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I'll be sad if Phryne leaves Jack behind. I guess she's an "action hero" if the definition is expanded to include someone who points a gun but rarely fires it. She might clock someone with her shoe or the like. I don't really see her fighting off a hoard of ninjas or punching out bad guys on the roof of a speeding train.

Have we discussed this before? Peck and Nunez were sued for sexual harassment in 2014. I find it very believable. The complainant said "Nunez and Peck requested a female assistant, and employees of producer Original Media warned that the pair would torture her. In the 11 days she claims she worked on the show, she says they inappropriately spoke to her, including asking her if 'she likes to suck dicks' and if she was 'knocked up' when she felt ill, pinched and tickled her, and made offensive comments in her presence, like calling another judge a 'faggot.'"

Gian's the only one who's never been in the bottom. He's quiet and doesn't get a lot of screen time, but I don't remember him being an ass, either. Nikki and Ryan have 2 bottom placements and Kelly and Nate have 3. I'd love to see Kelly kill it but I'm afraid she's on the bubble. The only thing that would irk me is Nikki being one of the finalists, just because of her sullen, loudmouthed attitude.

The fire breathing, lightning, electric guitar and tiara are awesome, but the best part of the thunder c graphic is that they blurred out the tiger's eyes. Now none of us will recognize her in the wild!

The new president at my company has banned telecommuting for anyone who lives within 90 minutes of the office. Shades of Yahoo. About 60% of employees work remotely. I'm safely five states away, but 90 minutes in the DC metro area traffic seems cruel and unusual.

Why was Willam stuffing his bra with cookies, I wonder. Ah, the mysteries of drag. Of course I went straight to Amazon to browse Chuck Tingle's works. I'd love to see the cover art for Chris' butt stuff book. Please write it. I don't know how the show passed up this title: "Slammed In The Butt By Domald Tromp's Attempt To Avoid Accusations Of Plagiarism By Removing All Facts Or Concrete Plans From His Republican National Convention Speech" Did we know about Chris' new NBC prime time game show?

It would make my day if someone referred to me as my cat's servant! "Room is ready for Zelda's pooper scooper."

I know I'm in the minority but I roll my mental eyes pretty hard when I'm waiting at the vet's and the assistant comes out and calls the name of my cat. Yes, she's the patient but it's not like she's going to trot into the exam room by herself. Call me, please. While I'm being unreasonable, I also dislike being referred to as the "mom." I did not give birth to my cat. She's not my child or baby or furbaby. While my actions towards her may be seen as guardianship, for purposes of city ordinances, I'm her owner and would prefer to leave it at that.

Phone cards! I'd forgotten about that "convenience." For some unremembered reason, I had local phone service but not long distance for a time and needed to punch in around 20 numbers to make a call, not to mention maybe running out of minutes.

Here's the spreadsheet with reasons.

Plus she's not a man. Most of the "why this happened" recriminatory think pieces fail to mention it. Isn't it just as reasonable as economic anxiety to explain why former rust-belt Obama supporters changed their votes this time? Perhaps even unconsciously? The widespread hate and rape threats against female Ghostbusters and female gamers are only two well-known examples. Never underestimate misogyny.

I wouldn't mind the show taking more of a turn to the "talk" side of the equation, as long as guests are from the political or non-fiction arena. I absolutely wouldn't want an extended parade of movie-pushing celebrities. The extra guests seems to be at the expense of the correspondent segments, which I'm okay with. I like many of their remote stand up set pieces, but it makes me uncomfortable to see oblivious interview subjects being put on the spot and mocked. I wouldn't mind having those be very infrequent.

Isn't it a little late to be worried about that now, nitwit? The thousands of hours of Trump coverage for the last 18 months will never not stick in my craw. Let's not forget Fox, CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC ignoring HRC's campaign speech in Las Vegas in favor of live coverage of an empty podium as Trump was scheduled to speak.

