Even if she is “never alone with children” she is normalizing herself to children. My kiddos see peeps who volunteer at their school out and about all the time. They alway s wave excitedly and shout “Hi Mrs. Lastname!!” (well, less so the son, but that’s middle school for you).

Helicopter parenting is bad and you can’t shelter them from bad stuff in the world too much but I feel like “I don’t want my children interacting with a known serial killer” is a fairly reasonable request?

Look, without making myself completely doxxable, I will say that this falls under my wheelhouse of expertise and as far as I can tell, the truth of the matter is that this was a truly impossible situation for Comey. “Sources and methods” may be a vague concept for most people, but the reality is that years of work and…

I’m not familiar with Albee or his work, so I very much appreciate your take on this. I’m better acquainted with Beckett’s oeuvre, and given that he insisted on translating his own work to French, I’m not surprised that he also wanted to control every last detail of the production.

That’s unfortunate, given that absurdity is primed for reinterpretation.

Mm, it is my impression that Albee was a giant weenus, and it seems his estate is doing its best to uphold that legacy. I worked on a production of Three Tall Women that had to do some *very* last minute shuffling because they didn’t like the way we handled a non-speaking character. So while I can, perhaps, see the…

I do not think he will be impeached, at least not until 2018, but this is still good news. If nothing else, it causes fear and chaos in the White House. If Trump tries to fire Mueller, it creates more, and may alienate more Republicans. All this makes it less likely that Trump will be able to do anything and will have…

Shit, I’m sorry you’re in Texas with that asshole. I’m somewhat insulated from the bullshit living in California, but I’m still in Orange County where there are some seriously creepy pockets of neo Nazis. I was just talking to my mom about the whole Nixon era shenanigans (she was in her mid 20s at the time), and she…

Of course! I feel like with Trump you don’t need to come up with any Machiavellian reasons for anything. Dude is just desperate to appear like he belongs so he’ll just spout out whatever bullet points he skimmed earlier in order to impress whoever he’s talking too.

Re: The three WH officials:

It HAS to begin now. Our constitution with all its checks and balances has never been under so much stress. I’m actually starting to question if this American Experiment will survive this test. As for the average Trumpvoter...just had one over today and she is fucking delusional, screaming FAKENEWS at me. This is…

No — McMaster is trying to prevent the international security-sharing apparatus from falling apart because he knows how important it is. He is trying to plug his finger in the dike.

Yup. He’s like a fucking four year old with a juicy secret. And those tweets? Come on. He doesn’t know how to spell the words schedule, pertaining, or absolute. Also, you can bet your ass the Russians figured out who/where the intelligence was coming from and burnt their asses. Those allied assets are probably dead or…

It was classified intelligence from a partner source, an allied nation that would have to approve the declassification of the info because their agents in place would be at risk of serious harm if the info got out. And of course Trump didn’t declassify the intel, he babbled pridefully to his Russian handlers. …

In other headlines, SS Titanic’s captain orders new, better deck chairs. The problem isn’t your staff, Donnie. Find a mirror — I’m sure you have a mirror — and gaze longingly into it. That’s where the problem lies. It doesn’t matter who your advisers or mouthpieces are. You ignore advice and undercut your…

Trump’s tax returns probably won’t show income or loans from Russia; it’s dirty money in cash or laundered through the Bank of Cyprus. This will take sophisticated forensic accounting. Meanwhile cherchez la fille: Ivanka is most likely the family bag man.

“I was going to fire Comey,” Trump told NBC. “Regardless of the recommendation, I was going to fire Comey.”

Soooooooo, my job is literally focused around foot and ankle surgery (among other types). I can tell you, with 100% confidence, that is definitively NOT what a traumatic opening into the medial midfoot would look like.

“More than a year after his death in Chanhassen, Minnesota...”

You mean the martial law aspect? They wouldn’t need to march; the only question would be if the military followed orders to deploy.