Well, that was my gut reaction last night. We’ll see how much of a liability he becomes. We can’t deny it as a possibility, with all the weird shit happening over the past year or so. We’ll find out who the real human beings in the Republican party are, I guess.

I was drunk, sorry.

You are right, “sophistry” is probably too strong a word for him. “Verbal sleight-of-hand” is probably also too strong. I don’t see how he could be aware of what he’s really saying..

Good heavens, no.

I remember reading several years ago that older obstetricians—people already in their practices—were being asked in large and troubling numbers by younger OBGYNs out of med school to teach them how to do abortions. It’s not just Wisconsin, it’s everywhere. The knowledge of how to do it safely and correctly is…

On 538's podcast yesterday (mostly good, episode by epsiode) they were going over “future paths” for the Trump presidency, and one scenario had Trump sailing along as he has been doing, with the whole “Russia thing” devolving into what you suggest — only so much “white noise,” with the populace not caring about the…

Very glad to hear about Gypsy. His performance in that movie is the one I really remember, and as per usual, way more going on beneath the surface.

Oh my god that angle sucks for him. Wow.

Yes — I keep forgetting that despite their wealth and presumable freedom to go anywhere and associate with anyone, there’s still your fucking family to deal with. Hell of a lot of fractures there that ain’t ever gonna be fixed.

This was one of the few things that really made me laugh today, thanks. God, if it could be true. I’ve no fucking idea how long it takes to spontaneously grow a conscience from nothing—Christ how could this end any other way than all the motherfuckers in the WH being dragged kicking and screaming to testify—but this…

Yeah, I was being optimistic.

My third or fourth thought today was looking forward to the turn Fox News will inevitably have in the barrel. At some point, he will turn on them also, no matter how much sucking up they’re doing now. And then what?

Came here for Wizards, was not disappointed. Often, I remember, HBO would run the fuckin’ thing at 6.30am, and so depending on how early you got up, you could catch it before school.

I’d never read that Craven offered that opinion, and he was completely fucking right to do so. I’m not really a fan of his, but he was astute about so much with the movie business. I’m mostly allergic to gore* — for me, the issue is really the pointless sadism as well as misogyny in horror movies — and though I really…

Even though Trump isn’t Jewish, he completely shares that woman-blood-phobia with the Orthodox folks. Though that’s also the thing that would prohibit them from grabbing women at all, much less inappropriately.

Wow, I don’t remember that. Well, boo to him, but we all got our quirks. Richman does kinda divide people.

Yes to all that.

Same here. Haven’t been wrenching for a decade or two, but I can never resist this show. Despite the silliness and the bad puns and everything, they knew what they were doing and they put out a hell of a lot of information and insight in a way that a popular audience could understand, and also be led to care about. …

Yes to all that. Very much not even fucking in New York during that time, and didn’t particularly care about rock, being about to turn 30. The Strokes and the White Stripes were pretty much where I stopped being excited about “new music” at all, at least by people younger than me, which is how that should happen,…

Several years ago, I remember the Times publishing an article saying something like, don’t be ashamed to drink rosé, idiots, they drink really good rosés in Europe all the time, it’s the ideal thing for summer, blah blah blah. After that, I had a lot more of my friends snagging cases of Care rosé from Costco and…