Bah on "rules" for what time of day it's okay to eat specific foods. I ordered a chicken salad sandwich at 7am at Bob Evans last week and the waitress couldn't hide her surprise. Pfft. If breakfast for dinner is a thing, toasted bread and chicken for breakfast can also be a thing. Donuts, muffins and pastries are acceptable for breakfast but pie isn't? Screw that. I have never been much of a drinker; I'll maybe have a mimosa a couple times a year. I'm currently on my third box of wine since the election and my sister gave me a raised eyebrow when she came over and I was having a glass at 8am. Listen, I'm retired. I'm not going anywhere and certainly not driving. Two glasses of wine a day isn't going to impair me. SO SHUT UP. I've never understood drinking only after 5pm. Except sometimes at lunch. Or Sunday brunch. Or watching sports in the afternoon.

That's a terrific article, thanks.

Oy. My list of boycotted celebrities is gonna be yuuge. They're in the same business as Trump -- promoting themselves and protecting their public personas so troop to the White House they will. Those who decline will not publicize that for fear of harassment and blowback.

I agree that Cruz understands nothing, but there are people agitating to undermine the electoral college

The Republicans trying to pass laws against protestors make me choke on my own bile. Their candidate shruggingly suggested that his supporters riot if he lost, and specifically said they should "knock the crap" out of protestors at his rallies. How can anyone possibly be surprised or disappointed that he hasn't decried the rise in hate crimes? He's tickled at the thought of people punching perceived enemies in his name. Is there a citation for this? Higbie said on Fox News that internment camps are a precedent for establishing a Muslim registry but I haven't seen anything more than that.

Nate Silver was a guest on The Daily Show this week and I had to turn away. What a cluck. This sarcastic article about Silver and the rise data journalism sums it up for me: "It was barely eight years ago, during Obama’s candidacy that promised to Change All Reality Forever. The Republicans had pulled paper bags over their heads and declared that it was night everywhere. Suddenly, towering above all other pundits was the Math Wizard himself, Supreme Mugwump of Stats, Nate Silver. The man had come from statistics, and poker, and proved to be a deft hand at both. Silver stared over the punditocracy, and said to them, You lot have been eating scorpions and hallucinating that you have some insight into politics. I am Nate Silver, and I shall never die. That is a slight paraphrase."

@dusang, I'm the weasel-caller. I think Silver has become overtaken by self-importance and is unbearably smug. I used weasel in the sense of him trying to backtrack now because he was wrong. From Wikipedia: "After Silver successfully called the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, he was named one of The World's 100 Most Influential People by Time in 2009." I think he bought into his own hype and am glad his hubris has taken a hit.

Wow, @sum, thanks for that! I hadn't heard about it but it sounds very encouraging.

Just in passing, PolitiFact has critics who point out the site's own opinion biases and refusal to retract or change ratings when proven to be incorrect. The bigger problem is that local or even national news sources use PolitiFact as proof without doing their own fact checking. Watchdog.org calls out some of it. Interesting article in the Columbia Journalism Review calling for the return of the journalist as malcontent. "Journalism’s fundamental failure in this election, its original sin, is much more basic to who we are and what we are supposed to be. Simply put, it is rooted in a failure of reporting."

Regarding Barron -- remember a young Andrew Giuliana acting like a brat at his father's inauguration and no one trying to stop him? He grew up to sue Duke Univ for dismissing him from the golf team. I try to remember that there are two groups of Trump voters --those who know he's incompetent and appalling but voted for him anyway and those who believe/cheer for every lie and demeaning comment out of his mouth. I'm hopeful about the former but there's no convincing the latter. And there are so many of them. So many.

Moved over from the Trump thread. Some accountability would be nice, right? Sadly, 90% of what the broadcast new media do these days is regurgitate one-sided press releases and then quote each other about those reports. Once in a while figureheads like Brian Williams or 60 Minutes/Dan Rather get punished, but it's rare. If I wasn't concerned for his mental health, I'd love Jon Stewart to come back with a weekly show that focused on how badly the media is failing us, particularly the 24 hour news channels. He could do it from his house in jeans and beard!

The problem with reporting on the security clearances is that, AS USUAL, conflicting reports were issued by Trump's camp. Yesterday, Trump tweeted* that it's not true. Why didn't he say that before? Also, please. His tweets are the least accurate source of information around. My guess is either that Trump's team (not him) saw the alarmed writing on the wall and made him back off, or they're going to try to do it without the public finding out. * Because he doesn't have the patience, temperament, or intellect to hold press conferences or face the non-Fox media directly.