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Paquin's version of Rogue took the cure, though, at least in that timeline.

Well, that was a clusterfuck. Chris has on John Braebender, a talking-point-spewing conservo-wackadoodle, and boy, was that a bad idea. Braebender got his talking points across -- no collusion by Trump with Russia, the Russian actions had no impact on the outcome, etc., etc. -- and when one of the other two panelists tried to say something to counter him, he talked over them, interrupted them, and just made a complete ass of himself. And Chris was zero help in reining Braebender in as Braebender was following the patented Matthews model of conduct on a political talk show to a tee.

Joy is subbing for Lawrence (again). I normally like Joy, but that first segment she got bit by the interjection bug. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Uh-huh. Mm-hm. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I felt like throwing something breakable at the TeeVee. Not only are the filler noises unnecessary, they're unprofessional at the national political talk show level. Gack.

Got in the car this morning after being stuck in the house all week due to a late winter cold snap and I was tickled to death when it started right up on the first try. Good car. ;)

I actively started to despise Rory after the oh-poor-me-I-had-to-drop-a-class meltdown. Oh, boo freaking hoo. Get over yourself, you whiny little beeyatch. It didn't help that AB's acting was atrocious in her crying scenes, that one and the one where she hugs Richard and says she messed everything up. She just didn't have the talent for it. Her acting in the first sex scene with JP wasn't much better and that was supposed to be exciting, or something. As far as the father figure, I'm inclined for Lorelai and the rest were just men in her life. I agree she was closer to Christopher than to Luke, but she knew she could depend on Luke. The coffee cake birthday and the signs in the window for the rummage sale and Lorelai being "not very good with no" get me in the feels whenever I see them. As far as Rory's journalism career or lack thereof in the revival, totally agree with the assessment of Rory as not being tough enough to be a foreign correspondent. I was mostly confused and irritated by Rory in the revival because she hadn't moved forward. Credentials on the campaign bus of the winning presidential candidate should have led to a job in the White House Press Corps after the campaign was over. Having Rory flailing around with an article here and an article there made no sense to me at all. (I'm imagining Rory as Betsy Woodruff, who is on the national political news shows all the time. She writes for the Daily Beast and is 28-years-old.) I still want to know what happened to the trust fund(s) she was supposed to receive at 25. Rory liked living the good life, but she wasn't a spendthrift. I can't see her going through that much money in less than five years.

I kind of thought Bill had a point with his criticism of what women like and pay money for in popular culture. It makes me very sad/sick that the latest movie in the 50 Shades trilogy is making mountains of money at the box office. And in the Twilight Saga Edward wasn't a sadist. He was a professional stalker and yet every girl's dream guy. He doesn't want sex, which every real-life straight guy wants from girls all the time. I was once an Andrea Dworkin/Catharine MacKinnon radical feminist man-hater. I was really angry for a really long time. It's not that I'm trans. I do like being a girl. But I hated how I was sexualized when I was a 12-year-old kid and it took me a really long time to work through all of that. What I'm trying to get to is there's an angle Bill hasn't brought up yet and it's a doozy. If #metoo really wants to stop the harassment and sabotage the patriarchy, women need to throw out their hair dyes and their eye shadow and stop going to see the plastic surgeon for their BOTOX injections and all of the things women do not just to feel good about themselves, but to make themselves into the sex objects they're expected to be.

Wait, Joe apologized to Heidi and admitted he was wrong about something? Joe actually did a nice thing after being kinda rude. Unexpected!

Glad we only got "almost Carrie crying" face instead of "full-on Emmy-reel crying" face. I miss Quinn as well and also do not remember the FBI agent who was supposed to be such a good spy with Carrie in Kabul. Carrie needs to get out of her sister's house. The "it's your sickness, not the world" lecture was premature. I didn't see Carrie swilling down gallons of chardonnay or Merlot and I didn't see her bringing random redheaded Brody lookalikes home to fuck on the stairs, two of unmedicated Carrie's favorite activities. This!! I did enjoy seeing Carrie run her spy-craft games, even though I was not at all surprised when the meeting between the potential witness and the senator went to total shit. That's our Carrie.

That was going to be my guess, that the only thing that could take her away from the show would be the meticulous planning of their impending rich-princess wedding.

At last, no "you're so brave for coming on my show" conservo-whackadoodle to suck up all of the oxygen on the panel, yay! Agree about his cluelessness and that Bill should just STFU when it comes to women's issues. However, about Bill's misogynistic asshattery and the possibility of harassment/assault allegations upcoming, my feeling is he probably doesn't have to worry. Bill doesn't seem to like power-over sex of the Trumpian model, but rather likes it much better when women come to him. My mom and I went to a book signing here at Powell's Books in Portland in 2003 or so for "When You Ride Alone, You Ride With Bin Laden." We didn't buy the book -- we just sat in the back of the room staring adoringly at him while he chatted and signed. He seemed to dig it/us. He made sure we knew he noticed us. Anyway, JMHO, YMMV., of course.

