As a Seattle liberal, I'm perplexed.

My roommate Marguie is still--at this late date--a Hillary supporter. I've been wracking my brains to figure out why, and throwing every argument in the book at her, but nothing has fazed her.

Then she told me she met Ms. Clinton when she was in college. And then I totally understood. Meeting political candidates in person (at least partly because serious political candidates are, it goes without saying, breathtakingly charismatic), if they're in your party, can lead to irrational, undying, goose-stepping loyalty.

Seriously. If I met Barack Obama tomorrow, I would probably be writing him in as a candidate in every election from now until the time I die, even if I outlive him by decades. Also I'd have embarrassing Obama tattoos.

Judge Judy

I have always disliked Judge Judy. Her show reminds me of a cross between "People's Court", where the idjits of the world make me cower and cringe in embarrassment for them because they present their cases in this misguided, fucked-up, pseudo-legalese CREOLE ("Well your honor at that point I proceeded to proceed to my vehicle and open the vehicle door and position myself in the driver's seat at which point I proceeded to insert the ignition key and turn it to start the ignition and proceed to exit the surrounding area of the premises"), instead of just telling the damned story clearly ("And then I got in my car and left"), and Laura Schlessinger, who is the meanest bitch who ever masqueraded as a caring person wanting to help people who actually get up the nerve to seek SOME sort of counseling.

But thanks to the wonderful staff of Jezebel, who screens through all the Judge Judy dreck and posts only the good parts, saving me a lot of time, I am now a fan.

Missing people

I got one of those "Have you seen me?" cards in the mail today and it features Ms. Donnis Redman, who has been missing since 1958. Fifty years. They have an age-progressed photo (she would be 64), but I'm guessing she's probably dead.

A Juna Shatner Paroli Esperanto

Hottest thing ever? Quite possibly.

A most unlikely hero

I hereby take back everything I've ever said about Foghorn Matthews. Except that he sounds like a foghorn.

Hooray for California!

Now that the California Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right, George Takei is getting married to his partner of 21 years, Brad Altman. Isn't that great?

Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall were in Seattle on Thursday for their reunion tour. The whole show was great, and the Gavin sketch was hilarious:

"Religion is for stupid people. It gives them something to do that isn't scratching lottery tickets. If you kinda think about it, it's sorta the same thing."

What he said

Here's a truly spectacular rant by Keith Olbermann. I love Love LOVE it when he does these special comments, and this time he outdoes himself.

How I learned to walk

I have a twin sister who walked way before I did. There are even home movies of me crawling around everywhere and Anna toddling—my favorite was always one where she takes my bottle and tries to walk off with it and I grab her ankle and down she goes, and I take it back. Apparently I could crawl really fast in all directions, but I wouldn’t walk without holding on to something or someone’s hands. ANYWAY one day our parents had a party and they were serving some sort of homemade wine cooler or something and I was tugging on someone’s leg for a sip, and one of my parents said “Sure, she can have a little sip” and then like half an hour later I got up and RAN across the room. So someone goes “Haha, it must have been the drink I gave her” and then someone else said “Oh, I gave her one too!” and apparently like 15 people had let me have sips of their drinks.

(This WAS like 40 years ago. They let kids have drags off cigarettes then, too.)

Happy Mother's Day from the McCains

I don't know which I like better, the 27 bottles of scotch or the 1950s Disney nature documentary soundtrack.