopefully people like Paris can’t manage to ruin.

I graduated in 2006 and a (gay — are parentheses the equivalent of a whisper? Hope not, just trying to indicate his academic study also included his own first-hand experience) friend did his thesis on how terrible this show is in terms of cultural representation. It might have been better-than but it was never good.

It’s so interesting how kids absorb the color palettes! Probably a mix of nature and nurture but I was a fervently feminist kid who wouldn’t even watch Sesame Street because I told my mom there weren’t enough strong female puppets (“Maria doesn’t count, she’s a grownup!”). But I avoided any toy that included greens,…

I have to travel for almost all the weddings that I go to, but that’s just because I move around a lot so I have friends all over. It’s a case-by-case decision based on A)how broke I currently am and B) how much I like you.

I remember my Mom thinking she was a bad ass for wearing short skirts. There were tabloid spreads about it and Mom was always like “good for her! it’s her life!”. I don’t know much about Diana’s story, but I do know that she indirectly caused me to be ok with the idea that you can be sexy and smart at the same time.

Also one of those radios that you can charge by cranking... I know that sounds antiquated but given that cell networks tend to crash in large events, a good backup to know what’s going on.

Well, I remember a psychologist friend of mine telling me that there was a survey done of teenagers’ goals, and the majority of them said they just wanted to be famous. As he explained it though, that’s really just them saying they want to be successful but they’re too young to really understand the varieties of…

Fair description of me.

That is a comic book I would have liked to have. I was raised agnostic/questioning/make-your-own-choice and had to start fending off conversion speeches basically as soon as I started school. It probably made me more opposed to organized religion, seeing how fervently adults from all these different creeds were trying…

Neither Elizabeth Cady Stanton nor Lucretia Mott lived long enough to vote. But if they didn’t take the actions that they did, maybe none of the rest of us would have either. Breaks my heart every time I think about it. Which is to say I guess, hopefully the future will be better. But I feel constantly lucky that of…

Excellent point; I’m convinced.

This is my first president suffering from dementia... I’m still adjusting. Hopefully we both get through the next few years without hiding in any basements.

Yeah when Trump got mad at North Korea and all of the news outlets were putting out graphics on where to go to be safe if you survive a nuclear attack, my roommates and I settled on the church down the street as the best place within a few minutes of travel that has a basement. Absolutely absurd that that is a…

I do assume that it’s somewhere in their pre-nup.

why are those his pants