Jim Acosta was doing his job

Donald J. Trump, in his first press conference since July, did his thing, including calling out CNN (and Buzzfeed) for “fake news,” and then refusing to call on Jim Acosta, senior White House correspondent of CNN (you can watch it above). (Acosta later said a Trump spokesman threatened to expel him.) Here’s the thing. In …

Manterrupted!

OK. I laughed. I hope you did, too.

An ode to a coat

My winter coat had long been a joke between my husband and me. It was black and nondescript, though my husband called it ugly. I bought it maybe 15 years ago for $40 — a steal, considering that at the time I’d been looking at the high-tech stuff at LL Bean and North Face. Instead, I …

No, really. Where are the Republican email leaks?

Reading all of Hillary Clinton’s leaked campaign emails is fascinating. You get to see the inner workings and read people as they probably really are in real-life, when the rest of us also-rans aren’t watching them in public. But I have to ask: Why do we not have a similar data dump of Republican emails? …

Americans disapprove of Muslims, atheists, and people who don’t proclaim a religion

But not necessarily in that order. A study out of University of Minnesota looked at how Americans viewed various groups, and found that: Americans’ disapproval of Muslims has jumped to 45.5 percent from just over 26 percent 10 years ago, the last time the question was asked. In all, the survey revealed some fairly hateful, unloving …

So this happened…

…I am driving home and there is a line of cars, which isn’t unusual post-Labor Day as we all get back to our daily grind which includes being in a line of cars, pretty much anywhere we’re going. Where are we all going, I wonder? I can’t speak for everyone, but my line of cars …

So in this week’s news…

I started the week by tossing my iPad off our boat, into the ocean — well, the Long Island Sound — well, the Mystic River, which feeds into the Sound, which then feeds into the ocean. I was stepping from beneath the canvas that covers the back part, caught my glasses on the fabric, and …

So what will we do on Nov. 9?

It strikes me — and I’m as guilty as the day is long — that it’s going to be an interesting day, Nov. 9, no matter who wins (I know who I’m voting for). Those of us (did I mention I’m guilty as the day is long?) who’ve been in the trenches indulging in slap …

Did democracy die the week of July 16?

This Slate article says yes. Yascha Mounk writes: The week of July 11, 2016, has every chance of being remembered as one of those rare flurries of jumbled, inchoate, concentrated significance. The centrifugal forces that are threatening to break political systems across the world may have started to register a decade ago; they may have …

#MoreThanMean

You’ve probably seen these or read about them. I can attest that the comments/tweets/social commentary that comes to women can be incredibly hateful, hurtful, and stupid. Why do people do this? What do they hope to accomplish? Surely they understand that if a woman (the targets are so frequently women writers) have reached a level …