I read all the Twilight books once, but have seen all of the movies multiple times. I'm a middle-aged woman and I live in the Pacific NW. I regularly drive past the diner where Mike moons Bella. The movies really bring out the beauty of the land here, the mountains, the giant trees, the rain, the coasts. I could only dream of living in a house like Charlie's, at the end of a barely-paved road all by itself. On the other hand, I read about 15 pages in the middle of FSOG just to get a feel for them before I threw the book into the garbage, doubly annoyed at the morning show anchor (can't remember which one) who heartily recommended reading the books, saying they would make a six-hour flight seem like no time at all. I was once in the BDSM scene as a sub and the power dynamic of Grey/Ana is completely and totally wrong. The sub brings tribute to the Dom, not the other way around. Good movies about BDSM are possible. I loved The Story of O and Secretary (except for the trial at the end). And Belle de Jour is truly a trip inside the mind of a submissive. Another favorite is a movie called Damage (with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche) directed by Louis Malle based on the book of the same name where the book is much more explicit about BDSM that leads to sexual obsession. Miranda Richardson was nominated for an Oscar (best supporting actress) for her work as Irons' aggrieved, neglected wife.

Rick Adelman's Son R.J. Dies at Age 44 After Being Hit by Car Crossing Street http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2758458-rick-adelmans-son-rj-dies-at-age-44-after-being-hit-by-car-crossing-street?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist So sad. Former Trail Blazers fan here, really liked Adelman a lot when he coached here. (It was during their Drexler heyday.)

I can't think of who to thank for having John Heilemann on my TeeVee without his smug cohort Halperin, but nevertheless I am extremely grateful. I wish the show would just freaking stop with the Democrats are making mistakes that the mainstream foretold so that the false equivalence fairy can dance on their graves and pretend that the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans.

April Nardini and Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls -- April because she was a way for Amy Sherman-Palladino to break up Luke and Lorelai just for the sake of the drama and later years Rory just because she was so entitled and damn comfortable in Richard and Emily's world.

I cry every time Will Smith kills Sam (his dog) in I Am Legend and Emma dies in Terms of Endearment.

Loved the interview with Lanny Davis. It was good to hear on the TeeVee someone chastise Comey for the October 28, 2016 letter to Congress that ostensibly cost HRC the presidency. I put Lanny's book on my WishList and will buy it posthaste.

Take away the "what-about-ism" card and Mooch would literally have had nothing to say. I think Donna Brazille did a yeoman's job not letting Mooch get the better of her. She was determined to get her point across no matter what. I was like "go Donna, go Donna." Seemed to me like Frum was just a waste of space once Mooch made his appearance. Thanks to those who shared their suffering on Overtime. I'm skipping that.

That was a beautiful thing to see before the bailiffs tackled him. (I'd been trying to figure out where to post about that, thanks.) Don't worry. Once Nassar gets to prison, if he's not in solitary, his time will be horrifying. Child molesters don't fare well in general population.

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Mika was having none of Wolff's standard evasions of "Nikki Haley denied something she wasn't accused of" and "read the part of the book that says something about her." That's when Meeks blew her top and said something like "we don't do that here on Morning Joe." and went to the unexpected break. I wonder who's going to win that spat? If I were a betting person, I'd put money on Mr. Wolff.

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Thanks,@oakville, for the recap of the overrated and past retirement panel of Brokaw, Noonan, and Kearns Goodwin, Mika's All-Stars. I saw them standing in the background being previewed by Meeks and felt like projectile-vomiting. From the way-back machine, these were the Democrats of the post-9/11 Chimpy McCokeSpoon era. Even now Dems still have bouts of spinelessness that bring back those bad memories.

Investigative journalist Robert Parry dies at 68 http://www.latimes.com/sns-bc-us--obit-parry-20180129-story.html He also ran one of my favorite online news sources, consortiumnews.com. Too young. And the obligatory FUCK CANCER.

One day later in the week Joe was going on and on about how conservativism was purged in the sixties by William F. Buckley, who kept crackpots like the John Birch Society out of the movement and out of the Republican Party. Joe at least owes Charlie Sykes a plug for his book, "How the Right Lost its Mind." If Joe had had used Sykes' material in his WaPo column without attribution the way he did on the show, Sykes would have a good case for plagiarism. I'm almost finished with the book and I'm surprised I've only scratched "Bullshit!" into the margins maybe three times.

No. Just no. Robert Pastorelli is dead and I never got over the Beefy-Boy-Jump-the-Shark ep.