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One bathroom says, "No Men Allowed" and the other bathroom says " No Women Allowed".

Oh, and I'm 62 years old. Do I get to wear the dunce cap?

I just got the joke!

I'm on it, Moby!

If you're comparing him to Summers, it makes perfect sense to say he had no position of power.

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Sure, you can criticize Kamala for that, but Obama did the same thing choosing Biden to be his VP.

You kind of imagine them deciding on her, because she was the option least likely to enrage Trump.

Good job not pointing that out!😀

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You read my mind! Also had the thought, "Is he making this up?" It was great!

Good point!

I was going to say that I also have no personal memory of the Elizabethan stage when men played all of the women's roles, but there is also an old although relatively recent tradition of women playing Hamlet.

c) proves that you are a true scholar.

I'm in my 60s and I'm kind if amazed how much I still hear music from when I was a teenager. I would never have expected to be still hearing REO Speedwagon at the supermarket 40 years later.

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This is slander! We also know the Huxtables.

Are you a lumberjack? If not, that might be a career option to consider

I think you could do this with just about any politician. For example, Reagan and Obama both had the luck to be running for President for the opposition party during an economic crisis, and it's plausible that this is the only circumstance in which they could have been elected

We don't usually translate names in titles. The Mozart opera is known as Don Giovanni, not Don Juan.

Bambi has a red nose too?

The highest level of deservedness is a noisy stupid white man accused of sexual assault. That person is qualified for any job.

I suppose it would be inappropriate for you to reply, "You must have me confused with Ross Douthat."

Basically the pattern is that we find out something terrible about Trump that would normally end a politician's career. Then it turns out his fans still love him. And the undecideds that maybe turned against him forget about it after a while.

I kind of disagree. There's hardly any wriggling involved at all.

The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.

But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.

The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.

Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

I saw a ballet interpretation of The Idiot.

An hour??? You really do live in an ivory tower. They could get the amount of information they want in 5 minutes of reading, maybe 10 if they are slow readers. Most likely haven't spent an hour reading about policy in their whole lives.

Truthfully, if not for the current circumstance, I would assume this is a joke.