The Sex Parties

Our New York tour of Trump's boyhood home was Olivia's idea. What we had planned to cover got postponed, and Denise had to return to California a day early for her daughter's graduation, leaving us with an unexpected content gap. June is hectic that way, juggling work and kids; our plans kept changing by the day.

Listen now | To get this episode into your new premium RSS feed, please click the button below from your phone: So here we are, freed from the shackles of Patreon, having sprinted into the welcoming arms of Substack, and ready to deliver our first weekly Members Only dispatch. Yay! And you’re in for a treat, dear citizens of the Fifdom. Many of you have requested that we address the

Miracles of indigenous science Why is Matt talking about Kevin Costner so much? Aaron Sorkin solves January 6th Norm on Bob Uecker Matt revisits his…bad night The Biden sitch James Carville on masculinity and “communities of color” How do you guys manage to watch this crap?

& a New Year's Journaling Challenge

Sunday, June 30, 2024

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Plus, our neurodivergent President

Winning is Losing

I strongly dislike holidays pegged to a specific date. When they float around, they cause chaos. Take this week in the U.S.: July 4th lands on a Thursday. It’s a national holiday, so most (but certainly not all) people have it off. But the the celebration itself is

To say that President Biden’s performance on the debate stage last night was calamitous is merely to state what everyone, partisan and not, has already understood. What the world witnessed was not a debate, but a failed neurological exam. One wonders how anyone close to the President imagined he could bluff his way through it.

To say that President Biden’s performance on the debate stage last night was calamitous is merely to state what everyone, partisan and not, has already understood. What the world witnessed was not a debate, but a failed neurological exam. One wonders how anyone close to the President imagined he could bluff his way through it.

Thank you for inspiring us all

Doing the right thing

"Wet Putty" whips are everywhere. What’s behind it? ... a BBSP investigation

The cursed, the blessed, and the Mach 3+ of Paris

Revisiting Joe Alwyn.

Searching for a "signature scent" with the funniest person on Substack.

I’m still processing my birth, but I wanted to document it before the details slipped and I started hand-waving it away like a bad dream. In those early weeks, I cried whenever I thought or spoke about it. I wanted so badly to feel differently—to love the way she got here, even if it was difficult. I’m less delicate (and hormonal) about it now, but I still don’t think I’m there yet.

Plus, explaining my tattoo (and other stuff)

Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it! 📺 “Uncoupled” on Netflix: Michael (Neil Patrick Harris) has been with his partner for 17 years, when he is unceremoniously, suddenly dumped. From there, he has to navigate an entirely new dating landscape in New York that calls to mind another breezy show from the same creator (Darren Star),

Assemble your nest with care.

The ERO has launched "a focussed evaluation to specifically look at the emotional and physical safety of all students.”

We need to talk about that presidential debate.

Harrison Butker’s remarks on women aren't fringe—they're the law

7.1.24

My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propaganda

George Jarkesy is an entrepreneur and investor, who was accused of fraud in 2011 by the SEC. Without an investigation even having concluded, the SEC's action against him led to a press release destroying his reputation and led to his being "debanked", in essence, by Chase, by the bank that held his IRA, by credit card companies, and insurers, and hampered at every turn. Had he settled with the SEC, which eventually found him guilty in a secretive process run by a judge that is employed BY the SEC, he would never have even been able to tell his children his side of the story. Instead of giving in to a Kafkaesque "judge, jury and executioner" scenario, that Jarkesy believed violated his Seventh Amendment right to due process of law, Jarkesy fought; and this 13-year fight for due process and transparency, resulted in a major win at the Supreme Court last week. From now on, those accused by the SEC will have a right to a fair trial outside of the SEC itself, with access to due process of law.

Last fall, my wife Debbie and I got a puppy named Maximus Toretto Blueberry Millman Gay. He is six months old. He weighs 7.5 pounds. He is confident, outgoing, and sweet. He enjoys eating paper, leaves, disgusting trash, and murky street water. He is not interested in food unless you are eating it, and then he is very interested. When Max realizes he is…

Our July Selection

Matt James' season comes to its inevitably depressing end.

And more urgent takeaways from Netflix's docuseries on the cult of the most iconic cheerleading squad in pro sports.

you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do

Sigh. When I gave the reading assignment last week, I said Chapter Nine and Chapter Ten, but as several of you pointed out, the chapter is titled “Gawain’s First Reverie.” Luckily, the chapter that follows is numbered Chapter Ten, so hopefully this wasn’t confusing for you all. Less defensible is how short this week’s reading was. In my defen…

The Case for Codependency

The Case for Codependency

A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)

“Orange Man Bad” might be accurate, but it doesn’t work as a campaign slogan in 2024

Hey everyone, First off, I owe you an explanation. You might have noticed that I’ve not been updating this Substack as frequently over the last few months. It's not because I've run out of things to say about the current state of women’s rights, free speech and comedy! If only! Rather, I've been putting the finishing touches on my memoir, ‘Tough Crowd’.

Monday 24th June - Labour Losing Women THE TIMES: The Labour Party, should it win the general election, will introduce self-ID legislation in all but name and erase the vital spousal exit provision from the gender recognition process. We have reported previously on

Bobblehead! Bobblehead! Bob-bob-bobblehead!

Also: SOMEBODY HUG MARCUS.

Jurist silenced by elite Stanford Law mob explains why it matters for democracy

And: Charles Taylor; Renaud Camus; The Ben Op (Again); Ignatius Reilly As Clausewitz

In early 2004, a few weeks before Sherrod and I were married, I wrote a column about my search for the gay couples who were trying to undermine our heterosexual marriage. Far-right, self-proclaimed Christians were insisting this was a thing, as if strategic flirting could coax a straight person to burst into glorious gay bloom. In that same year, the Bible Belt had the highest divorce rate in the country, and Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage was already legal, had the lowest.

I almost let this day slide by, until I couldn't

a big L

"no one understands a woman in her 20s like billy joel"