I’m glad that you’re covering this, and I just gotta say that I think Fidelity and the other benchmarks are seriously underestimating what the hell people need in retirement. I’ve been thinking about this since my first real job in my mid 20s. Personally, I’m going for at least 20x yearly earnings into retirement, and…

Absolutely, I fourth or fifth this. Very, very funny and her Twitter is great —knowledgable, engaged and an excellent sense of humor.

Yes. All sounds rotten, but then this timeline is pretty bleak and there’s not a lot to enjoy. Shelby’s comments this week were interesting, but we should know better than to get our hopes up right now.

That certainly would’ve been the next sentence has she been permitted to go on. And as others are saying here, their anti-Semitism isn’t particularly special or creative. I just assumed they were, I didn’t need confirmation of this.

That is the look, exactly. It’s difficult for me to be sympathetic, but then she is in a completely impossible position. Perhaps we’ll know after the administration is over. Even Ari Fleischer has showed that that despite all the bullshit he was mandated to spread during W’s first term, he regularly offers good…

Tragically, yes. She handles the press room like my malevolent 4th-grade social studies teacher; imperious, unstinting, dismissive, reflexively combative, opaque, without a hint of irony. Obviously trained by watching Fox for decades and she never breaks character, that I can tell. She has faltered while spewing the…

I am sorry to hear about that. If there is a delicious irony to be had here, it’s in Keillor’s repeated public condemnation of Howard Stern, whom he likened to a circus geek who spoke about sex as if it were like “having a bowel movement.” Yet everything I’ve heard about Stern’s off-air behavior paints him as a…

That rings absolutely true to me. What I recall from Rousseau’s Confessions, he is a highly feminine (and feminized) figure always desperately at pains to prove his masculinity — and can never quite get over his thing with older women, either.

Personally, not after ninth grade. Some guys never quite graduate mentally, of course. Into college, I’d rarely hear it with reference to actual women; really only in jokes, abstractly. And never that often. After college, never.

Oh, completely. I immediately thought she was wearing a hospital gown or something.

No, I can’t, too awful. There is no ambiguity at all here. The thing that strikes me, over and over, it that this is stranger-jumping-out-of-the-bushes type stuff. The thing that rape is constantly stereotyped as, and hardly (relatively) ever is. We’ve rarely heard of a high-profile person doing anything more…

Yes. With both Hannah and Anthony in particular (and I know there are others, I can’t come up with the names now), he was outright stalking them. Very literally hunting each of them down until he could strike, tracking them from location to location.   

I agree, you are right. Currently looking for answers while alternating between jaw-clenchingly livid and catatonic.

Absolutely. It sounds as if they both shared the burden, as it were, and they are lucky to have each other. Very clear from Rosie Perez’s story that it was a constant presence with them over time, and that it changed them both.

These are all horrific, but her story and Lysette Anthony’s are the ones that make me feel like curling up into the fetal position; he fucking battered his way into their rooms.

Yes, that’s who I was referring to — that photo in the book with Barker and Turner dancing and smiling at the camera becomes incredibly sinister, given its context. I didn’t remember Cheryl talking about being abused by Stompanato either, but other sources are saying so now. I’m exhausted too. Her mother’s taste in…

Fun tidbit: when Lana Turner and Sean Connery were filming Another Time, Another Place (1958), the very jealous-minded Stompanato pulled a gun on the unarmed Connery, who nevertheless disarmed Stompanato and dealt him a well-deserved ass-kicking.

The whole LP, Transparent Things, is really good. Low-key Krautrock beats; whispered, witty and self-referential lyrics.

This thing that you describe is really the thing that troubles me: Trump goes on Trumping, and if it turns out okay (please Heaven), his base will think that “worked,” when in fact his recklessness made things worse and we just got lucky. That’s pretty much what happened with Reagan over and over; say or do something…

People there don’t like for anyone to bring this up, but Austin is quite racist, in general. It is very segregated, it financially punishes outlying school districts dominated by nonwhites, and Austinites by and large ignore both of these things because, hey, it’s Austin, and what happens outside our bubble,…