Of course, we won’t be able to place Klara on N’s insurance because my state insurance won’t give me a letter stating that we lost coverage. We are considered covered by the state even though we are not in any sense that matters. 

The HR person I talked to started getting aggressive with me and saying things like, “Rauner is YOUR governor, so you’ve got to live with it.” I don’t know in what sense he is my governor if I’m not a citizen and never voted. Plus, I’m the only person I know who’s been speaking out against Rauner publicly and consistently for years. The HR person can’t know that but I resent the assumption that I’m somehow to blame for any of this. 

It was dumb of me to place Klara on my insurance back in February. Super dumb. Enormously dumb. Monica sucks but not as much as Clarissa. 

People, a super hilarious NY TIMES article for your reading pleasure. A Republican says that the GOP will have to change to recover from Trump. And in describing the direction in which it should change. . . he lists a bunch of things the party always maintained and Trump agrees with. 

Let’s change by embracing immanence. Totally makes sense. 

It’s beginning to seem that everybody is secretly grateful to Trump for giving them a reason to say the word “pussy” all day and every day for a week. 

“There was an 11-year-old girl who told our staff, and she said this completely unsolicited, she was talking about Donald Trump’s words in campaign commercials,” [a television anchor interviewing Mike Pence] said, according to a transcript obtained by NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard. “She said this: ‘When I hear [Trump’s words about pussy] and look in the mirror, they make me feel bad about myself.’ And again, she said that totally unsolicited. What would you say to that little girl?”

I’d say to her that Mommy and Daddy are doing a piss-poor job if TV has more influence on her self-image than her parents. 

Nobody feels bad about themselves because of TV. It’s simply not how this works. And no, children don’t say this kind of thing unless they know it will please adults. 

Enough already with the pussy-mongering. This is getting totally out of hand. Where the f were all these self-righteous folks during all of the shit statements Trump’s been making for years? 

I called every pediatrician in town and nobody accepts my state insurance. Moreover, they don’t accept cash payments either. 

Now I will try to get Klara off my insurance and into N’s or we’ll end up with an unvaccinated baby. I wonder what people who don’t have a spouse on a private insurance plan are supposed to do. 

I’m getting increasingly worried about Michelle Obama’s speechifying. The election is pretty much decided. Why is she amping up the speeches now, when they are no longer needed?

I’m afraid she does have hopes for a political future, and that’s bad. We don’t need yet another woman sleeping her way into politics. All of her feminist speeches are worthless if her central message is that the best starter position for an aspiring female politician is still on her back.